Redevelopment People Lead | The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £97,283 - £111,278 pa inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 January 2026 |
| Location: | Hillingdon, UB8 3NN |
| Company: | The Hillingdon Hospital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7659936/394-Corp-7659936DT |
Summary
Reporting into the Chief People Officer for the Trust, the People Lead will be the management lead for the People Workstream as part of the Hillingdon Hospital Redevelopment Programme.
The purpose of the People Lead is to:
• Be responsible for the delivery of the key activities required of the People workstream
• Ensure efficient skill mix and resource allocation in new hospital
• Optimise workflow efficiency, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities
• Drive effective collaboration and decision making
• Ensure alignment of the workforce strategy with other enabling strategies as part of the redevelopment programme
Key activities required of the People Workstream
• Develop the workforce strategy
• Carry out workforce modelling
• Design the future organisation (Target Operating Model, structures & roles, ways of working etc.)
• Manage change and ensure workforce readiness
• Attract, recruit and develop the project team
• Develop and deliver social value strategy
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Job Specification
1. Strategy development, alignment and implementation
a. Strategy development:
• Lead the development of workforce strategies, policies and processes to maximise opportunities through co-design, to support the aims and implementation of the Trusts Clinical strategy.
• Lead the refresh of the Trust’s People strategy, including horizon scanning for innovative approaches to workforce strategies and approaches which are innovative and fit for the future ensuring that the People strategy is aligned with system wide strategies at PLACE and ICB/ICS level. Utilise resources and tools available from other NHP schemes and NHSE to develop workforce strategies that are standardised at strategic level and bespoke at local level. Support the identification of skills and competencies required for a digital hospital to ensure the workforce are well equipped to operate in a new digitally enhanced facility.
• Develop a holistic Learning & Development (L&D) strategy for the scheme project team to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to contribute effectively.
b. Strategy alignment via the Target Operating Model:
• Input into Target Operating Model (TOM) workstream ensuring the workforce strategy: a) defines organisational structures, roles, and ways of working to ensure the future scheme functions efficiently and effectively; b) is aligned to other key redevelopment strategies to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined, aligned and that objectives can be delivered (i.e. transformation strategy is critically linked to workforce).
c. Strategy implementation:
• Lead the development and implementation of action plans for the recruitment/retention, Management of Change (MoC) and Organisational Development (OD) requirements for the People strategy.
• Lead the development of action plans to deliver the workforce strategy specifically considering how priority strategies need to be aligned for assurance purposes.
2. Workforce Modelling:
• Lead all workforce modelling to identify workforce gaps and project future workforce needs ensuring alignment with the financial modelling at a detailed level. Identify whether/if external support is required.
3. Social Values Strategy:
• Develop and deliver a social value strategy to foster a positive impact on the community through workforce initiatives and local partnerships.
4. Benefits Management:
• Contribute to the benefits management plan, ensuring that workforce are active in capturing benefits.
5. Change Management / Operational Readiness:
• Lead change management efforts for workforce (e.g. implementation of 48 hour working), ensuring workforce readiness for transitions and organisational changes required for the scheme.
• Contribute to the operational readiness workstream, ensuring that workforce readiness is aligned to the overall organisation readiness required for the scheme.
6. Project Management:
• Lead in the development of metrics for the people workstream to demonstrate that its on track to deliver the outcomes.
• Lead the development and regular maintenance of a workforce workstream project plan including all tasks, deliverables and critical path.
• Align workforce strategies to the overall project plan for the redevelopment people workstream, working closely with the other workstreams on the project team.
• Develop a resource plan to ensure the requirements of the workforce strategy can be delivered to the timeline required and with appropriately skilled and competent people.
• Lead the management and administration of the people workstream to be able achieve the objectives of the workstream.
7. Redevelopment Governance:
• Provide assurance through redevelopment governance that the people workstream is on track to deliver its objectives and outcomes through the delivery of monthly updates to the Redevelopment PMO using the dashboard reporting system.
• Accountable for the management of risk within the workstream, including escalation of risks when they meet trigger points.
• Accountable for the management of changes within the workstream, ensuring they follow the redevelopment change control process.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Jan 2026