Join MFT as our Director of People and drive your career to new heights, at one of the largest and most complex NHS Trusts in England.
This newly created role means you have the opportunity to shape, influence and build how and where you want it to impact. Reporting directly to the Deputy Chief People Officer, you will be working in collaboration with our six Clinical Group Directors of Workforce and OD and will be instrumental in leading, shaping & guiding the Employee Health and Wellbeing service, Corporate HR Business Partnering and Medical Workforce teams. Most importantly, you will be horizon scanning, setting the strategic direction and the standardisation of the People Profession across the Trust, using the MFT People Plan as an enabler for change.
It goes without saying you will have autonomy to drive workforce transformation strategically and skillfully, achieved by influencing decision making and increasing organisational and individual awareness of exceptional people practice, through the introduction, development & maintenance of leading-edge interventions.
As for you, you are passionate about all things ‘people’, recognised as a role model leader with a compassionate & supportive style, an eagerness to empower others in decision making, with the expertise to encourage our teams to know they make valuable contributions, leading to a high performing, inclusive, open, and transparent culture.
Interested? Then please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.
• With extensive experience working at senior management level in a health, social care, or similar large complex organisations, you will provide effective leadership within the Workforce Business Directorate, ensuring individual contributions are maximised, and development needs are met, creating a truly integrated workforce service.
• With a successful record in service improvement and change, delivered across a complex organisation, you will make a significant contribution to the overall success of the Trust, setting and implementing strategic objectives as part of the MFT People Plan and other key Trust Strategies.
• With significant experience of providing advice on employment matters, in a large, complex, multi-professional organisation, you will lead the development and maintenance of MFT-wide workforce policies.
• With a thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering large scale employee engagement initiatives, you will work with other colleagues to influence the how the employee experience shapes organisational direction, strategy and focus, using the MFT People Plan as an enabler for change.
• With considerable experience of developing and applying workforce & OD strategies, employment law and policies, you will actively engage in national policy development, Greater Manchester and Northwest Region strategy and change, researching best practice across the NHS, ensuring MFT is innovative in its approach to the people profession.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke ‘Candidate Information Pack’ which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To request a copy of this pack, please contact Talent Attraction & Senior Acquisition Service Manager Sinéad Gamble, via email sinead.gamble@mft.nhs.uk.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Mar 2025
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