Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to join a forward thinking People and OD team who are on a journey to deliver excellence in people practice? If so, we would love to hear from you. Following an extensive review of the People and OD Directorate, we are delighted to have secured funding to invest in our team, equipping us to deliver the aspirations of the People Plan, our ambition of providing a high-quality customer focused service, and ensuring the things we need to do, we do well. We are delighted to be recruiting to a Head of People Planning, Performance and Quality, on an 12 month maternity cover, reporting directly to our Deputy Director of People and OD, working alongside our other three Heads of, to collectively form our People and OD Directorate Senior Leadership Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, forward thinking individual to take a significant leadership role in the development of our people strategy, in line with the People Plan, whilst also being the a senior lead for defined areas of responsibility. As an equal team of 4, you will also deputise for the Deputy Director and sometimes Director as needed. You will work closely not just as the directorate leadership team, but also with newly created People and OD Teams, supporting business units and corporate departments to deliver a comprehensive and customer focused service to our operational colleagues and 4500 strong workforce across the trust and subsidiary companies.
Main duties of the job
As a corporate, specialist you will provide expert advice and guidance to the People and OD Teams (particularly building shared capability), senior operational colleagues and professional leads, as we continue to refresh our services across the trust. The successful candidate will set standards and drive improvements in their specialist areas and provide assurance on a range of core people functions within each area. We are seeking candidates who have the compassion, energy, enthusiasm, commitment and skills to play a key role in the delivery of the People Plan and our local strategic objectives, which prioritise supporting our staff and our vision to be great organisation with a highly engaged workforce. This is a busy demanding job, in a fast paced environment but we're a great team and we have fun along the way! We're looking for someone with significant experience in this field, current knowledge of the NHS context and People Plan and much more! Most importantly though, we're looking for a colleague who will be highly visible, compassionate leaders with a natural ability to inspire and care for our people teams, motivating them and others to find sustainable solutions. This will need resilience and a solution focus, with a fresh approach and rigour to internal challenges to help us meet the needs of the communities we serve.
About us
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working closely with professional leads and other colleagues, you will lead and progress the development of a refreshed integrated approach to workforce planning, developing short and long term plans. You will champion an increased focus on talent and supply pipelines, maximising opportunities for new ways of working and innovative people solutions.
You will support directorate teams with a continuous improvement approach to their work and take a lead role in the administration of our people board level assurance committee, co-ordinating the provision of assurance to meet internal and external reporting requirements and management of people related risks.
Working closely with the Executive Director and Deputy Director of People and OD, you will also lead and coordinate our outcomes focused approach and our drive to be better informed by data, whilst continuing to build awareness and understanding of legislative, regulatory and sector standards across our people teams.
You will lead key corporate projects as well as taking a key role in transformation projects and the delivery of digitally enabled solutions.
With a focus on caring for our own directorate staff and getting the basics right, within your area of responsibility, you will lead the provision of excellent, customer focused services and reposition the specifics of the portfolio and the Trusts people strategy to realise the ambitions of the People Promise by 2024.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working closely with professional leads and other colleagues, you will lead and progress the development of a refreshed integrated approach to workforce planning, developing short and long term plans. You will champion an increased focus on talent and supply pipelines, maximising opportunities for new ways of working and innovative people solutions.
You will support directorate teams with a continuous improvement approach to their work and take a lead role in the administration of our people board level assurance committee, co-ordinating the provision of assurance to meet internal and external reporting requirements and management of people related risks.
Working closely with the Executive Director and Deputy Director of People and OD, you will also lead and coordinate our outcomes focused approach and our drive to be better informed by data, whilst continuing to build awareness and understanding of legislative, regulatory and sector standards across our people teams.
You will lead key corporate projects as well as taking a key role in transformation projects and the delivery of digitally enabled solutions.
With a focus on caring for our own directorate staff and getting the basics right, within your area of responsibility, you will lead the provision of excellent, customer focused services and reposition the specifics of the portfolio and the Trusts people strategy to realise the ambitions of the People Promise by 2024.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CIPD Human Resources Qualification
- Qualification experience/education to Masters level in an HR/Education related field.
- Advanced training/development within the Education, Learning and Development domain to give credibility as the specialist and senior leader.
- Chartered membership of the CIPD (Chartered MCIPD) or equivalent professional qualification in the field.
- Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.
- Significant senior operational HR management experience, within healthcare or a large, complex service-led industry, contributing to corporate leadership of an organisation.
Desirable
- Chartered Fellowship of the CIPD (Chartered FCIPD).
- Experience of working with Board level colleagues in an NHS (or public sector) environment.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in partnerships with trade unions and staff networks.
- Experience of leading, introducing and managing major People & OD change and development programmes to successful conclusions.
Skills
Essential
- Able to translate strategic goals into effective and achievable operational plans and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes.
- Can evidence good report writing skills, with the ability to provide clear and unambiguous advice, opinion and options appraisals.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CIPD Human Resources Qualification
- Qualification experience/education to Masters level in an HR/Education related field.
- Advanced training/development within the Education, Learning and Development domain to give credibility as the specialist and senior leader.
- Chartered membership of the CIPD (Chartered MCIPD) or equivalent professional qualification in the field.
- Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.
- Significant senior operational HR management experience, within healthcare or a large, complex service-led industry, contributing to corporate leadership of an organisation.
Desirable
- Chartered Fellowship of the CIPD (Chartered FCIPD).
- Experience of working with Board level colleagues in an NHS (or public sector) environment.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in partnerships with trade unions and staff networks.
- Experience of leading, introducing and managing major People & OD change and development programmes to successful conclusions.
Skills
Essential
- Able to translate strategic goals into effective and achievable operational plans and capable of monitoring their progress and outcomes.
- Can evidence good report writing skills, with the ability to provide clear and unambiguous advice, opinion and options appraisals.
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).
