Head of Recruitment Operations
Are you a dynamic and experienced recruitment professional looking for an exciting leadership opportunity?
Oxford University Hospitals is seeking a Head of Recruitment Operations to join our prestigious institution and lead our recruitment efforts.
Oxford University Hospitals is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK, providing a wide range of clinical services and playing a pivotal role in medical education, training, and research.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation ensures that we deliver the highest quality of care to our patients.
As the Head of Recruitment Operations, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing all transactional recruitment activities across the Trust.
Your leadership and strategic vision will be crucial in selecting, and retaining top talent across a diverse range of specialties and roles.
You will work closely with the Assistant Director of Workforce - Resourcing, clinical leaders, and wider HR teams to develop and implement robust recruitment strategies that align with our institutional goals.
• Lead and manage the recruitment team to ensure the delivery of efficient and effective recruitment services.
• Develop and implement innovative recruitment strategies to attract high-caliber candidates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify recruitment needs and priorities.
• Monitor and analyse recruitment metrics to assess the effectiveness of recruitment campaigns and initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and best practices in recruitment.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the recruitment team.
• Provide guidance and support for international recruitment and visa processes
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
• Defining and implementing internal and external recruitment initiatives and processes, managing the significant change needed in the organisation to land and embed change.
• You will act as an advocate for an open, fair and transparent approach to recruitment, resourcing and accommodation allocations ensuring that the Trust always meets best practice standards.
• Responsible for supporting the development and implementation of key EDI initiatives relating to recruitment and for monitoring their effectiveness across the organisation.
• Developing services and deliver innovative initiatives to standardise and drive inclusive recruitment practices across all Directorates.
• Leading by example, to create a culture of inclusion, compliance, efficiency, value demonstration, and continuous improvement approach within team
• Ensuring recruitment delivery is compliant with Trust values, policies, legislation and NHS Employers Standards across OUH, whilst driving innovative and future focused approaches to strategic talent acquisition.
• Working in conjunction with Divisional colleagues look to ensure that OUH are attracting candidates from the communities that we serve
• Having an excellent understanding of current and future talent requirements internally, providing high quality external market insight through a combination of networking, research and knowledge sharing, to create impactful data driven change
• The post holder will ensure that doctors, managers and medical leaders have access to high quality medical HR services and that customer experience, innovation and improvement is a core component of their work.
• Work in partnership with senior medical leaders to drive the medical workforce agenda across the Trust, acting as the medical lead on workforce related projects.
• Generate regular, detailed reports for senior management, offering insightful analysis, highlighting achievements, addressing challenges, and presenting recommendations for ongoing improvement.
• The post holder will use highly developed specialist knowledge and experience of complex medical staffing terms and conditions and national policy/best practice to lead workforce strategies.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Dec 2024
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