Job summary
The Deputy People & OD (POD) Lead will be a core member of the newly created People services team and will work under the leadership of the POD Lead in partnership with the operational management teams and leaders, providing operational advice and specialist
Our whole ethos is to provide a customer focused quality service to the trust business units and corporate departments through the provision of the following:
- Expert people advice and guidance (strategic and operational) to business units and services across the trust.
- Core employee relations and case management advice and support.People data and information including reporting, ESR, Health Roster and Bank services.
- Recruitment and retention including expert temporary staffing sourcing (all clinical professions).
- Medical Staffing advice and support.
- Employee health and wellbeing services, including Occupational Health.
- Organisational development including leadership, team development and staff engagement strategy.
- Learning and development including training, multi professional education and library services.
- People planning and development.
Main duties of the job
The People and OD Directorate (POD) is responsible for developing people strategies, policy, practice, and delivering P&OD services which support strategic objectives, improve staff engagement, comply with legislation, and support organisational culture development and the embedding of organisational values.
- Employee relations
- Operational management
- Policy and service development
- Workforce planning
- Performance & Governance
- Leadership
- Staff training and development
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
In summary the post holder will:
- Be forward thinking, operationally minded and informed by data to enable them to pro-actively partner operational colleague in their business area in providing effective operational people support.
- Support the POD lead to work alongside operational management teams within their designated Business Units and Corporate Directorates to deliver the whole people and OD agenda.
- Act as an internal operational consultant for the Business Units and/or Corporate Directorates as well as a critical friend spending the majority of your time on operational tasks and working through other people and OD operational teams to ensure operational issues runs smoothly, ensuring an effective two way flow of information in order to build intelligence.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the People and OD team and will embrace a one team ethos, continually supporting team development and challenging the status quo to ensure a consistent, value adding People and OD provision to leaders and colleagues to support and enable Business Units and Corporate Directorates as key customers
Job description
Job responsibilities
In summary the post holder will:
- Be forward thinking, operationally minded and informed by data to enable them to pro-actively partner operational colleague in their business area in providing effective operational people support.
- Support the POD lead to work alongside operational management teams within their designated Business Units and Corporate Directorates to deliver the whole people and OD agenda.
- Act as an internal operational consultant for the Business Units and/or Corporate Directorates as well as a critical friend spending the majority of your time on operational tasks and working through other people and OD operational teams to ensure operational issues runs smoothly, ensuring an effective two way flow of information in order to build intelligence.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across the People and OD team and will embrace a one team ethos, continually supporting team development and challenging the status quo to ensure a consistent, value adding People and OD provision to leaders and colleagues to support and enable Business Units and Corporate Directorates as key customers
Person Specification
Educational
Essential
- Professional CIPD Human Resources qualification.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a HR related subject or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.
Desirable
- Mentorship or Coaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of HR policies and procedures and associated employment law and cases
- Ability to build effective and trusting business partnering relationships
- Strong communication skills to establish good working relationships with leaders and colleagues
- Ability to work at an operational level developing new business and HR solutions to meet business need.
Person Specification
Educational
Essential
- Professional CIPD Human Resources qualification.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a HR related subject or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of recent and on-going continuous professional and personal development.
Desirable
- Mentorship or Coaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of HR policies and procedures and associated employment law and cases
- Ability to build effective and trusting business partnering relationships
- Strong communication skills to establish good working relationships with leaders and colleagues
- Ability to work at an operational level developing new business and HR solutions to meet business need.
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).
