The Role
This is a rare opportunity to help create, an organisation that puts NHS values into practice bringing together existing NHS Trusts and services to harness the very best of what each of our constituent organisations do, and provides the platform for a truly people driven organisation.
Working together for patients. Patients come first in everything that we do. We fully involve patients, staff, families, carers, communities, and professionals inside and outside the NHS.
Respect and dignity. We value every person – whether patient, their families or carers, or staff – as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits. do.
Commitment to quality of care. We earn the trust placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics of quality of care – safety, effectiveness and patient experience – right every time.
Compassion. We ensure that compassion is central to the care we provide and respond with humanity and kindness to each person’s pain, distress, anxiety or need.
Improving lives. We strive to improve health and wellbeing and people’s experiences of the NHS.
Everyone counts. We maximise our resources for the benefit of the whole community, and make sure nobody is excluded, discriminated against or left behind.
This is a role for someone who is passionate about organisational development and someone who genuinely wants to play a crucial role in helping to shape the development of the organisation, including its culture, values and skills.
The CPO / Director of People and Development will play a critical part in bringing together over 10,000 people, and deploying £700M for the best impact on the health and wellbeing of 1.7M people. Therefore, talent will be at the fore of the agenda. Nurturing and developing high-quality talent creating a collaborative culture of trust and inclusion will be top of mind for the CPO/ Director of People and Development.
They will ensure that People operations meet the demands of an agile and evolving organisation. We need to create a culture where top class individuals want to work and flourish, respect each other and combine forces.
The CPO / Director of People and Development will lead on helping the Trust to achieve its aspiration of being recognised as a great place to work, enabling everyone to have the opportunity to build, grow and develop within the organisation.
Reporting directly to the CEO, the CPO/ Director of People will be a key member of the Executive Team and Trust Board. The CPO/ Director of People will have individual and corporate responsibility for delivery of the Trust objectives.
The Person Specification
The CPO/Director of People Development will be an organisational expert, innovative People leader who has built their experience leading effective, future focused people strategies across multiple, complex organisations. Candidates who have led complex organisational development programmes at pace at scale within a comparable environment.
The CPO/Director of People and Development will have to instinctively be able to fluctuate between various disciplines to be able to set people and culture strategies. Ultimately the CPO/Director of People and Development will be an advisory business partner to the CEO and to the Executive Team.
The CPO/Director of People and Development will have the instinct for identifying and attracting talent and will have the energy and passion to help build and communicate the vision to a diverse range of stakeholders and business partners.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:
- Depth and breadth of wide ranging, organisational and cultural transformation experience, gained in complex organisations of scale
- A track-record of developing and aligning People strategies to the business and leading teams to ensure the highest quality execution and delivery. Proven experience of delivering through people by collaborating, leveraging relationships and building capability
- A demonstrable track record operating and influencing at Board level in a complex setting
- A broad technical understanding of the key disciplines of the People function and ensuring that this drives improved organisation performance and culture
- Experience and cultural affinity with a highly diverse workforce, including hands-on experience in developing people
- A successful track record of embodying and reinforcing a positive, cohesive, customer and values-centric culture
- Personal resilience – experience of working effectively and of leading a team successfully during periods of sustained pressure, scrutiny and ambiguity
- Total commitment to promoting equity and inclusivity nurturing a culturally and socially diverse workforce, role modelling and enabling the organisation’s core values
- Ability to develop credibility with clinicians, practitioners, managers, service users, carers and key community influencers
- Championing patient and carer voices in the development and delivery of the Trust’s services
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to synthesise complex information
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrate the behaviours that are integral to the Trust’s core values