Workforce Planning and Deployment
1. Overview
Join the Met's Workforce Planning and Deployment team and support our long term resourcing plans.
Our team
Our Workforce Planning and Deployment team plays a crucial role in the service we give to London. Our objective is to ensure we're well resourced and equipped to meet our operational needs.
The team is essential for aligning the workforce strategy and driving the delivery of resources to manage our in-year deployment plan and long term resource plans. The team balances the supply of workforce resources for all our employees (around 11,000 staff and 35,000 officers) into more than 70 business units and operational units. This is in line with corporate priorities.
The team is structured to ensure a proactive, customer-centric service. It works closely with all other team members across Workforce Planning to bring valuable insights to the management teams across the many departments we advise.
How the team is structured
Operational Deployment
The Operational Deployment team is responsible for allocating resources to meet the demands of policing operations in the current year.
This team is responsible for working with local departments and services to identify and solve deployment issues. It makes police officer and staff posting decisions and engages with business partners to ensure the correct balance is struck between:
- immediate priorities
- budgets
- policy and legislation
- personal preferences
- career progression
- equality
Corporate Workforce Planning
This team is responsible for the delivery of forecasts and models for the resource plans up to five years. It manages the deployment of people in line with corporate priorities and balances the supply of workforce resources across the Met.
The team is responsible for ensuring the department is prepared for future challenges through:
- workforce forecasting
- scenario planning
- recruitment planning
- succession planning
This is a partnership with multiple functions across the Met, and is key to transforming the Met’s strategy into workforce plans.
Workforce Insights
Workforce Insights partners with the business to:
- identify opportunities for efficiencies in the current year
- validate metrics and levers used to inform resource plans
- ensure data integrity and security is observed for people data used within the team.
This team is also responsible for:
- assessing the performance of the current year's plan
- identifying trends and metrics that influence the business priorities and daily operations
- suggesting mitigating actions and making recommendations to course correct
Working for our team
Working with us will provide you the opportunity to be challenged in a fast paced, dynamic environment. You'll help deliver value to our many departments through continual improvements, while helping to improve the country’s largest and most globally renowned police force.