Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
As a strategic and compassionate leader, joining WWL as our new Associate Director of HR will be a rewarding opportunity to influence and shape the delivery of our People Services function, as we strive to deliver efficient, customer focused and value adding services, that enhance staff experience and support outstanding patient care.
Please note that this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received. We encourage interested candidates to apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
As a key member of the People Services Senior Leadership Team, you'll ensure that our operational and clinical leaders are supported by highly capable, professional and future focussed Business Partnering and Medical Workforce functions.
You'll work closely with the Associate Director of OD and Inclusion, and Associate Director of Workforce Transformation and Planning to develop, implement and measure the impact of plans and strategies which address our key workforce challenges, now and for our future.
You'll also nurture our open and effective relationship with our Joint Trade Unions, ensuring partnership working is embedded in everything we do.
About You
With substantial experience of leading People Services, you'll also have significant experience of advising on complex employee relations and organisational change matters.
You'll have an in-depth knowledge of NHS workforce challenges and be steadfast in your commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Our values will strike a chord with you, and you'll share our ambition to be an outstanding organisation.
If you're up for the challenge, please get in touch for an informal chat.
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.
·People at the Heart
·Listen and Involve
·Kind and Respectful
·ONE Team
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting covid-19.vaccine@wwl.nhs.uk where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed list of the main responsibilities of the role, please view the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Masters level HR/OD qualification
2. MCIPD
3. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
4. Coaching qualification
5. Employment law qualification
6. Project management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Substantial experience at a senior level of leading HR/People services - motivating and developing the team, including setting out clear priorities, objectives, mentoring and coaching to maximise potential
8. Experience of leading, developing and embedding Business Partnering model
9. Experience of working in a rapidly changing environment with multiple senior stakeholders and building trust, securing their engagement, resulting in sustainable change
10. Experience of leading the development of HR&OD strategies to support service and workforce transformation
11. Significant experience of advising on complex employee relations and organisational change matters, including Employment Tribunal cases
12. Experience of developing and cultivating effective partnership working with Trade Union colleagues
13. Experience in developing and implementing strategies that promote equality and inclusion and staff experience
14. Experience of working with different professional groups including medical workforce
15. Experience in using digital HR systems
Desirable criteria
16. Experience of leading HR services within NHS
17. Experience within or leading a Medical Workforce function
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
18. Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information
19. Ability to negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information verbally and through reports
20. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
21. Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
22. Ability to develop and maintain positive, high-level relationships and professional credibility with key stakeholders and influencers
23. IT skills – proficient in use of Microsoft Office
24. Compassionate and inclusive leadership style
25. Ability to drive efficiency, productivity and cost improvement through workforce interventions
Knowledge
Essential criteria
26. Highly developed specialist professional knowledge across a range of HR disciplines
27. Demonstrable knowledge of complex change management principles and TUPE
28. Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and its application
29. Knowledge of NHS workforce challenges (including those related to medical workforce)
30. Knowledge of NHS strategic plans and priorities
31. Knowledge and understanding of NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and NHS 10 Year Plan
Desirable criteria
32. Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions and employment policy
33. Knowledge of NHS Job Evaluation process
Additional
Essential criteria
34. Commitment to the delivery of the highest standard of customer service
35. Steadfast commitment to promotion of equality, diversion and inclusion
36. Commitment to embedding, promoting and championing WWL Values and Behaviours
37. Able to travel and work flexibly across the geographical footprint of the organisation