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Job overview
Are you a seasoned expert in strategic workforce planning, ready to take on a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare delivery? We're seeking a dynamic Head of Workforce Transformation & Planning to play a pivotal role in our transformation journey.
As we embark on ambitious projects like our Community and In Patient Transformation Programmes, your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring we have the skilled workforce needed to meet tomorrow's healthcare challenges head-on.
In this key role, you'll lead the development of strategic workforce plans that align with our Trust's vision, national initiatives, and service innovations. You'll be the linchpin between analysis, strategy, and execution, driving complex workforce planning, transformation, and organisational design for major projects and ensuring alignment with our strategic goals.
Main duties of the job
* Leading complex workforce planning and transformation for major projects, aligning with strategic goals.
* Providing expert input to the development of workforce plans and strategies to underpin the business cases that support the New Hospital Programme and other major programmes.
* Leading the team providing workforce support to our New Hospital Programme, developing and delivering on all aspects of the project relating to our people, and working closely across our existing people directorate teams.
* Developing strong working relationships and providing expert workforce and HR advice to impact decisions, support initiatives, clarify accountability, and communicate progress across project workstreams.
* Harnessing best practice and innovative thinking to address future healthcare needs through workforce planning and transformation.
* Developing workforce planning capacity and capability of HR colleagues and senior managers.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree in relevant subject plus further training or experience to Master's level.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Member status of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent professional, accredited recognised body.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of workforce and OD service improvement interventions working with Subject Matter Experts / Advisors and multiprofessional groups at a senior level.
* Leading and managing directly employed staff and associated budgets.
* Significant demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these to a shared service environment.
* Developing and monitoring service level agreements (SLAs) with internal and external providers.
* Business planning.
* Senior management experience in the NHS.
* Experience of delivering strategic objectives for a diverse and complex department.
* Experience of effectively working at management level in the field of HR for an organisation of relevant scale and complexity.
* Experience of building, leading, motivating and developing multidisciplinary teams and as a highly effective people manager.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Excellent demonstrable knowledge of current resourcing legislation, case law and HR good practice.
* Excellent knowledge of terms and conditions, benefits and payroll.
* Strong technical knowledge on electronic storage and information systems and ability to compile, interpret and present complex information.
* An understanding of the strategic approach to Human Resources.
* Strong technical knowledge on governance as it applies to workforce and OD.
* An understanding of the NHS agenda around governance assurance and HR.
* Up to date working knowledge of Workforce and service improvement approaches within the NHS.
* Demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these complex organisational designs.
* Up to date knowledge of HR and issues from a best practice perspective.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Effective interpersonal skills, proven ability to read situations and obtain commitment from others.
* Excellent leadership and influencing skills with a range of stakeholders.
* Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively and co-operatively with colleagues and other partners gaining real commitment from others.
* Ability to analyse highly complex issues and provide practical and creative solutions to problems.
* Ability to translate complex information and explain things in a clear and concise way to a wide range of stakeholders.
* Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines.
* Excellent verbal communication, influencing, collaboration and negotiating skills.
* Outstanding presentation skills.
* The ability to work as a team member, both within teams internally and as an accomplished participant in cross-agency teams.
* Professional HR role model.
* The ability to work with senior management, clinical colleagues and other staff, to make sound judgments and respond positively to a rapidly changing environment.
* Ability to continually review service and recognise inefficiencies.
* Experience of managing an HR team and responding to a rapidly evolving workforce development agenda.
* Partnership working and working knowledge of the National Strategies and other supporting initiatives.
* Innovative thinking and the ability to explore imaginative ways of optimising use of resources.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
* Proven ability to build personal and professional credibility with management and corporate services and staff.
* Open, transparent style, collaborative and supportive. Committed to developing a culture of openness and partnership.
* Demonstrates emotional resilience and intelligence in the face of competing demands and conflict.
* A flexibility of style and approach to succeed in managing and leading in a collaborative way.
* Committed to the continuous development of self and others.
* Self-aware, understands impact of own behaviour on others.
* Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role.
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
* Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
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