People Promise Manager

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

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Job summary

The People Promise Manager will be responsible for co-ordinating and embedding all aspects of the NHS People Promise into Shropshire Community Health Trust to improve staff experience and retention.

Our People Promise sets out what our NHS people can expect from their leaders and from each other. It focuses on how we must all continue to look after each other and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in the delivery of the People Plan and specifically the adoption of the NHS People Promise in Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust.

This role will be part of the People Directorate, reporting to the Associate Director of People, Employee Relations and Occupational Health.

All retention teams will work very closely together across national, regional, and local systems with a single focus to embed and live the values within the People Plan.

Main duties of the job

The People Promise Manager will work collaboratively across the organisation, ICS (Integrated Care Systems) and with other designated People Promise Managers to maximise opportunities to retain staff across the NHS and Social Care.

They will also have colleagues doing the same role in other organisations regionally and nationally to relate to and to offer and receive support.

As well as being embedded into the organisation's structure, the post holder will operate on a matrix basis , working closely with the ICS Retention SRO, and build strong relationships within the STW ICS and Midlands Region and colleagues in the National Retention Programme as required. It will be essential to pass vital information from their organisation to inform retention policy and changes in practice, as necessary.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Date posted

05 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

TBC

Job locations

Mount McKinley

Shrewsbury Business Park

Shrewsbury

SY2 6FG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level in specialist area OR Equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.

Experience

Essential

Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.

Skills

Essential

Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to masters level in specialist area OR Equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.

Experience

Essential

Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.

Skills

Essential

Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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