Job summary
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) delivers community-based healthcare services to the 1.2 million residents of Birmingham and specialist services across the West Midlands region.
We are committed to delivering the best care we can to those who need our services and to working with our partners within the Birmingham, Solihull and The Black Country to help build healthy communities. We are one of the largest providers of NHS community services in the country, with over 5,000 colleagues working across 200 sites and an annual turnover of £400 million. We are at the forefront of developing "neighbourhood health" and integrated models of care that support people to stay well in their homes and communities.
We serve some of the most deprived communities and most ethnically diverse communities in the country and we recognise the importance of tackling inequality and its impact on health and life chances.
We know that we can only deliver successfully through our people. Our vision, underpinned by our values, commits us to becoming a Great Place to Work supporting our colleagues to deliver for our patients and service users. We have made good progress towards this ambition in recent years but we know we have more to do to consistently embed a culture based on our values.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a compassionate, inclusive and inspiring leader to join the team as Chief People Officer. The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trust's organisational development, human resources and workforce development functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed an organisational culture based on our Trust values.
We are looking for a values-led leader with significant experience of leading organisational development, leading people and workforce strategies within a large and complex organisation. Senior experience, ability and a passion for community services and the people who provide them are more important than specific-sector experience. Above all you will share our values and our commitment to Best Care: Healthy Communities.
About us
This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of the largest Community Trusts.
The Chief People Officer will play an active part in the development of our partnerships across the Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country system. The postholder will play a full role in regional and national networks representing the work of the Trust to stakeholders including NHS England.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trusts organisational development, human resources and workforce functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed a culture based on our values. The Chief People Officer will:
- lead our approach to organisational development, engagement and leadership building a compassionate, inclusive and improving culture;
- ensure an effective approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues including the prevention and management of sickness absence;
- work closely with Staff Networks to lead our work on workforce equality and inclusion including our commitment to be an actively anti-racist organisation;
- ensurethe provision of an effective business partner Human Resources function including recruitment, employee relations, payroll and temporary staffing;
- with Executive Team colleagues, lead the development of our workforce for the future including workforce planning and workforce information systems, preparing us for an increasingly multi-disciplinary and mult-agency future as we develop integrated care in localities and neighbourhoods;
- ensure a high-impact and responsive approach to our internal and external organisational communications.
The Chief People Officer is a non-voting Executive Director and will play a full role in the work of the Board in setting strategy and culture and ensuring delivery. The postholder will be the lead Executive Director for the work of the BCHC Charity.
Although all Directors have responsibility for delivery across the three strategic objectives that the Trust has set as part our vision, the Chief People Officer has particular responsibility for working with colleagues to deliver our ambition to become a Great Place to Work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trusts organisational development, human resources and workforce functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed a culture based on our values. The Chief People Officer will:
- lead our approach to organisational development, engagement and leadership building a compassionate, inclusive and improving culture;
- ensure an effective approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues including the prevention and management of sickness absence;
- work closely with Staff Networks to lead our work on workforce equality and inclusion including our commitment to be an actively anti-racist organisation;
- ensurethe provision of an effective business partner Human Resources function including recruitment, employee relations, payroll and temporary staffing;
- with Executive Team colleagues, lead the development of our workforce for the future including workforce planning and workforce information systems, preparing us for an increasingly multi-disciplinary and mult-agency future as we develop integrated care in localities and neighbourhoods;
- ensure a high-impact and responsive approach to our internal and external organisational communications.
The Chief People Officer is a non-voting Executive Director and will play a full role in the work of the Board in setting strategy and culture and ensuring delivery. The postholder will be the lead Executive Director for the work of the BCHC Charity.
Although all Directors have responsibility for delivery across the three strategic objectives that the Trust has set as part our vision, the Chief People Officer has particular responsibility for working with colleagues to deliver our ambition to become a Great Place to Work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to first degree level. Ideally with qualification at Master's degree level, equivalent professional qualification or senior leadership experience
- oChartered membership of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) or equivalent professional qualification or accreditation
- oAble to evidence ongoing personal, professional and leadership development
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- oSenior people and organisational development leadership experience at or just below board level in a highly complex organisation.
- oSuccessful development, implementation and delivery of people and organisational development strategy
- oSuccessful delivery against people, culture, human resources and organisational development improvement targets
- oLeadership of workforce equality and inclusion strategies and experience of successful delivery of improvement in this area.
- oExpert understanding of human resources practice and the legal and regulatory frameworks associated with good employment and human resources practice.
- oExpert understanding of principles of equality and inclusion associated with a strong commitment to delivery.
- oDetailed knowledge of NHS workforce policy and regulatory frameworks (e.g. Care Quality Commission, General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Care Professions Council)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to first degree level. Ideally with qualification at Master's degree level, equivalent professional qualification or senior leadership experience
- oChartered membership of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) or equivalent professional qualification or accreditation
- oAble to evidence ongoing personal, professional and leadership development
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- oSenior people and organisational development leadership experience at or just below board level in a highly complex organisation.
- oSuccessful development, implementation and delivery of people and organisational development strategy
- oSuccessful delivery against people, culture, human resources and organisational development improvement targets
- oLeadership of workforce equality and inclusion strategies and experience of successful delivery of improvement in this area.
- oExpert understanding of human resources practice and the legal and regulatory frameworks associated with good employment and human resources practice.
- oExpert understanding of principles of equality and inclusion associated with a strong commitment to delivery.
- oDetailed knowledge of NHS workforce policy and regulatory frameworks (e.g. Care Quality Commission, General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health Care Professions Council)
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Headquarters
3 Priestley Wharf, Holt Street, Aston
Birmingham
B7 4BN
Employer's website
https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
