Total 5 Director/C-Level Human Resources job vacancies in Leeds

• Nursing qualification, with a valid UK NMC Pin

• Proven experience in managing large healthcare operations, with a track record of delivering excellence and positive outcomes.
• Strong experience within a hospice setting and in-depth knowledge of palliative care.
• Leadership skills with the ability to inspire and energise teams, ensuring the highest level of care is delivered.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to manage budgets, resources, and operational processes.
• Positive energy, a passion for the work we do, and a deep commitment to compassionate, patient-centred care.

• Company pension scheme
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Sick pay
• Enhances maternity and paternity leave
• Annual leave that increases with service

• Lead the overall management and operations of the hospice, ensuring the highest standards of care and compliance.
• Oversee the delivery of palliative care services, ensuring patients receive compassionate, patient-centred care that aligns with organisation's core values.
• Drive operational excellence by managing staff, resources, and budgets effectively, with a focus on delivering positive clinical and financial outcomes.
• Foster a positive and collaborative environment, inspiring and supporting staff to meet the needs of patients, families, and the broader community.
• Build relationships with healthcare partners, regulatory bodies, and the community to further develop the hospice's reach and impact.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory and quality standards within the hospice sector, maintaining accreditation and licenses.

Hays Civil Engineering is delighted to be partnering on a retained basis with Roughan & O'Donovan (ROD) a firm of civil, structural, and environmental engineering consultants.


The company has been established for 50 years and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Current annual revenues exceed £20M and employee numbers exceed 200. ROD has an office in Otley near Leeds and two offices in Dublin. There are 12 shareholders of ROD, all of whom are full-time employees of the company.

The office in Otley was established in 2019 and a separate operating company, Roughan and O'Donovan UK Ltd, was incorporated in 2018. There are currently 19 people working in the Otley office with a plan to increase this over the coming years.

Current UK projects the team are involved in are:

• A5 Western Transport Corridor ECI,
• A6 Dungiven to Drumahoe D&B,
• Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside Bridge,
• A47 Harfrey's Roundabout and
• Herring Bridge and Approaches, Great Yarmouth and
• Cross Tay Link Road.

Whilst these are major highways and bridge projects, there is an extensive element of Active Travel, SUDS, Environment and Geotechnical elements to them with a keen focus on sustainability.

Past projects include:

• A6 Randaltown to Castledawson,
• A1231 Northern Spire and approaches and
• M8-M73-M74 Motorway Upgrade.

Revenues at ROD UK Ltd are currently of the order of £2M per annum. ROD has an extensive portfolio of past projects in the Highways & Transportation sector in Ireland, having provided services to public-sector, contractor and PPP clients on more than 500km of motorway projects, and Greenways for instance.

ROD is also a market leader in Urban Realm and Active Travel project design in Ireland and has been requested to provide training in this sector in the UK based on our large portfolio of completed projects. Sustainability and liveability are cornerstones of our design philosophy, and we strive to incorporate circular economy principles in all of our project designs. ROD has targeted the UK market as its principal growth area and is now seeking to recruit an Associate/Technical Director to support the further growth of the ROD UKL business in that sector.
This role is ideal for an individual with a proven ability to provide technical leadership, to develop professional teams, and to provide high quality service to clients. The successful candidate will hold a senior transportation design leadership position in an engineering consultancy and will have the ambition to lead that discipline within the expanding ROD UKL team.

The position will be based in the Otley office.
Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the transportation team, overseeing, supporting, advising and coaching the engineering professionals.
• Supervise highways and transportation projects, lead design evolution and checking with full technical responsibility for deliverables, assign responsibilities and allocate resources efficiently.
• Lead and direct bidding efforts for new highways and transportation projects.
• Be part of the management team in the wider ROD Transportation Group, including organising ROD UKL inputs to projects in Ireland and coordinating resources in Ireland to support UK bidding and projects.
• Maintain excellent levels of customer service.
• Report to the Managing Director of the ROD UKL business.
• Undertake group-wide management functions allocated by the Board.

Required Skills and Experience

• A Chartered Engineer with a university degree.
• Excellent technical skills in the design of highways, streets, and transportation projects.
• Experienced Bid Manager, excellent bid writing and tender price estimation skills.
• Commercial and financial acumen.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Capable of representing the company with clients and external parties.
• Experience of traffic network analysis is desirable but not essential.

What you'll get in return

• An opportunity to join an established consultancy, offering the autonomy to run the Highways discipline and the strategic goals for future success, by further developing strong new and existing client relationships and maintaining their reputation for quality delivery and ongoing service.
• As a business, they take pride in offering their people consistent progression. Their people are their main priority, which is why they offer a flexible and hybrid working environment for those that choose to utilise it. They also ensure the Leeds office is open 5 days a week for individuals that prefer to work in an office environment too.
• They retain their people by offering long-term, stable, and progressive careers, including supporting continued learning and setting career goals suited to the individual and business.
• A competitive package is available, and you can expect to achieve a basic salary of £70k-£85k depending on experience, plus bonus and benefits associated with this level of appointment.

What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, please call Karly Clark-Head of Engineering, on 07802 200 492 or click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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Your new company

Barnardo's Gap Homes is an ambitious and innovative programme, established in response to the chronic shortage of suitable quality housing for care experienced young people, and other vulnerable groups. Barnardo's is committed to a build programme of 50 new community-based homes in 10 locations across the UK, in partnership with Local Authorities. The Programme is expanding at pace and we now require a highly motivated and experienced construction professional to join the Gap Homes Team.

Your new role

Reporting to the Head of Business for Gap Homes, you will have responsibility and oversight of the UK Gap Homes Construction Programme.You will manage all aspects of the Gap Homes construction programme from inception to completion, overseeing Pre-Construction services including site viability, design and planning submissions. You will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. Strong communication skills are essential, as are effective procurement and management of consultants and contractors that support the design and construction of Gap Homes. This role offers the autonomy to work from home. However, travel is required for site visits and team meetings, minimised where possible by using digital technology.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be a driven and dynamic team player, a stickler for detail, with a proven ability to lead and influence construction project implementation and completion. Experience of delivering construction projects within the housing sector is essential, with specific experience of smaller residential developments an advantage. The role will involve the successful production of accessible reports, project plans, risk assessments and management information. Excellent written and oral communication is essential, along with time management and the ability to prioritise workload and achieve deadlines.

What you'll get in return

In return, you will get a competitive salary of between £55,000 and £71,000 depending on your previous experience. Other benefits include access to the pension scheme, annual leave and softer benefits. Full-time hours are preferred, although part-time hours may be considered.

What you need to do now

Our recruitment partner for this position is Tom Watson at Hays. Please provide a covering letter and CV when applying for this role. Your covering letter should be no longer than a page and it should demonstrate how you are right for the role and how you align with the values of Barnardo's and Gap Homes.

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Our mission is to digitise, connect and transform the health and social care system. This means ensuring core digital capabilities are rolled out across the system – including digitised patient records and cyber security standards; connecting up our systems so that data can be safely shared to improve health and social care outcomes – for example, developing a Federated Data Platform and Secure Data Environments; and transforming models of care for patients, service users and the public – for example, developing the NHS App to act as the front door for the NHS, using technology to support care in the home; and creating the right environment for the adoption of innovation.

Joint Digital Policy Unit consists of:

Cyber Security Policy, Compliance and Programme: responsible for setting strategy, standards and policy on cyber across health and social care.

Digital Policy & Programmes: responsible for priority digital policy, strategy and programmes including: AI, data and digital technology policy, social care digitisation,

DHSC Digital, Data & Technology central team.

Job Role

The Deputy Director – Tech Policy, Implementation and Data Analytics sits in Digital Policy and Programmes directorate.

This division is at the heart of developing and implementing policy, enabling teams to drive forward DPU’s key priorities. It responds to
emerging priorities in health technology - picking up often urgent cross-cutting projects,msupporting the implementation of wider programmes, building policy capability across the NHSE’s Transformation Directorate, and carrying out key departmental functions on behalf of DHSC.

The division is at the heart of developing and implementing policy, enabling teams to drive forward DPU’s key priorities.

This is an exciting post, supporting government to delivery on its health objectives by digitally transforming the NHS. We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic policy professional to lead the Tech Policy division of around 18 people.

Key Responsibilities

As Deputy Director – Tech Policy, Implementation and Data Analytics your key responsibilities will include:

• leading policy of several of the key delivery programmes in the Transformation Directorate, including electronic patient records, leading the division to provide expert policy input and engaging with Ministers;
• engaging with policy teams across the Department and NHSE to ensure that digital health is considered as a key enabler to their strategies and policy delivery, e.g. feeding into the 10-year plan for health and the SR;
• engaging internationally, both bilaterally and via the Global Digital Health Partnership and other multilateral fora, to learn from and work collaboratively with other countries;
• the DPU’s Implementation Unit, an internal consultancy service within the Directorate. It provides policy and implementation expertise to solve and support work on health and social care’s biggest digital and transformation challenges;
• the DPU’s internal data and analytics team – a small team comprising analysts and data scientists.

You will also, of course, play your role in leading the wider DPU as part of a cadre of around 10 other DDs and Band 9s.

Chief Architect
Leeds
Circa £115,000

Your new company
Hays Technology are recruiting a Chief Architect to join a growing public sector organisation in the Leeds area.

Your new role
In your new role, you will be defining, developing, and maintaining the technology architecture and lifecycle delivery roadmap for the organisation's technology estate, whilst devising, establishing, and managing a technology governance approach for IT services. You will be consulting senior-level stakeholders across the organisation to identify business and technology needs and to optimise the use of technology.

You will be delivering the technology and systems dimension within the organisation's wider operational resilience framework, including BC/DR plans, whilst overseeing and assisting in building relationships with vendors, creating cost-efficient contracts and managing escalations to resolution. You will be overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organisation's technology infrastructure, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of technology systems and networks.

What you'll need to succeed

• Demonstrable experience of Technology delivery with a successful track record of delivering and operating effective IT solutions
• Relationship management, including demonstrable experience of representing IT with C-Suite, Senior Management colleagues and 3rd party Service Providers
• Defining, transforming, and managing an IT function
• Proven ability to manage budgets and resourcing
• Demonstrable experience of operating effectively in a challenging delivery focused environment containing blended teams (e.g. permanent, contract, vendor, MSPs)
• Experience leading and motivating small teams to deliver sustained high performance

What you'll get in return
This exciting position is paying up to £105,000 negotiable on experience and offers an excellent work life balance including: a flexible 10% bonus, hybrid working, generous annual leave, 20% employer contribution pension scheme, flexibility, training, and development opportunities.

What you need to do now
If you\'re interested in this role, click \'apply now\' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn\'t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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