Associate Director - Recruitment, Resourcing & Optimisation
| Posting date: | 27 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £91,342 - £105,337 Per annum/ pro rota for part time hours |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 April 2026 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7895000/358-7895000-COR |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinkingAssociate Director – Recruitment, Resourcing & Optimisationto provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of recruitment and resourcing services across University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL).
This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for shaping and delivering high‑quality, digitally enabled recruitment and resourcing services – including temporary staffing and the medical workforce – ensuring the Trust attracts, retains and optimises the workforce required to meet both current and future needs.
The post holder will lead large‑scale transformation programmes, drive service improvement, and ensure robust operational delivery, financial sustainability and an excellent experience for candidates, managers and staff.
You will be an experienced senior people professional with a strong track record of leading complex workforce transformation in a large NHS or similarly complex organisation. You will combine strategic thinking with a strong operational focus and be confident influencing at the most senior levels.
You will bring:
• Master’s level qualification (or equivalent significant experience) in a relevant discipline, with evidence of continuous professional development.
• Extensive senior management experience in recruitment, resourcing, workforce transformation or programme leadership.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale change, working across organisational boundaries and with partners at system, regional and national level.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience of managing budgets and delivering efficiency programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and build consensus.
• A values‑led approach, demonstrating inclusive leadership and a commitment to equality, diversity and wellbeing.
Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CIPD or CMI) and experience in complex acute healthcare environments would be advantageous.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk
What you’ll be responsible for
• Providingstrategic oversight and operational leadershipof recruitment, resourcing, temporary staffing and medical workforce services across a large, complex acute Trust.
• Leading and deliveringTrust‑wide transformation programmes, ensuring services are streamlined, efficient, cost‑effective and digitally enabled.
• Working collaboratively with senior leaders, clinicians, system partners and external organisations to deliver shared workforce solutions and system‑wide efficiencies.
• Drivingservice optimisation, ensuring effective utilisation of skills and resources, and measurable improvements in performance and user experience.
• Leading governance, assurance, risk management and benefits realisation across recruitment and resourcing programmes.
• Holding responsibility forbudgetary control, financial performance, CIP delivery and contract management.
• Providing visible, inclusive leadership to multidisciplinary teams, supporting development, performance and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Acting as a senior advisor to the Executive Team and Board, providing expert insight, analysis and assurance on recruitment and resourcing matters.
This advert closes on Friday 10 Apr 2026
We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinkingAssociate Director – Recruitment, Resourcing & Optimisationto provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of recruitment and resourcing services across University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL).
This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for shaping and delivering high‑quality, digitally enabled recruitment and resourcing services – including temporary staffing and the medical workforce – ensuring the Trust attracts, retains and optimises the workforce required to meet both current and future needs.
The post holder will lead large‑scale transformation programmes, drive service improvement, and ensure robust operational delivery, financial sustainability and an excellent experience for candidates, managers and staff.
You will be an experienced senior people professional with a strong track record of leading complex workforce transformation in a large NHS or similarly complex organisation. You will combine strategic thinking with a strong operational focus and be confident influencing at the most senior levels.
You will bring:
• Master’s level qualification (or equivalent significant experience) in a relevant discipline, with evidence of continuous professional development.
• Extensive senior management experience in recruitment, resourcing, workforce transformation or programme leadership.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale change, working across organisational boundaries and with partners at system, regional and national level.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience of managing budgets and delivering efficiency programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and build consensus.
• A values‑led approach, demonstrating inclusive leadership and a commitment to equality, diversity and wellbeing.
Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CIPD or CMI) and experience in complex acute healthcare environments would be advantageous.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk
What you’ll be responsible for
• Providingstrategic oversight and operational leadershipof recruitment, resourcing, temporary staffing and medical workforce services across a large, complex acute Trust.
• Leading and deliveringTrust‑wide transformation programmes, ensuring services are streamlined, efficient, cost‑effective and digitally enabled.
• Working collaboratively with senior leaders, clinicians, system partners and external organisations to deliver shared workforce solutions and system‑wide efficiencies.
• Drivingservice optimisation, ensuring effective utilisation of skills and resources, and measurable improvements in performance and user experience.
• Leading governance, assurance, risk management and benefits realisation across recruitment and resourcing programmes.
• Holding responsibility forbudgetary control, financial performance, CIP delivery and contract management.
• Providing visible, inclusive leadership to multidisciplinary teams, supporting development, performance and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Acting as a senior advisor to the Executive Team and Board, providing expert insight, analysis and assurance on recruitment and resourcing matters.
This advert closes on Friday 10 Apr 2026