Job summary
- Main area
- Workforce, Training & Education
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: ESM1
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-S3-SW1306-A
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South West NHSE office
- Town
- Taunton
- Salary
- £100,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Strategic Workforce Planning, Supply and Innovation
Executives / VSM: ESM1
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a highly experienced individual, with extensive knowledge and expertise in HR and OD management and workforce transformation, who has a record of leading and supporting change, working within an organisation with multiple partners and ensuring the highest quality Human Resources and OD support to our senior team.
You will have a proven track record, working at a senior level in a HR&OD/Workforce leadership role in an organisation of similar scale and complexity whether within the NHS or wider public sector.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the leadership, development and oversight of workforce strategy, integrated workforce planning, increasing supply, professional workforce, HR and organisational development and redesign and innovation. Responsible for professional advice and leadership supporting the Director of Workforce Training and Education.
This will include supporting ICB’s
- Workforce strategy and planning
o develop workforce strategies / people plans that reflect local priorities and national policy, addressing health inequalities.
o assurance of local operational plans and other workforce activity to deliver the long-term workforce plan
o supporting operational planning rounds (multi-year) briefing systems / providing support sessions, including review of system planning returns
• Increase supply
o facilitate the development initiatives to increase workforce supply and availability including workforce productivity, inclusive domestic and international recruitment and reservists, temporary staffing
· Professional workforce, human resource management and organisational development
o Provision of professional advice and assurance of severance / remunerations, employment terms and conditions, role model and promote the development of HR & OD Futures - profession development
o provide professional oversight and assurance to support regional regulation and oversight procedures
o provide professional leadership advice and guidance to the Regional Director
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties of the job continued...
o Redesign and Innovation
• Support system development through organisational development techniques
• Inform service redesign, oversight and assurance of business cases
• Facilitate new ways of working, roles and new models of care, workforce development
• Support organisational change behaviours / culture
• Implementation of digital HR&OD tools/Digital Implementation
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents
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Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
- Chartered Fellow of CIPD
- Educated to Masters degree level, or equivalent experience in a related area (ie: HR; Employment Law)
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Significant people experience gained from working at Board level in an NHS organisation
- A high level of relevant professional, technical skills and knowledge of workforce, talent management and HR Excellent knowledge of relevant legal frameworks and regulations
- Analytical rigour coupled with pragmatic problemsolving in addressing complex situations. Ability to drive innovative approaches that can be implemented in the NHS.
- Demonstrable technical understanding of NHS providers, commissioners and systems In depth knowledge of NHS performance management and accountability frameworks
- Proven leadership skills and strategic thinker Highly developed negotiation and political skills and Experience of leading policy development in large complex NHS organisations awareness and experience of operating at Board level in an NHS environment or organisation
- Good communicator and leader of change
- Proven experience at a leadership level in delivering transformational change
- Ability to demonstrate, at a senior level, a range of leadership styles, influencing skills, sound judgement and flexibility to secure results
- A role model, demonstrating a high level of integrity and the ability to motivate others
- Personally values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness and as an inclusive leader
- Clear integrity and a commitment to maintaining the highest personal and professional standards, appropriate to the responsibilities attached to holding a senior position within a public body
- Excellent stakeholder relationship management at Board/Executive Director level
- Ability to build, nurture and set direction through stakeholder relationships across the regional dimensions
- The ability to influence to the most senior level and the ability to persuade and change the views of others
- Outstanding negotiator with highly developed influencing skills to support and facilitate agreements amongst a disparate range of stakeholders to complex, multidimensional challenges often with no single ‘right’ solution
- Consensus builder with the ability to work constructively with, and advise, local health systems An effective leader who role models leadership skills and sets the highest standards, motivates and develops staff and stakeholders and promotes personal, organisational and cultural development.
- Self -aware and resilient with political/emotional intelligence to understand drivers
- Ability to make timely and sound judgements and decisions to secure the effective delivery and sustainability of services, within a complex and demanding environment
- A willingness and ability both to draw on established evidence and best practice and to challenge themselves and others to think creatively and seek out and spread innovation to generate new solutions to current and future challenges
- Resilience, independence of thought, and the ability to work through conflict and ambiguity
- Track record in promoting and improving diversity and inclusion and outstanding working relationships Selfawareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debi Reilly
- Job title
- Director of Workforce Training & Education
- Email address
- [email protected]
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