Health Workforce Directorate

What we do

We seek to achieve the best health and care outcomes for people by providing human resources leadership and support for a skilled and sustainable health workforce in Scotland.

We are responsible for:

• leadership and talent management
• supporting staff wellbeing and working cultures
• medical education
• workforce planning
• pay, terms and conditions
• recruitment policy and strategy
• Whistleblowing policy – sponsorship of the Independent National Whistleblowing Officer for NHS Scotland
• Once for Scotland Workforce Policies
• Staff Experience – The National iMatter Continuous Improvement Model
• staff Governance Standard monitoring
• industrial relations and partnership working
• NHSScotland Settlement Agreements

Who we are

Cabinet Secretary and Ministers

Management