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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
The postholder will work alongside the Director of HR to be the subject matter expert in Resourcing including workforce planning, Medical Staffing and Business Intelligence with the ultimate aim of improving our People Practices. The postholder will develop and deliver a strategic response to the Trust recruitment, retention and resource challenges. They will take strategic responsibility for ensuring we have a Medical HR service which meets the needs of our services to deliver safe, patient care. They will be the organisation lead for analysis and provision of people data, as well as the Trust lead for the Electronic Staff Record. Finally, the postholder will lead on our people planning approach, shaping organisational strategy and contributing regionally and nationally working collaboratively with Human Resources, Education and Development, Finance and Operational colleagues, in line with the People and Culture Strategy, the post-holder is responsible for overseeing strategic workforce planning and supporting the efficient use of our people resource.
Be a role-model for compassionate and person-centred leadership as a key senior member of the Trust. Deputise for the Director of Human Resources as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
1. Participate in HR, locality and corporate committees/meetings within the Trust as appropriate and to represent the Trust at relevant external meetings providing highly specialist advice as required.
2. Contribute to the Trust’s People and Culture Strategy in line with strategic and operational business plans, and to the delivery of HR priorities, leading the development and implementation of defined projects/areas of work as required.
3. Take a lead role in ensuring the Trust maximises the efficiencies and benefits available from its workforce information systems, in particular, the Electronic Staff Record, Trac, Allocate for Medic’s and NHS Jobs systems.
4. Develop a good understanding of business aims and objectives and through the provision of highly specialist advice and proactive support, to contribute to the development of business and care group strategies relating to workforce resourcing, flexibility and planning and implementing complementary plans to support these strategies.
5. In line with our People and Culture Strategy and NHS requirements, to be responsible for ensuring our policies are fit for purpose.
6. To ensure our Trust Values and equality, diversity and inclusion is embedded into our approach and delivery of recruitment, selection and staffing arrangements.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent relevant experience to masters level or equivalent.
* Chartered Member of CIPD (MCIPD).
Experience
* Post qualification or equivalent experience at an operational and strategic level with responsibilities for workforce systems, information and workforce planning.
* Use of: Electronic Staff Record, NHS Jobs, E-rostering, Trac, Allocate for Medic’s.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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