Deputy Chief People Officer | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Attractive Remuneration Package |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7245116/349-COR-7245116-RL4 |
Summary
MFT is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in England with over 30,000 staff, 5-7000 trainees and a turnover of £2.8bn. We are by definition a big and complex organisation on a different scale to most other NHS Trusts and we have an exciting and high-profile opportunity for an experienced People Leader to join our Trust and play a pivotal role in our journey to deliver excellent care for our communities. Reporting directly to our new Chief People Officer, this is a rare and exciting opportunity for a talented individual to achieve amazing people focused developments in one of the most vibrant and ambitious Trusts’ in England.
You would be joining us at a time of enormous challenge and a future full of opportunity. The ideal candidate will be a recognised leader with influence and personal credibility who brings senior experience within the people profession, gained in a complex NHS organisation. You will bring strong values that align with ours and you will role model an unwavering drive to deliver the strategic ambition of the Trust, as an anchor organisation for the city of Manchester and borough of Trafford.
Join us and you will have the opportunity to work with some of the best people in the NHS, and thrive in an organisation united in its values, purpose and commitment to patients and our colleagues.
As an established people leader with influence and personal credibility, you will deputise for the Chief People Officer across the full range of their duties and help drive the development, implementation and evaluation of the People Plan and related strategies. You will work with 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. With a compassionate and caring leadership style, you will deliver visible leadership within the people function, creating an inclusive working environment, ensuring all people activities actively promote inclusion, diversity, and equality. You will maintain high standards of personal integrity, and you will be passionate about improving staff experience and getting things right for our people
MFT has a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent. If our Trust and this role is of interest , we would be delighted to hear from you.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 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.
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about MFT and full details of the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. For more information or to apply, please visit www.odgers.com/93987.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025
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