Overview
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) delivers community-based healthcare services to the 1.2 million residents of Birmingham and specialist services across the West Midlands region. We are committed to delivering the best care to those who need our services and to working with our partners to help build healthy communities. We are one of the largest providers of NHS community services in the country, with over 5,000 colleagues working across 200 sites and an annual turnover of £400 million. We are at the forefront of developing neighbourhood health and integrated models of care that support people to stay well in their homes and communities. We serve some of the most deprived and ethnically diverse communities in the country and recognise the importance of tackling inequality and its impact on health and life chances. Our vision, underpinned by our values, commits us to becoming a Great Place to Work and to embedding a culture based on our values. We have made progress, but we aim to consistently embed this culture across the Trust.
Role
We are looking for a compassionate, inclusive and inspiring leader to join the team as Chief People Officer. The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trust’s organisational development, human resources and workforce development functions, ensuring delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed an organisational culture based on our Trust values.
Key responsibilities
* Lead our approach to organisational development, engagement and leadership, building a compassionate, inclusive and improving culture.
* Ensure an effective approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues, including the prevention and management of sickness absence.
* Work closely with Staff Networks to lead our work on workforce equality and inclusion, including our commitment to be an actively anti-racist organisation.
* Ensure the provision of an effective business partner Human Resources function including recruitment, employee relations, payroll and temporary staffing.
* With Executive Team colleagues, lead the development of our workforce for the future, including workforce planning and workforce information systems, preparing us for an increasingly multi-disciplinary and multi-agency future as we develop integrated care in localities and neighbourhoods.
* Ensure a high-impact and responsive approach to our internal and external organisational communications.
* Act as lead Executive Director for the BCHC Charity and be a non-voting Executive Director who participates fully in Board work to set strategy and culture and ensure delivery.
What we are looking for / Qualifications
* Significant experience of leading organisational development, people and workforce strategies within a large and complex organisation.
* Senior experience, ability and a passion for community services and the people who provide them; sector experience is flexible if values and commitment align.
* Values-led leadership with a commitment to Best Care: Healthy Communities.
* Ability to act as a values ambassador and contribute to partnerships across the Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country system.
Be Part of Our Team
BCHC has more than 5,000 staff across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We provide services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We are committed to integrated, personalised care rooted in local communities and aim to deliver outstanding, integrated care as a key NHS provider in the West Midlands.
Application note
If you want to Be Part of Our Team and work with a Foundation Trust focused on best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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