Site Director of People and Culture

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to fill the role of Site Director of People and Culture. This is a key leadership position that will be responsible for developing and implementing people strategies across the Trust, working closely with the site leadership team to integrate services and provide tailored and responsive services to patients and staff.

• People Function Leadership
  • Collaborate with the design, delivery, and implementation of the Group People Strategy, contributing thought leadership, insight, and compelling stakeholder engagement.
  • Use data relating to services and employee/patient feedback to provide insights into people solutions, capitalizing on opportunities and mitigating risks.
  • Partner with leaders and employees to understand their current and future needs and contract with them effectively through other SLT members.
  • Integrate diversity and inclusion principles into all areas of our people practice.
  • Support the development of a continuous improvement approach to workforce transformation across site activities.
  • Coach and lead by example, to resolve conflict and build trust within teams and functions, working as a unitary member of the SLT.
  • Keep abreast of national developments in people practices and take a systemic system-wide approach to understanding and framing emerging organisational and system issues.
• Team Management and Development
  • Directly manage the People Business Partner function.
  • Provide ongoing guidance and managerial support to the team, leading by example and championing a learning culture.
  • Undertake coaching and performance management activities with teams and individuals, modeling behaviours of a good leader and to be able to give constructive feedback.
  • Ensure all team members are set objectives and KPIs, receive regular supervision, appraisals, and updated personal development plans.
  • Ensure the team is properly staffed to maintain a high level of service.
• Leadership and Transformation
  • Lead and manage the interface with Group shared services and specialist people management functions, ensuring there is clear hand-off and responsiveness to people-related needs on the hospital sites.
  • Build and manage the strategic capability of People Business Partners to enable and ensure the delivery of a high-quality service, with staff working to the top of their license.
  • Ensure the effective development of leadership and people management capability across the hospital site, so that staff are recruited, inducted, cared for, appropriately managed, effectively deployed, retained, developed professionally, and their concerns elicited and resolved in a timely and effective manner.
  • Inform, educate, and engage the site executive team on workforce risks and opportunities and work with the SLT for People Services in the development of innovative solutions that keep good staff experience at its heart.
  • Support the business through change by understanding culture, capability, processes, and structure, whilst mitigating people risks and maximizing benefits.
  • Understand the regulatory and legal environment in which services are delivered and managed, embedding the Just Culture principles in managing our wider workforce.
  • Oversee all local organisational change, ensuring workforce change and transformation across the site is managed to a high standard.
  • Deploy People strategies and plans locally to enable the Group to become an Outstanding Place to Work. These include enablers of the People, Wellbeing, and Diversity & Inclusion strategies, with an emphasis on employee and patient-led improvements for high engagement and sustainability.
  • Lead the workforce aspects of key organisational changes, including those impacting beyond their organisational boundaries, for example, partnering with the Group Executive Management team on workforce integration across the Group, bringing Epsom & St. Helier and St. George's Hospital together to provide better patient care.
  • Contribute to all the Group's workforce policies and strategies, and advise on the workforce implications of any local Trust-owned policies and strategies.
• Performance and Planning
  • Implement systems of good governance to ensure that services are managed effectively.
  • Contribute to business performance by being accountable for the effective review and management of People management budgets, demonstrating value for money in the way services are delivered.
  • Use workforce planning data to improve people practices and inform resourcing approaches. Work closely with other Hospital Directors and Divisional leaders to design and introduce new roles and flexible approaches to succession and contingency planning, putting workforce redesign at the heart of service transformation.
  • Lead on the resource planning of demand and supply of local Trust workforce, down to staff group and specialty levels. This will include short-term operational planning and medium-term, role, and skill mix changes to support developments in care provision.
  • Lead and implement local recruitment and temporary resourcing management to deliver Group plans in the most cost-effective way.
  • Interpret and use a range of data sources to make decisions and provide business insight and lead improvements to deliver upper quartile performance. Use evidence-based practice to challenge the status quo and to apply research and insights to deliver the local people strategy.
  • Build a strong People Services community that delivers a high-quality service to clients.
  • Continuously develop alongside the central teams workforce reporting systems and KPIs, ensuring effective use of workforce intelligence (including benchmark data) to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities and to inform wise workforce decisions.
  • Work collaboratively with site executives to generate insight into the performance of divisional teams, drawing on workforce, finance, operational, quality, and risk data to design interventions.
• Staff Experience and Culture
  • Lead and encourage a positive organisational culture, with an emphasis on wellbeing improvement, staff experience, and engagement.
  • Lead the development and promotion of a culture which supports change, lifelong learning, and continuous professional development to ensure that organisational learning is maximised in line with the workforce strategy.
  • Lead, manage, and provide appropriate facilitation and high-level specialist professional advice for the effective management of change and service redesign with a particular reference given to all aspects of service modernisation, organisational readiness for the development of new roles, responsibilities, and development solutions to support new ways of working.
  • To lead on assigned organisational development and change initiatives at site in partnership with organisational development colleagues, for change to be implemented effectively and proactively, in line with sound planning and engagement processes.
  • Provide professional OD leadership, focus, and direction for the behavioural and cultural aspects of integrated services, building strategic partnerships with other local organisations and specialist external partners in pursuit of shared strategic aims.
• Other Responsibilities
  • Engage as an effective member of the Hospital Site leadership Team and embody the Group's Outstanding Care, Together values, role modeling good leadership and inclusion through own actions and challenging behaviours that fall short of those expected.
  • To deputise for other Hospital Directors when required.
  • To participate in the Hospitals Senior Management on-call rota as required.
  • Build a strong People Services community that delivers a high-quality service to clients.
  • Contribute to business performance by being accountable for the effective review and management of People management budgets, demonstrating value for money in the way services are delivered.
  • Accountability for the effective management of pay and non-pay budgets.
  • Senior leadership responsibility for identification of and delivery of cost improvement programmes.
  • To receive and deal with any escalated complaints about relevant areas of the People Service.
  • Overseeing the effective utilisation of all site-related workforce budgets, including around establishment control, apprenticeships, and the delivery of staff-related cost improvement programmes.