Assistant Director of Workforce

**Job Title**: Assistant Director of Workforce

**Trust Location**:Unipart House, Garsington Road, Cowley, OX4 2PG

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

**About the Trust**

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. They became a Foundation Trust on 1 October 2015 and believe that this will enable them to work more effectively in partnership with their patients and their local community to provide high quality healthcare.

They provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services (including cardiac, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation) medical education, training, and research.

**What you’ll be responsible for**:

- Responsible for the development of Trust-wide recruitment strategies in collaboration with the Chief People Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer to ensure the Trust has sustainable plans that support the immediate operational/business plans and longer term clinical and strategic objectives.
- Provide senior advice on people and recruitment issues, including sensitive issues, to the Chief People Officer and other Executive Directors and Board members, and to the Director of Workforce.
- Ensures the provision of high quality and timely Business Partnering services to the executives, maintaining Trust-wide professional standards ensuring consistency and facilitating the sharing of good practice.
- Lead on Board-level recruitment, working closely with the Trust’s external recruiters, ensuring that all processes followed adhere to the Trust’s standards and supporting streamlined and top quality on-boarding for all appointments.
- Develop and implement Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for both non-medical and medical recruitment, engaging with Divisional and Corporate managers and leaders to ensure support.

**You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust**:
1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS

2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times

3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

**You’ll have the following skills/experience**:

- Previous experience within NHS
- Relevant Masters Qualification or able to demonstrate equivalence in relevant experience and knowledge.
- Evidence of continued professional development
- MCIPD or equivalent
- Significant experience in a HR role at a senior level in a complex environment.
- Significant experience of providing HR and Resourcing advice at a senior level
- Experience of influencing decisions up to and including Board level
- Experience of promoting partnership and collaborative working with members of different professions and organisations
- Excellent knowledge of UK employment legislation
- The ability to create, deliver and sustain a vision for service improvement
- Ability to understand and manage large budgets
- Highly developed leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and team
- Committed to promoting and maintaining openness, inclusiveness and the highest of professional standards

**As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits**:

- Competitive pay rates
- work this week, get paid next week
- **Essential support when you need it
- 24/7 365 days**:

- call us anytime
- **Multi locational**:

- work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go**:

- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle**:

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- Keep up with the essentials and more
- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

- your work life balance is important to us
- **Stakeholder pension scheme available**:

- a flexible future for you and yours

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop p