Chief People Officer
| Posting date: | 15 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £140,000.00 to £150,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £140000.00 - £150000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B7 4BN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9820-26-0034 |
Summary
The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trusts organisational development, human resources and workforce functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed a culture based on our values. The Chief People Officer will: lead our approach to organisational development, engagement and leadership building a compassionate, inclusive and improving culture; ensure an effective approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues including the prevention and management of sickness absence; work closely with Staff Networks to lead our work on workforce equality and inclusion including our commitment to be an actively anti-racist organisation; ensurethe provision of an effective business partner Human Resources function including recruitment, employee relations, payroll and temporary staffing; with Executive Team colleagues, lead the development of our workforce for the future including workforce planning and workforce information systems, preparing us for an increasingly multi-disciplinary and mult-agency future as we develop integrated care in localities and neighbourhoods; ensure a high-impact and responsive approach to our internal and external organisational communications. The Chief People Officer is a non-voting Executive Director and will play a full role in the work of the Board in setting strategy and culture and ensuring delivery. The postholder will be the lead Executive Director for the work of the BCHC Charity. Although all Directors have responsibility for delivery across the three strategic objectives that the Trust has set as part our vision, the Chief People Officer has particular responsibility for working with colleagues to deliver our ambition to become a Great Place to Work.