Competitive Salary – Very Senior Manager (VSM) Circa £100,000
Interview date Monday 16 December 2024
We have an opportunity for an ambitious, highly motivated, experienced and skilled HR professional to join the People Directorate as Deputy Chief People Officer to help lead the full roll out of our People Plan and the introduction of a new HR Business Partner model. The essence of this work is to strategically support our clinical and corporate teams to ensure we focus on People, not Process.
We are seeking a strategic thinker with a can-do attitude who will modernise and improve our people services, deliver change and get the job done.
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The Deputy CPO will report directly to the Chief People Officer and be a member of the CIPD with a successful track record in a senior HR role.
For further information about the job please review the recruitment pack under 'supporting documents' or 'documents to download'.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Deputy Chief People Officer (Deputy CPO) is a pivotal member of the People Directorate’s senior leadership team and will support the Chief People Officer in the overall leadership and management of the People directorate function. This will include leading the development and implementation of the People Strategy, enabling the Trusts to recruit, retain and develop the best workforce to deliver its goals and objectives and support high quality patient care. In addition, the Deputy CPO will ensure that key transactional people directorate functions deliver to our Clinical board and corporate areas, facilitating and enabling high levels of workforce engagement and performance to support delivery of the Trusts’ strategic and performance goals and its improvement priorities.
The Deputy CPO has a wide-ranging and extensive portfolio including:
• Leading strategy and policy
• Overseeing governance, risk and performance indicators for the directorate
• Lead on communications and stakeholder management
• Manage the newly developing HRBP model/partners which will support clinical and corporate areas
• Strategic workforce planning.
The Deputy CPO will support the CPO in providing support to members of the Executive team and the Trust Board in relation to strategic, sensitive and complex people issues. The postholder will deputise for the CPO as required, including general oversight of the other key functional areas.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Dec 2024
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