Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Senior Resourcing and Medical People and Culture Manager

The closing date is 11 November 2025

Job summary

Shape the Future of Resourcing Practices at NSFT

Are you passionate about innovative workforce solutions and improving people practices across the NHS? NSFT is seeking an influential Senior Resourcing, Rostering and Medical People and Culture Manager to lead our strategic response to recruitment, retention, and medical HR challenges. This is a pivotal role, directly impacting the quality of care we deliver and the experience of our staff.

What We're Looking For

  • Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent experience to master's level.
  • Significant experience at an operational and strategic level in workforce systems, information, and planning.
  • Proven ability to lead and manage teams, deliver customer-focused people services, and influence at senior levels.
  • Highly specialised knowledge in workforce systems, recruitment, medical HR, and equality and diversity issues.
  • Excellent analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills, with a proactive and solutions-focused approach.
  • Commitment to continuous personal and professional development.

Main duties of the job

As our Senior Resourcing, Rostering and Medical People and Culture Manager, you will:

  • Lead the Resourcing, Medical HR, and Temporary Staffing Teams, providing an effective, efficient, and customer-focused service that meets the changing needs of the NHS and NSFT.
  • Develop and deliver strategic workforce plans and innovative recruitment solutions, working collaboratively across the People and Culture Directorate, Finance, and Operational colleagues.
  • Ensure our Medical HR service supports safe, high-quality patient care and meets the needs of our clinical services.
  • Use high-quality workforce information and analysis to inform and influence strategic and tactical business planning.
  • Oversee compliance with employment governance, visa management, and regulatory requirements, ensuring robust systems and accurate reporting.
  • Champion continuous improvement in service quality, developing and implementing training and capability-building programmes for recruitment, medical job planning, and rostering.
  • Represent NSFT at internal and external forums, providing expert advice and acting as a role model for compassionate, person-centred leadership.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-HRS7587820

Job locations

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent relevant experience to masters level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Chartered Member of CIPD (MCIPD)
  • Masters degree in HR

Experience

Essential

  • Post qualification or equivalent experience at an operational and strategic level with responsibilities for workforce systems, information and workforce planning.
  • Experience of developing and delivering customer focused people services, working in close partnership with people and culture colleagues and wider stakeholders

Knowledge

Essential

  • Workforce information reporting and business intelligence
  • Recruitment & Medical HR
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent relevant experience to masters level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Chartered Member of CIPD (MCIPD)
  • Masters degree in HR

Experience

Essential

  • Post qualification or equivalent experience at an operational and strategic level with responsibilities for workforce systems, information and workforce planning.
  • Experience of developing and delivering customer focused people services, working in close partnership with people and culture colleagues and wider stakeholders

Knowledge

Essential

  • Workforce information reporting and business intelligence
  • Recruitment & Medical HR

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Director of HR

Catherine Castleton

catherine.castleton@nsft.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-HRS7587820

Job locations

Norfolk County Hall

Norwich

NR1 2DH


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