Jenny Hargrave, Head of Workforce Strategy, NHS Professionals

Jenny has over 25 years experience in direct clinical healthcare; she started her career in healthcare as a General and Paediatric Nurse before progressing to Clinical Nurse Manager level and for the last 13 years, Jenny has been working in the field of nursing and healthcare temporary staffing.

After working for 4 years in the commercial nursing and care agency sector at Regional Manager level, Jenny joined NHS Professionals (NHSP) in 2002 as General Manager of the newly established Paddington Service (hosted by St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust). During her time at NHSP, Jenny has progressed to Head of Client Relations and has also undertaken secondments as Head of Clinical Governance, Head of Interim Nursing and most recently spent six months with the NHS Workforce Review Team in a consultancy role leading on flexible workforce.

Since returning to NHS Professionals in April 2010 as Head of Client Relations - South, Jenny has focussed on exploring and developing flexible workforce strategies that have enabled NHSP to align its service to the wider NHS workforce strategies. Jenny’s work in this field has led to recent recognition and appointment to a new role of Head of Workforce Strategy.