Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Senior Leadership Team with
the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board for a
period of secondment or fixed term. We
are a large and complex system, serving a population of 1.8 million people, and
with a partnership that includes six NHS Providers, five local authorities,
five district councils and a multitude of other key partners including primary
care, Healthwatch and the voluntary and community sector.
The ICB has recently introduced a new operating model and
is undergoing restructuring to optimise delivery of this. The Director of People will provide
an essential role in embedding the change, from an HR and OD perspective.
For a confidential discussion please contact Sandra Grant,
Closing
date for applications: 25 October 2024
Shortlisting:
30 October 2024
Final panel
interviews: 7 November 2024
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Chief People Officer this is a key
position with the Senior People Team of the ICB. We are seeking a senior HR
professional with experience in Employee Relations, EDI, Culture transformation
and people leadership, ideally within a similar setting. In addition to providing Director level
leadership to the People Directorate, including cover for the Chief People
Officer during leave and when required, the role will lead on working with
external partners to create and implement health and care workforce strategies
and programmes. As the system is
currently undergoing a period of financial recovery, the Director of People
will work closely with workforce, finance and performance leaders within the
ICB and NHS Provider Trusts to receive assurance of the delivery of workforce
plans and reduction of pay bill costs.
The post will be responsible for managing EDI, Culture
Change, Apprenticeships and Widening Participation, HR Policy development,
Agile Working and the system Oliver McGowan Mandatory training programme, but
as we are a small team, the successful candidate will need to flex according to
the needs of the ICB/wider system.
Please review the job description to find out
more specific requirements of the role.
About us
In
the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers
the geography across three counties and goes in line with the local authority
boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and
Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While
overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we
have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our
constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3
acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance
trust and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of
public money each year.
We
value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for
all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the
communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership
and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and
minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from
people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all
under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will lead several priority people strategies (encompassing the
health, care and VCSE sectors) and work with system partners to define a coordinated
programme of delivery. These strategies will encompass how the BOB workforce
changes to deliver health and care more seamlessly,
leverages the advantages of high digital investment and meets the challenges
of demand versus supply.
Deputising for the
Chief People Officer, this post also has professional and managerial
responsibility for the People team for the ICB, providing an HR service to c450
core internal staff who work flexibly across organisational boundaries. The development of a one workforce HR
network infrastructure, encompassing NHS and non-NHS teams will be a primary aim.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will lead several priority people strategies (encompassing the
health, care and VCSE sectors) and work with system partners to define a coordinated
programme of delivery. These strategies will encompass how the BOB workforce
changes to deliver health and care more seamlessly,
leverages the advantages of high digital investment and meets the challenges
of demand versus supply.
Deputising for the
Chief People Officer, this post also has professional and managerial
responsibility for the People team for the ICB, providing an HR service to c450
core internal staff who work flexibly across organisational boundaries. The development of a one workforce HR
network infrastructure, encompassing NHS and non-NHS teams will be a primary aim.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered and accredited Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD) or able to evidence having commenced the upgrading process with CIPD or willing to undertake accreditation.
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Resilient, tenacious and the ability to achieve progress in delivering outcomes and improvements under pressure, managing multiple dependencies and risks across complex situations putting investment and resources to best use to minimise costs.
- Skilled in developing, managing and maintaining effective working relationships with a number of key stakeholders including, but not limited to, Trade Unions, Employee Relations legal experts and staff networks.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Experience
Essential
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following area(s):
- Substantial senior management experience in HR & OD roles, working at Head of Service level in a Workforce / HR/ OD role in a comparably complex organisation.
- Proven and significant leadership experience, engaging with, positively motivating and developing and appreciating team members.
- Demonstrated HR & OD expertise, ideally with experience of leading HR & OD teams.
- Substantial experience in developing and delivering plans, in partnership with Trade Unions and Employee Relations legal experts, to meet organisational priorities.
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to HR & OD including (but not limited to), organisational design, change management and partnership working.
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the ICB, ICS, NHS England / NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered and accredited Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered FCIPD) or able to evidence having commenced the upgrading process with CIPD or willing to undertake accreditation.
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Resilient, tenacious and the ability to achieve progress in delivering outcomes and improvements under pressure, managing multiple dependencies and risks across complex situations putting investment and resources to best use to minimise costs.
- Skilled in developing, managing and maintaining effective working relationships with a number of key stakeholders including, but not limited to, Trade Unions, Employee Relations legal experts and staff networks.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
Experience
Essential
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following area(s):
- Substantial senior management experience in HR & OD roles, working at Head of Service level in a Workforce / HR/ OD role in a comparably complex organisation.
- Proven and significant leadership experience, engaging with, positively motivating and developing and appreciating team members.
- Demonstrated HR & OD expertise, ideally with experience of leading HR & OD teams.
- Substantial experience in developing and delivering plans, in partnership with Trade Unions and Employee Relations legal experts, to meet organisational priorities.
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to HR & OD including (but not limited to), organisational design, change management and partnership working.
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the ICB, ICS, NHS England / NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
