Job summary
I am looking for a motivated and inspiring leader to take on the role of Associate Director of people for Good Hope Hospital. This is a great opportunity to help shape our people strategy, support our leaders and ensure staff have the best possible experience at work. You'll play a key role driving inclusion, engagement, workforce development as well as overseeing and investigating complex employee relations cases where lessons need to be learnt.
Interested? For an informal conversation please contact my PA, Tara O'Donnell (Tara.O'Donnell@uhb.nhs.uk) who will be happy to help arrange a suitable time.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to Group-wide People strategies and represent the Hospital Site at relevant forums.
Lead on the development and implementation of Hospital workforce plans.
Effectively tailor and deploy the agreed Group strategies to support the Hospital and Group to become a great place to work.
Enable People, Quality and Inclusion strategies, with an emphasis on staff and patient-led improvements for high engagement and sustainability.
Working in close collaboration with Occupational Health and well being, promote and support staff well being within the Hospital.
Work closely with other Hospital Associate Directors of People and Hospital leaders to introduce new, flexible roles and ways of working, putting workforce redesign at the heart of service transformation.
Lead the effective development of leadership and people management capability across the Hospital, so that staff are recruited, inducted, cared for, appropriately managed, effectively deployed, retained, developed professionally and their concerns elicited and resolved in a timely and effective manner.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of Trust policy and ensure excellent implementation.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
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*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * CIPD qualified.
- * Educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent level of experience.
- * Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
- * Desirable to have a mediation qualification.
Experience
Essential
- * Experience in a senior HR and OD position.
- * Proven track record of achievement in a complex, people-facing organisation.
- * Significant employee relations experience including undertaking highly complex and contentious investigations.
- * Experience in leading diverse services and programmes across different functions, and leading and facilitating stakeholders through major change.
- * Experience of building workforce plans and new workforce models that are underpinned by robust quantitative workforce analysis.
- * Proven ability to evaluate and optimise business cases and to construct effective business models for service delivery.
- * Strong track record in promoting and delivering organisational change.
- * A thorough understanding of modern HR and OD theory and practice.
- * Excellent working knowledge of current employment law, including experience in employment tribunals.
- * Strong grasp for diversity & inclusion issues, including legislative requirements.
- * Proven track record in whistleblowing practice and responding to concerns raised within the legislative and speaking up frameworks
- * Experience of managing industrial relations in a multi-union environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * CIPD qualified.
- * Educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent level of experience.
- * Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
- * Desirable to have a mediation qualification.
Experience
Essential
- * Experience in a senior HR and OD position.
- * Proven track record of achievement in a complex, people-facing organisation.
- * Significant employee relations experience including undertaking highly complex and contentious investigations.
- * Experience in leading diverse services and programmes across different functions, and leading and facilitating stakeholders through major change.
- * Experience of building workforce plans and new workforce models that are underpinned by robust quantitative workforce analysis.
- * Proven ability to evaluate and optimise business cases and to construct effective business models for service delivery.
- * Strong track record in promoting and delivering organisational change.
- * A thorough understanding of modern HR and OD theory and practice.
- * Excellent working knowledge of current employment law, including experience in employment tribunals.
- * Strong grasp for diversity & inclusion issues, including legislative requirements.
- * Proven track record in whistleblowing practice and responding to concerns raised within the legislative and speaking up frameworks
- * Experience of managing industrial relations in a multi-union environment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
