Job summary
Join MFT as our Director of People and drive your career to new heights at one of the largest and most complex NHS Trusts in England.This newly created role means you have the opportunity to shape, influence, and build how and where you want it to impact. Reporting directly to the Deputy Chief People Officer, you will be working in collaboration with our six Clinical Group Directors of Workforce and OD and will be instrumental in leading, shaping, and guiding the Employee Health and Wellbeing service, Corporate HR Business Partnering, and Medical Workforce teams. Most importantly, you will be horizon scanning, setting the strategic direction and the standardisation of the People Profession across the Trust, using the MFT People Plan as an enabler for change. You will have autonomy to drive workforce transformation strategically and skillfully, achieved by influencing decision-making and increasing organisational and individual awareness of exceptional people practice, through the introduction, development, and maintenance of leading-edge interventions.
As for you, you are passionate about all things 'people', recognised as a role model leader with a compassionate and supportive style, an eagerness to empower others in decision making, with the expertise to encourage our teams to know they make valuable contributions, leading to a high-performing, inclusive, open, and transparent culture.
Interested? Then please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- With extensive experience working at a senior management level in a health, social care, or similar large complex organisations, you will provide effective leadership within the Workforce Business Directorate, ensuring individual contributions are maximised, and development needs are met, creating a truly integrated workforce service.
- With a successful record in service improvement and change, delivered across a complex organisation, you will make a significant contribution to the overall success of the Trust, setting and implementing strategic objectives as part of the MFT People Plan and other key Trust Strategies.
- With significant experience in providing advice on employment matters in a large, complex, multi-professional organisation, you will lead the development and maintenance of MFT-wide workforce policies.
- With a thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering large-scale employee engagement initiatives, you will work with other colleagues to influence how the employee experience shapes organisational direction, strategy, and focus, using the MFT People Plan as an enabler for change.
- With considerable experience in developing and applying workforce & OD strategies, employment law and policies, you will actively engage in national policy development, Greater Manchester and Northwest Region strategy and change, researching best practice across the NHS, ensuring MFT is innovative in its approach to the people profession.
About us
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester, the largest health academic campus in Europe. We are an ambitious organisation, serving over 1 million patients and users annually through our 10 hospitals and extensive community services. With a workforce of 30,000 plus, we are a driving force for innovation, clinical excellence, and system leadership across Greater Manchester.
As a senior leader at MFT, you will shape strategy and transformation at scale, working alongside a diverse, high-performing executive team. Our £3bn plus turnover and leading-edge digital infrastructure, including the Hive EPR, enable us to deliver integrated, patient-centred care and drive continuous improvement.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, values-led culture where your expertise, vision, and leadership will directly influence organisational direction and population health outcomes. You will have the opportunity to lead complex change, champion research and innovation, and develop future talent in a supportive, collaborative environment.
Join us to make a lasting impact--on our Trust, our communities, and the future of healthcare.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To view this pack, please visit: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/1-2/
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
Candidate Information Pack
To support this vacancy, we have developed a bespoke Candidate Information Pack which provides specific information about the role and the Selection Process. To view this pack, please visit: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/1-2/
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications - Academic / Professional
Essential
- High level of general education to degree level or equivalent.
- Educated to Master's level or holder of relevant professional qualification in Organisational Development, Change, Social Psychology or similar field.
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Track record of continuous personal and professional development.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to operate at Director level or immediate next tier within large complex NHS organisation.
- Experience of working to and supporting a Board Director.
- Proven applied knowledge on employee experience / staff engagement, equality, health and wellbeing and related issues at both a strategic and operational level within a large complex organisation.
- Evidence of well-developed project management skills.
- Highly developed problem solving, analytical and interpretative skills with a proven ability to analyse and interpret data to identify trends and variances.
- Ability to analyse both strategic and operational problems and develop innovative and practical solutions and to progress these through to implementation.
- Excellent influencing skills.
- Ability to respond and deliver in a complex and rapidly changing environment where there is a high level of ambiguity and fixed time constraints.
- Ability to work under pressure and to assess and manage competing priorities.
- Ability to delegate work and to supervise work in progress to required timescales.
- Highly effective interpersonal skills to facilitate collaborative working with a wide range of stakeholders to develop mature relationships with key partners and to develop effective networks.
- Excellent leadership skills - ability to negotiate and influence others across boundaries in a complex environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with a proven ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the legal framework surrounding employment.
Desirable
- Transformation or improvement qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading and delivering service improvement and change projects across a complex organisation.
- Extensive experience working at senior management level in a health or social care organisation.
- Significant experience of providing advice on workforce matters working a in large, complex, multi-professional organisation.
- Demonstrable experience of managing staff and employee relations.
- Considerable experience of developing and applying HR strategies, employment law and policies.
- Proven experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders and relationship management.
- A thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering staff engagement initiatives, team development, leadership and management and other training.
- Experience at a senior management or professional level, with staff management and financial / budgetary responsibilities, within a healthcare or similar complex organisation.
- Experience of procurement and management of external consultancy contracts.
- Experience of strategic thinking at a senior level.
- Experience of undertaking organisation / team diagnostic needs assessments and analysis.
- Experience of presenting to and facilitating small and large diverse groups at all levels.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Effective interpersonal skills and personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of and build relationships with others, including managers, clinicians and staff.
- Innovation & Creativity - ability to make decisions that encourage new ways of working and develop a culture of innovation.
- Achievement focused - ability to set targets and get things done to achieve continuous improvement.
- Politically astute.
- Flexible and willing to commit to achieving results and meeting deadlines.
- Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
- Initiative - sees opportunities and acts on them - proactive rather than reactive approach.
- Aware of own limitations.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Able to adapt style to the needs of a diverse environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications - Academic / Professional
Essential
- High level of general education to degree level or equivalent.
- Educated to Master's level or holder of relevant professional qualification in Organisational Development, Change, Social Psychology or similar field.
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Track record of continuous personal and professional development.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to operate at Director level or immediate next tier within large complex NHS organisation.
- Experience of working to and supporting a Board Director.
- Proven applied knowledge on employee experience / staff engagement, equality, health and wellbeing and related issues at both a strategic and operational level within a large complex organisation.
- Evidence of well-developed project management skills.
- Highly developed problem solving, analytical and interpretative skills with a proven ability to analyse and interpret data to identify trends and variances.
- Ability to analyse both strategic and operational problems and develop innovative and practical solutions and to progress these through to implementation.
- Excellent influencing skills.
- Ability to respond and deliver in a complex and rapidly changing environment where there is a high level of ambiguity and fixed time constraints.
- Ability to work under pressure and to assess and manage competing priorities.
- Ability to delegate work and to supervise work in progress to required timescales.
- Highly effective interpersonal skills to facilitate collaborative working with a wide range of stakeholders to develop mature relationships with key partners and to develop effective networks.
- Excellent leadership skills - ability to negotiate and influence others across boundaries in a complex environment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with a proven ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the legal framework surrounding employment.
Desirable
- Transformation or improvement qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading and delivering service improvement and change projects across a complex organisation.
- Extensive experience working at senior management level in a health or social care organisation.
- Significant experience of providing advice on workforce matters working a in large, complex, multi-professional organisation.
- Demonstrable experience of managing staff and employee relations.
- Considerable experience of developing and applying HR strategies, employment law and policies.
- Proven experience of collaborative working with a range of stakeholders and relationship management.
- A thorough understanding and practical experience of delivering staff engagement initiatives, team development, leadership and management and other training.
- Experience at a senior management or professional level, with staff management and financial / budgetary responsibilities, within a healthcare or similar complex organisation.
- Experience of procurement and management of external consultancy contracts.
- Experience of strategic thinking at a senior level.
- Experience of undertaking organisation / team diagnostic needs assessments and analysis.
- Experience of presenting to and facilitating small and large diverse groups at all levels.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Effective interpersonal skills and personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of and build relationships with others, including managers, clinicians and staff.
- Innovation & Creativity - ability to make decisions that encourage new ways of working and develop a culture of innovation.
- Achievement focused - ability to set targets and get things done to achieve continuous improvement.
- Politically astute.
- Flexible and willing to commit to achieving results and meeting deadlines.
- Sets high standards and motivated to achieve these.
- Initiative - sees opportunities and acts on them - proactive rather than reactive approach.
- Aware of own limitations.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Able to adapt style to the needs of a diverse environment.
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).
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).
