Associate HR Director - Projects | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £82,906 - £94,632 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 7WG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7649633/277-7649633-CORP |
Summary
The Cavendish Square Group brings together London’s ten NHS mental health trusts to drive collaboration and innovation across the capital. We are seeking an Associate HR Director – Projects to lead strategic workforce initiatives, focusing on reducing variation in bank and agency medical expenditure. The postholder will work with NHSE to collate and share information on fill rates for resident doctors posts, they will also identify the range of agency and bank rates and recommend ways forward to reduce variation.
You’ll work closely with Chief Medical Officers, Chief People Officers, Finance Directors, and NHSE colleagues, providing senior HR leadership and delivering practical solutions to workforce challenges.
We’re looking for a senior HR leader with MCIPD or equivalent experience, strong analytical and financial skills, and a proven track record of delivering change in complex organisations.
This is a unique opportunity to shape workforce strategy across London’s mental health services and make a real impact.
· Work with NHSE to collate and share information on the pipeline for consultant roles, identifying any shortfall in filling consultant roles by mental health specialities junior doctor in training posts
· Work with NHSE to collate and share information on number an fill rate for resident doctors
· Identify the range of agency rates being paid by CSG partner organisations, recommending a way forwardto reduce variation. The recommendations should take into account the labour market conditions for the different mental health specialties.
· Identify the range of bank rates being paid by CSG partners organisations, recommending a way forward toreduce variation. The recommendations should take into account the London medical bank rates and whether it is appropriate to use specialist rates in mental health organisations.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details on the role that is being avertised.
This advert closes on Sunday 1 Feb 2026
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