Band 8b

4 days ago

Watford Hertfordshire, United Kingdom West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a pivotal leadership role within the workforce directorate at West Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, destined to play a vital role in shaping and securing the future of our workforce capabilities.
As the Head of Strategic Workforce Transformation, you will be responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to ensure we have the right people, in the right places, with the right skills, to deliver outstanding patient care and achieve our overall organisational goals.
The successful candidate will lead the strategic workforce planning agenda for the medical staffing function as well exploring other systems to improve workforce efficiency, working closely with colleagues and wider stakeholders from across the Trust, supporting the workforce plan effectively and bring to life the ambitions within the People and OD Plan.
Working with the Senior Leadership Team the post holder will lead on the development of workforce plans within the NHS Operational Planning Cycle, providing critical oversight and support to enhance the effectiveness of HR services and systems.
The post holder will also be accountable for shaping and implementing the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy and plan. Develop and lead the implementation of our strategic workforce systems plan, including the alignment of workforce plans with the Trust's overall strategy, conducting workforce analysis and forecasting, identifying skill gaps, and developing solutions, and ensuring effective resource allocation.
Develop excellent working relationships and communicate proactively with a network of stakeholders both internal and external. Ensure staff are fully engaged and involved during all stages of service transformation/performance improvement activities from diagnostics, design through to delivery.
Decide on the type of data and information that is required to support service transformation/performance improvement/workforce planning activities and select the optimum method for collecting and analysing the necessary data/information. Post Graduate Management Qualification/MBA
Quality improvement qualification or equivalent

Substantial recent management experience in temporary staffing, medical locums and systems development
Experience of providing people management services to a wide range of staff from different professional or occupational backgrounds
Previous management experience, demonstrating ability to provide direction, enable others to perform and holding to account for performance
Demonstrable experience of Business Planning and Service redesign
Extensive experience of formalised workforce planning, key workforce information and delivery
Clear understanding and experience of Budget Management and cost improvement responsibilities
Experience of successfully leading and delivering on HR/OD projects and designing/using interventions to facilitate and implement change
Experience of policy review and development
Working knowledge of quality improvement tools and techniques

Project management experience with a range of Stakeholders, delivering to time, cost and quality


Able to demonstrate a commercial and business acumen and an understanding of how high impact HR/OD can positively impact on the patient experience, quality and efficiency agenda and organisational goals
Ability to persuade and influence Aptitude for offering creative and innovative solutions
Able to demonstrate emotional resilience and intelligence in the face of competing demands and conflict.
Report writing skills.
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Watford General Hospital

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