As a member of the Divisional Board, the Divisional Head of Workforce plays a pivotal role in leading HR provision across the Division, providing expert advice on the full spectrum of workforce matters. This senior role shapes and delivers strategic HR direction to support high-quality patient care, operational efficiency, workforce productivity, and the achievement of both Trust and Divisional objectives.
Working collaboratively with Divisional Directors, Heads of Nursing, Finance leads, and other senior stakeholders, the Divisional Head of Workforce drives forward planning, transformation initiatives, staff engagement, and workforce performance. The role also champions the embedding of best HR practice and the development of management capability across the Division.
In partnership with the Associate Directors of Workforce, the Divisional Head of Workforce contributes to the delivery of the Trust's strategic workforce priorities, ensuring the Division remains a high-performing, engaged, and sustainable part of the organisation.
Main duties of the job
* Work closely with senior leaders, including Executive Directors, Divisional Boards, Clinical Directors, Heads of Nursing, Finance colleagues and staff-side representatives, to drive high-quality, evidence-based workforce planning, organisational change and employee relations.
* Lead the development and delivery of divisional workforce strategies, informed by complex workforce analytics, to ensure the right staffing, skills and culture are in place to support safe, effective and financially sustainable patient care. This includes shaping recruitment and retention plans, enabling skill-mix redesign, and supporting major projects, tenders and transformation programmes.
* Oversee Divisional Workforce performance, ensuring delivery of KPIs, benchmarking against best practice, and producing high-quality workforce reports to inform decision-making. You will also support organisational change initiatives—including restructures and TUPE—leading consultation processes and enabling new ways of working.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role requiring a confident HR professional with strong influencing skills, expert knowledge of employment law and NHS workforce frameworks, and a passion for developing people and transforming services.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values – Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
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