Job summary
Hertfordshire is rich in diversity, heritage, culture, and opportunity; it is our home, and we are proud of it. We are ambitious for our Trust's future and for the people who live and work here.
As Head of Resourcing for the Trust, you are key to ensure we have recruited the best people into the organisation. The post holder is responsible delivering a set of key People resourcing, job matching and work towards establishing a resourcing 'Centre of excellence.'
Reporting to the Associate Director of People Operations and as an integral member of the people senior team, the Head of Resourcing is responsible for provision of high quality strategic and transactional services for the Resourcing function with a passion for continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
You will actively lead the general and medical resourcing teams, create coherent talent pipelines, and lead the job matching process for the organisation ensuring our recruitment processes and systems are streamlined, inclusive and enable ENHT to attract a diverse people base.
We are looking for someone who embraces change, who will make an impact and enable our resourcing team's delivery meeting business priorities and setting us up for future success.
Incorporating the 'ENH Production System' model you will be motivated to lead and showcase Resourcing as part of our organisation wide commitment to continuous improvement through a series of rapid improvement workshops.
As an organisation we promote autonomy where leaders and managers can make active decisions. Crucial will be your ability to actively develop the team around you, support colleagues across the organisation on key recruitment initiative
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification or relevant experience in a senior Resourcing role in a large complex organisation
- Deep and detailed knowledge of resourcing principles and practices gained through experience and development.
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate professional body, CIPD for example
- Trained in Agenda for Change job matching activities.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also supporting and encouraging the work of teams/individuals.
- A strong influencer with proven experience in taking colleagues through significant business change.
Desirable
- Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to persuade and influence and present information in a compelling, concise and appropriate way that is suitable for the audience.
- Ability to manage complex service delivery within a challenging environment.
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Critical thinking skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
Knowledge
Essential
- Familiarity with a variety of diverse attraction and selection methods
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to resourcing.
- Knowledge of the wider HR/People functions and agendas with the ability to fully understand the role that recruiting the right people plays in the wider picture.
- Fully conversant with the NHS People Plan and NHS Long Term Plan priorities and how they affect and influence Resourcing plans and aspirations.
Other requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role models our Trust values every day.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent qualification or relevant experience in a senior Resourcing role in a large complex organisation
- Deep and detailed knowledge of resourcing principles and practices gained through experience and development.
Desirable
- Membership of appropriate professional body, CIPD for example
- Trained in Agenda for Change job matching activities.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also supporting and encouraging the work of teams/individuals.
- A strong influencer with proven experience in taking colleagues through significant business change.
Desirable
- Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to persuade and influence and present information in a compelling, concise and appropriate way that is suitable for the audience.
- Ability to manage complex service delivery within a challenging environment.
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda.
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Critical thinking skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
Knowledge
Essential
- Familiarity with a variety of diverse attraction and selection methods
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to resourcing.
- Knowledge of the wider HR/People functions and agendas with the ability to fully understand the role that recruiting the right people plays in the wider picture.
- Fully conversant with the NHS People Plan and NHS Long Term Plan priorities and how they affect and influence Resourcing plans and aspirations.
Other requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and seeks out innovation.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role models our Trust values every day.
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).
