Job summary
Are you a seasoned expert in strategic workforce planning, ready to take on a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare delivery? We're seeking a dynamic Head of Workforce Transformation & Planning to play a pivotal role in our transformation journey.
As we embark on ambitious projects like our Community and In Patient Tranformation Programmes, your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring we have the skilled workforce needed to meet tomorrow's healthcare challenges head-on.
In this key role, you'll lead the development of strategic workforce plans that align with our Trust's vision, national initiatives, and service innovations. You'll be the linchpin between analysis, strategy, and execution, driving complex workforce planning, transformation, and organisational design for major projects and ensuring alignment with our strategic goals.
Main duties of the job
As the Head of Workforce Transformation, you'll lead our approach to workforce planning. Your strategic acumen and ability to collaborate with others will guide the development and implementation of workforce transformation and planning strategies.
The postholder will lead on workforce transformation and development programmes across the Trust and support workforce planning across core services, including the development of a fully costed workforce plan.
Working closely with a team of senior Workforce & OD professionals, the postholder will be the lead workforce representative within relevant programmes of transformation, providing workforce expertise to relevant programmes of work and leading on the implementation of relevant pieces of work.
Additionally the postholder, working closely with the Head of Education and Development will lead the development of the Trust's strategic workforce plan and associated monitoring of the implementation of that plan.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Leading the team providing workforce support to our New Hospital Programme, developing and delivering on all aspects of the project relating to our people, and working closely across our existing people directorate teams.
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Develop strong working relationships and providing expert workforce and HR advice to impact decisions, support initiatives, clarify accountability, and communicate progress across project workstreams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Leading the team providing workforce support to our New Hospital Programme, developing and delivering on all aspects of the project relating to our people, and working closely across our existing people directorate teams.
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Develop strong working relationships and providing expert workforce and HR advice to impact decisions, support initiatives, clarify accountability, and communicate progress across project workstreams.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant subject plus further training or experience to Master's level
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Member status of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent professional, accredited recognised body
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of workforce and OD service improvement interventions working with Subject Matter Experts / Advisors and multiprofessional groups at a senior level.
- Leading and managing directly employed staff and associated budgets
- Significant demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these to a shared service environment.
- Developing and monitoring service level agreements (SLAs) with internal and external providers
- Business planning
- Senior management experience in the NHS
- Experience of delivering strategic objectives for a diverse and complex department
- Experience of effectively working at management level in the field of HR for an organisation of relevant scale and complexity.
- Experience of delivering strategic objectives for a diverse and complex department
- Experience of building, leading, motivating and developing multidisciplinary teams and as a highly effective people manager
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent demonstrable knowledge of current resourcing legislation, case law and HR good practice
- Excellent knowledge of terms and conditions, benefits and payroll
- Strong technical knowledge on electronic storage and information systems and ability to compile, interpret and present complex information.
- An understanding of the strategic approach to Human
- Strong technical knowledge on governance as it applies to workforce and OD
- An understanding of the NHS agenda around governance assurance and HR.
- Up to date working knowledge of Workforce and service improvement approaches within the NHS
- An understanding of the strategic approach to Human Resources
- Demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these complex organisational designs
- Up to date knowledge of HR and issues from a best practice perspective
Desirable
- Principles and theories of change management and leadership
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Effective interpersonal skills, proven ability to read situations and obtain commitment from others
- Excellent leadership and influencing skills with a range of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively and co-operatively with colleagues and other partners gaining real commitment from others
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues and provide practical and creative solutions to problems Ability to translate complex information and explain things In a clear and concise way to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Excellent verbal communication, influencing, collaboration and negotiating skills
- Outstanding presentation skills.
- The ability to work as a team member, both within teams internally and as an accomplished participant in cross-agency teams
- Professional HR role model.
- The ability to work with senior management, clinical colleagues and other staff, to make sound judgments and respond positively to a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to continually review service and recognise inefficiencies.
- Experience of managing an HR team and responding to a rapidly evolving workforce development agenda.
- Partnership working and working knowledge of the National Strategies and other supporting initiatives
- Innovative thinking and the ability to explore imaginative ways of optimising use of resources.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Proven ability to build personal and professional credibility with management and corporate services and staff
- Open, transparent style, collaborative and supportive. Committed to developing a culture of openness and partnership
- Demonstrates emotional resilience and intelligence in the face of competing demands and conflict
- A flexibility of style and approach to succeed in managing and leading in a collaborative way
- Committed to the continuous development of self and others
- Self-aware, understands impact of own behaviour on others
- Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant subject plus further training or experience to Master's level
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Member status of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent professional, accredited recognised body
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of workforce and OD service improvement interventions working with Subject Matter Experts / Advisors and multiprofessional groups at a senior level.
- Leading and managing directly employed staff and associated budgets
- Significant demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these to a shared service environment.
- Developing and monitoring service level agreements (SLAs) with internal and external providers
- Business planning
- Senior management experience in the NHS
- Experience of delivering strategic objectives for a diverse and complex department
- Experience of effectively working at management level in the field of HR for an organisation of relevant scale and complexity.
- Experience of delivering strategic objectives for a diverse and complex department
- Experience of building, leading, motivating and developing multidisciplinary teams and as a highly effective people manager
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent demonstrable knowledge of current resourcing legislation, case law and HR good practice
- Excellent knowledge of terms and conditions, benefits and payroll
- Strong technical knowledge on electronic storage and information systems and ability to compile, interpret and present complex information.
- An understanding of the strategic approach to Human
- Strong technical knowledge on governance as it applies to workforce and OD
- An understanding of the NHS agenda around governance assurance and HR.
- Up to date working knowledge of Workforce and service improvement approaches within the NHS
- An understanding of the strategic approach to Human Resources
- Demonstrable expertise in systems and processes and the application of these complex organisational designs
- Up to date knowledge of HR and issues from a best practice perspective
Desirable
- Principles and theories of change management and leadership
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Effective interpersonal skills, proven ability to read situations and obtain commitment from others
- Excellent leadership and influencing skills with a range of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively and co-operatively with colleagues and other partners gaining real commitment from others
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues and provide practical and creative solutions to problems Ability to translate complex information and explain things In a clear and concise way to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Excellent verbal communication, influencing, collaboration and negotiating skills
- Outstanding presentation skills.
- The ability to work as a team member, both within teams internally and as an accomplished participant in cross-agency teams
- Professional HR role model.
- The ability to work with senior management, clinical colleagues and other staff, to make sound judgments and respond positively to a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to continually review service and recognise inefficiencies.
- Experience of managing an HR team and responding to a rapidly evolving workforce development agenda.
- Partnership working and working knowledge of the National Strategies and other supporting initiatives
- Innovative thinking and the ability to explore imaginative ways of optimising use of resources.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Proven ability to build personal and professional credibility with management and corporate services and staff
- Open, transparent style, collaborative and supportive. Committed to developing a culture of openness and partnership
- Demonstrates emotional resilience and intelligence in the face of competing demands and conflict
- A flexibility of style and approach to succeed in managing and leading in a collaborative way
- Committed to the continuous development of self and others
- Self-aware, understands impact of own behaviour on others
- Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
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).
