Associate Director of People | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 01 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £82,906 - £94,632 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Location: | Plaistow, E13 8SL |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7518408/259-7477014NUH-B |
Summary
Newham Hospital are seeking a compassionate and committed Associate Director of People to join and lead a newly created team dedicated to improving workplace experience for all and impacting the local community.
This post is newly created and will support the People Director to further develop a high performing team that has over the past 12 months supported increasing NUH fill rate by 5%, reducing sickness by 1.5%, reducing turnover to 9%, embedded a culture of speaking up and improved many metrics across WRES, WDES and Staff Survey.
Reporting to the Director of People the post holder will ensure the provision of professional customer-focused HR advice, coaching and solutions that support the business in the identification and management of workforce issues and major change programmes.
The Associate Director of People is responsible for the operational management and development of the People Team at NUH including the Business Partnering and Employee Relations advisory services. In doing so, ensuring that the structure and function is fit for purpose, and in leading high performing teams to deliver organisational need across NUH.
Manage the portfolio of strategic workforce projects and priorities including developing, setting and monitoring of key performance indicators, including those required through the people strategy, national performance frameworks and other workforce targets.
Support the Senior People Partners to co-design with managers and implement local people projects including workforce plans, local organisational design, organisational development and transformation, performance, development, talent management and customer service.
The Associate Director of People may be asked to deputise/ represent the Director of People as required.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.”
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025