North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving workforce excellence?
We are looking for an experienced and inspirational leader to join our team as the Assistant Director of People Services at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to shape and lead workforce operations across a diverse and dynamic healthcare environment. You will play a key role in delivering innovative people solutions aligned with the Trust's strategic objectives, ensuring our services are safe, caring, effective, responsive, and well-led. If you're ready to make a significant impact and support the transformation of healthcare services, we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As the Assistant Director of People Services, you will lead and innovate across all aspects of workforce operations, including recruitment, workforce planning, temporary staffing, and leadership support. Your responsibilities will include:
* Collaborating with clinical and support teams to ensure effective workforce planning and management.
* Driving the development and implementation of workforce plans aligned with the Trust's People Strategy.
* Leading on the enhancement of HR systems and processes to maximise efficiency and service quality.
* Supporting workforce transformation initiatives in line with national and regional strategies.
* Providing expert advice on complex workforce challenges to senior leadership.
* Managing key external partnerships and representing the Trust in regional and national networks.
* Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion across the workforce.
You will provide visible, credible leadership, inspiring a culture of continuous improvement and innovation while deputising for the Director of People Services as needed. This is your chance to join a forward-thinking team committed to transforming workforce practices and ensuring outstanding outcomes for our patients and staff.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Master's level qualification in a People Management discipline or equivalent experience.
* Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Fellowship of the CIPD.
Knowledge & Experience
* Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams in a complex, large-scale organisation.
* Proven ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
* Demonstrable expertise in advising on strategic workforce options and service delivery models.
* Demonstrated success in achieving performance through others by fostering engagement and setting clear objectives.
* Considerable experience working autonomously within defined parameters to meet strategic goals.
* Senior-level experience in employee relations within a culturally diverse organisation.
* Experience managing service-level agreements and partnerships with other entities. Representing an organisation, policies or processes to the media.
Skills and Aptitudes
* Highly developed analytical skills - able to review complex datasets and processes and draw appropriate conclusions and recommendations.
* Able to provide authoritative advice on highly complex workforce issues and demonstrate developed persuasive, motivational and negotiating skills.
* Able to analyse and interpret complex, disparate and multi-stranded information, drawing conclusions and themes and then presenting these (both verbally and written) in a coherent and easily understood format.
* Able to lead and inspire in a sense of shared purpose, overcoming challenges and delivering sustainable services and continuous transformation.
* Ability to be intellectually flexible and agile, able to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative services.
* Proven ability to foster an organisational culture that is positive about change and committed to the delivery of the Trust and People strategies.
* Strong communication and presentation skills.
* Knowledge of best practice HR and wellbeing processes.
* Experience of working with and developing digital workforce systems. Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of HR best practice and employment legislation.
Personal Attributes
* Role model for Trust values and behaviours, demonstrating a positive attitude and resilience under pressure. Strong commitment to quality and improving patient outcomes. Proven track record in fostering diversity, integrity, and collaboration within teams.
Other
* Ability to travel to various sites across North East and North Cumbria when necessary.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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