Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site HR Director
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Job Summary
Are you an experienced senior HR leader looking for an opportunity to influence workforce strategy at both Trust and Group level?
We are seeking an exceptional Site HR Director to join Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment. As a key member of the Trust leadership team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across all workforce, organisational development, employee relations and people matters, supporting the delivery of safe, inclusive and effective services.
Reporting to the Group Chief People Officer and working closely with the Trust Managing Director, you will lead the local delivery of the BSW Hospitals Group People Strategy while also holding a Group portfolio for HR Operations, with responsibility for key services including Resourcing and Employee Relations across the Group.
Main duties of the job
- You will also lead the HR Business Partner team at Great Western Hospitals, ensuring high-quality people support to services across the Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape workforce transformation, drive organisational performance, strengthen staff engagement and wellbeing, and lead significant people initiatives across a complex NHS environment. The successful candidate will bring substantial senior HR leadership experience, strong strategic and political awareness, and a proven ability to influence at an Executive level.
If you are a values-led, inclusive leader with the ambition to make a difference across both a hospital site and a Group-wide portfolio, we would welcome your application.
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About Us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
The Site People Director will lead local workforce and OD delivery within the BSW Hospitals Group ("the Group"), providing strategic and operational leadership for all people-related matters within their Trust. As a key member of the senior leadership (including the Executive team) the role will support safe, inclusive, and effective service delivery through workforce planning, culture change, organisational development, and employee relations.
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Person Specification
Knowledge, Training And Experience Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must understand 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 Department of Health and Social Care, Regional and National teams and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Membership with CIPD with FCIPD or MCIPD.
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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.
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