Job summary
Take the next and best step in your career within the people profession and join one of the largest NHS Trusts in England as Deputy Group Executive Director of Workforce & Corporate Business. A high profile and visible role reporting to the Group Executive Director of Workforce & Corporate Business, you will drive the development, implementation and evaluation of the People Plan and related strategies. Creating an inclusive working environment ensuring all people activities actively promote inclusion, diversity, and equality.
With the ability to build high performing, cohesive teams, inspiring and motivating others, bringing people alongside. You will support the implementation of talent management, succession planning and leadership development processes to ensure that the organisation is building leadership capability for delivery now and in the future. What's more, you will act as a champion for our patients, their interests and ensure that both patient and public voice is part of the design and delivery of people interventions.
So, let us tell you more about what we are looking for and how your skills can wow us, helping you decide if this is the next and best move in your career.
Main duties of the job
- As both an established leader with influence and personal credibility alongside significant senior experience within the people profession in a complex NHS organisation, you will deputise for the Group Executive Director of Workforce & Corporate Business across the full range of their duties.
- An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will work with and support key stakeholders to develop approaches to recruitment, people transformation planning and role design in support of the strategy.
- You will lead and motivate others with your strong influencing skills, as you drive the delivery of innovative people transformation strategies across the organisation and contribute to the work of the GM Trust Provider Collaborative.
- Moreover, with a compassionate and caring leadership style, you will deliver visible leadership within the function in partnership with the Group Executive Director of Workforce & Corporate Business and other senior staff.
- With significant experience of leading teams across a variety of disciplines within the people profession, you will ensure the required workforce transformation planning capability and systems are in place to enable reliable workforce planning and operational delivery.
- It goes without saying, you will maintain high standards of personal integrity, and you will be passionate about improving staff experience and getting things right for our people.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke 'Candidate Information Pack' which provides specific information about the role and the Assessment and Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service Manager Sinad Gamble, via email sinead.gamble@mft.nhs.uk.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke 'Candidate Information Pack' which provides specific information about the role and the Assessment and Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service Manager Sinad Gamble, via email sinead.gamble@mft.nhs.uk.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifiations - Academic / Professional
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent.
- Fellow/Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Skills, Knowledge Requirements & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior experience within the people profession in a complex NHS organisation.
- Recognised leader with influence and personal credibility.
- Track record of defining and delivering people strategies.
- Significant experience of leading teams across a variety of disciplines within the people profession.
- Demonstrable experience improving organisational effectiveness through quantifiable performance.
- Experience of leading and delivering change.
- Evidence of working effectively as a senior leader.
- Advanced detailed knowledge of employment law.
- Detailed understanding of different ways to measure the implementation and impact of initiatives.
- Advanced practical knowledge of staff engagement, talent management and employee relations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to lead and motivate others, strong influencing skills.
- Able to assess priorities and make decisions, give leadership and direction.
- Able to lift above the operational day to day and think strategically.
- Able to cope under pressure and work to ambitious deadlines.
- Able to work collaboratively and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- Able to demonstrate a compassionate and kind leadership style.
- Able to challenge and promote new ways of working, encouraging a culture of care for others.
- Able to build high performing, cohesive teams, inspiring and motivating others, takes people with them.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable team player.
- Self-motivated, energetic, flexible.
- Passionate about improving staff experience and getting things right for our people.
- Presence, commands respect.
- Personal resilience, self-awareness, determination to succeed.
- High standards of personal integrity.
- Confident and dynamic.
Person Specification
Qualifiations - Academic / Professional
Essential
- Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent.
- Fellow/Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Skills, Knowledge Requirements & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior experience within the people profession in a complex NHS organisation.
- Recognised leader with influence and personal credibility.
- Track record of defining and delivering people strategies.
- Significant experience of leading teams across a variety of disciplines within the people profession.
- Demonstrable experience improving organisational effectiveness through quantifiable performance.
- Experience of leading and delivering change.
- Evidence of working effectively as a senior leader.
- Advanced detailed knowledge of employment law.
- Detailed understanding of different ways to measure the implementation and impact of initiatives.
- Advanced practical knowledge of staff engagement, talent management and employee relations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to lead and motivate others, strong influencing skills.
- Able to assess priorities and make decisions, give leadership and direction.
- Able to lift above the operational day to day and think strategically.
- Able to cope under pressure and work to ambitious deadlines.
- Able to work collaboratively and build relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- Able to demonstrate a compassionate and kind leadership style.
- Able to challenge and promote new ways of working, encouraging a culture of care for others.
- Able to build high performing, cohesive teams, inspiring and motivating others, takes people with them.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrable team player.
- Self-motivated, energetic, flexible.
- Passionate about improving staff experience and getting things right for our people.
- Presence, commands respect.
- Personal resilience, self-awareness, determination to succeed.
- High standards of personal integrity.
- Confident and dynamic.
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).
