People Director
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £105,385 i £121,271 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105385 - £121271 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | G9914-25-0137 |
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The post holder will be an important member of the NHSBSAs Leadership Team. As part of this team, you will help lead the organisation into the future, managing day to day challenges and supporting the NHSBSA to realise its strategic ambitions. You will champion and drive closer working and greater integration between Directorates to collectively ensure we fulfil our purpose and vision. This will include cultivating relationships with a wide network of colleagues external to NHSBSA. You will therefore provide a central leadership role to the future development and transformation of the NHSBSA services, workforce and organisational culture. This role is a key decision maker and will have overall responsibility for the effective service delivery of the People function, influencing at the highest level and able to cope with competing demands. In conjunction with the Chief People Officer, youll develop and the deliver the overarching People Strategy, supporting the overall organisations strategic direction, whilst mitigating and managing any workforce risk. As an expert in holistic people best practice, this role will also provide significant support to the Executive Director team, deputising where appropriate, leading a senior management team and working with key external stakeholders across the system. Job summary:1. As a Senior Leader and a member of our Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief People Officer, you will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a leading-edge people agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break even budgets. Alongside this you will lead and embed significant workforce transformation and look to continuously improve colleague experience and business performance. Leading a diverse workforce, you will lead, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines through a high performing, inclusive and collaborative culture, in addition to building and maintaining effective trusted relationships with key stakeholders. You will be responsible for leading and managing the development and implementation of the right People strategies, policies and processes to enable the NHSBSA to deliver its ambitious agenda. 2. With a forward thinking, commercially minded and collaborative approach, you will be instrumental in leading, shaping and overseeing the Corporate HR, Organisational Design and Development and Colleague Experience teams that form the People function. You will horizon scan, collaboratively setting the strategic direction of the People teams across the NHSBSA, using the People strategies as a key enabler for change. Youll be required to act autonomously, making significant decisions that impact the organisation to ensure excellence is achieved and maintained. 3. Collaboratively lead and develop a strategic framework for the People Team, with robust plans to deliver against the strategic objectives of the overall organisation. Ensure People team priorities are aligned to overall strategy and reviewed regularly, with accountability for success driven within all teams. Develop feedback mechanisms to support the improvement of service delivery.4. Ensure the day-to-day provision of an effective overall People function, delivering service excellence aligned to our strategic objectives, and the continuous development of forward thinking, and legally compliant function. Ensure effective people practices, ensuring expert advice and support, on a wide range of complex workforce issues can be always provided. Provision of expertise level knowledge in employment related legislation and Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions. 5. Effective and supportive leadership of Heads of Service of a variety of people focused teams, ensuring service excellence and efficiency is embedded in all areas. Work to streamline processes and digitise where possible. Strategic Leadership 6. This role will ensure strategic alignment of service delivery, workforce planning and operational excellence and ensure a culture of financial discipline, value for money and optimising resourcing is embedded. Youll champion efficiency, continuous improvement and customer centric innovation to enhance service impact and over see governance, risk, and compliance with a strategic and ethical lens, balancing ambition with responsibility. 7. Responsible for bringing together, connecting and aligning all organisational wide HR, OD&D and CESI programmes into one coherent strategic framework, enabling our workforce to thrive now and in the face of future demands. 8. Ensuring appropriate people policies are in place that support our colleagues and organisational aims, are accessible, embedded, continuously improved and legally compliant. 9. Provide expert advice across the organisation on complex workforce matters and provision of strategic solutions to related business challenges, including organisational change, new ways of working and transformation. Ensure our wider teams are appropriately resourced to deliver SME expertise. 10. Ensure our organisation develops and embraces Strategic Workforce Planning, ensuring we are fit for the future and agile to change. Ensure the provision of strategic advice on workforce impacts, workforce business planning and scenario planning for future business opportunities and challenges. Provision of strategies to help address organisations workforce risk. 11. Be an expert practitioner of change, ensuring best practice, and effective change management practices and skills are embedded across the organisation and led by SMEs, ensuring colleague wellbeing runs throughout any programme of change. Ensure we are ready and able to support large scale change/TUPE where required. 12. Ensure the organisation has a robust and strategic approach to talent acquisition, development, reward and recognition, ensuring effective resource planning, embedded EVP and an organisational view of vacancy levels, with appropriate, transparent and wide ranging strategies to attract, develop and retain the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles. Support the development of a creative and best in class approach to reward and recognition, within the boundaries of Agenda for Change. 13. Ensure that an agile, innovative and evidence based approach is taken in all aspects of learning, talent, leadership and organisational development and design which facilitates the cultural and wider transformation of the organisation as well as continuing to meet the existing needs of our customers and stakeholders and includes strategic leadership development strategies and interventions that mitigate retention and succession risk. 14. Ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion, social impact and wellbeing are key drivers running across all workforce strategies and work streams, ensuring strong levels of organisational wide engagement and a continued focus on this agenda at all levels. Operational Leadership 15. Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive culture that empowers and engages colleagues, lead with authenticity, embedding the NHSBSAs values in decision making, behaviours and leadership practices. Develop and retain top talent, ensuring succession planning strengthens future leadership pipelines and navigate complexity with confidence, ensuring teams are agile, motivated and outcome focused. Decision Making and Continuous Improvement 16. Continuously develop and drive service insight and other complex data to evaluate current operating model and service provision, to determine changes needed within the service area whilst inspiring horizon scan across the People function and wider organisation. Leading on major strategic projects, in conjunction with other Directors and Executive Leadership Team, acting as SRO for programmes and projects undertaken where appropriate. 17. Budgetary responsibility for the People Team. Overall responsibility for the effective management and monitoring of budgets. This will include prioritisation of resources and ensuring all benefits are captured and delivered. Allocating funds for high-priority, high-impact activity by seeking out the most cost-effective way to deliver services, ensuring corrective action is taken where necessary including working closely with other stakeholders. Transformation, Innovation and Stakeholder Influence18. Lead large scale change, and transformation with vision, adaptability and strategic foresight. You will foster a culture of curiosity, challenge and continuous improvement to drive sustainable innovation, building and leveraging influential relationships, managing complex stakeholder landscapes with political acumen. This role will align internal and external partners to advance NHDBSA mission, securing commitment to shared goals. 19. Building and leading effective partnerships with our recognised Trade Unions, and colleague representative groups, chairing our Working in Partnership Committee and other relevant boards/committees. Leadership level responsibilities and accountabilities20. Be a champion for equality and diversity for the organisation, actively working to create and maintain an environment that is diverse and inclusive of all. Please review attached job description for full responsibilities.