Job summary
Hampshire Hospitals are currently recruiting for an experienced Associate Director of Resourcing and Temporary Staffing for a 12-month maternity cover.
This role provides a rare opportunity to lead a large and diverse resourcing team spanning general, medical and international recruitment, temporary staffing and e-rostering. You will help to ensure we have the right people, in the right place, at the right time to deliver outstanding care for our patients.
You will have the skills to manage people, processes, and financial resources to ensure the supply and demand of the workforce is met.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our HR Senior Management Team and help shape our employee experience of our current and future workforce.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 18th June 2024.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and inspire high performance in the resourcing and temporary staffing teams, measuring performance through agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI), objective setting, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and customer feedback.
- Lead on reducing temporary staffing spend across the Trust, working closely with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to optimise resourcing and recruitment models and approaches.
- Develop proactive 'talent attraction' strategies to position the Trust as an 'Employer of Choice', including for hard to recruit/ skills shortage areas.
- Proactively develop recruitment pipelines and talent pools so there is a ready supply of a talented and diverse workforce ahead of demand.
- Champion equality and diversity in recruitment by devising sourcing techniques to recruit from under- represented groups within the Trusts and wider community.
- To drive roster efficiencies across the Trust.
- Understanding of ethical recruitment practices.
- Up to date legislation knowledge in relation to visa and immigration protocols.
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 7,500 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level, or equivalent experience
- Level 4 Diploma in Recruitment Management (CertRP) or ability to demonstrate knowledge and in depth understanding at equivalent level.
- Evidence of Continued professional development.
Desirable
- Chartered CIPD membership or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Management qualification.
- Proven experience at a senior level within a unionised environment.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Proven experience in leading large recruitment and selection services/teams, including delivery against operational SLAs and KPIs and people management.
- Demonstrable experience in managing high volume recruitment campaigns.
- Proven experience in the design, development and implementation of attraction, recruitment, selection and on-boarding strategies, processes, procedures and training for different audiences.
- Expert knowledge of employment legislation, specifically in relation to recruitment and resourcing.
- Working knowledge of process and systems automation.
- Demonstrable experience of international recruitment.
Desirable
- NHS/ healthcare experience.
- Knowledge of NHS workforce policies, strategies, initiatives, and employment contracts.
- Experience of business development and/or fee earning recruitment models.
- Experience and knowledge of Workforce Planning.
- Knowledge of NHS resourcing and temporary staffing systems, e.g., TRAC, ERostering etc.
- LEAN (or similar) methodology experience, for process improvement.
Skills & Ability
Essential
- Ability to inspire high performance, through strong leadership skills and role modelling.
- Demonstrable track record of strong negotiation, communication, customer focus and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to deliver projects on time and in full, with benefits realised.
- Track record for achieving significant measurable improvements, at an organisational level, across resourcing and recruitment services.
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, up to senior management levels.
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing including analysing and presenting information of a highly complex, sensitive, or contentious nature.
- Ability to deal with demanding and challenging service delivery, in a fast-paced environment, with customers at all levels.
Desirable
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across sites to undertake the full range of duties of the post.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.
- Ability to remain resilient in the face of adversity, stress, or pressure.
Desirable
- Cross-cultural experience.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level, or equivalent experience
- Level 4 Diploma in Recruitment Management (CertRP) or ability to demonstrate knowledge and in depth understanding at equivalent level.
- Evidence of Continued professional development.
Desirable
- Chartered CIPD membership or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Management qualification.
- Proven experience at a senior level within a unionised environment.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Proven experience in leading large recruitment and selection services/teams, including delivery against operational SLAs and KPIs and people management.
- Demonstrable experience in managing high volume recruitment campaigns.
- Proven experience in the design, development and implementation of attraction, recruitment, selection and on-boarding strategies, processes, procedures and training for different audiences.
- Expert knowledge of employment legislation, specifically in relation to recruitment and resourcing.
- Working knowledge of process and systems automation.
- Demonstrable experience of international recruitment.
Desirable
- NHS/ healthcare experience.
- Knowledge of NHS workforce policies, strategies, initiatives, and employment contracts.
- Experience of business development and/or fee earning recruitment models.
- Experience and knowledge of Workforce Planning.
- Knowledge of NHS resourcing and temporary staffing systems, e.g., TRAC, ERostering etc.
- LEAN (or similar) methodology experience, for process improvement.
Skills & Ability
Essential
- Ability to inspire high performance, through strong leadership skills and role modelling.
- Demonstrable track record of strong negotiation, communication, customer focus and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to deliver projects on time and in full, with benefits realised.
- Track record for achieving significant measurable improvements, at an organisational level, across resourcing and recruitment services.
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, up to senior management levels.
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing including analysing and presenting information of a highly complex, sensitive, or contentious nature.
- Ability to deal with demanding and challenging service delivery, in a fast-paced environment, with customers at all levels.
Desirable
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel across sites to undertake the full range of duties of the post.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role.
- Ability to remain resilient in the face of adversity, stress, or pressure.
Desirable
- Cross-cultural experience.
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
