Assistant Director

**Job Title
Assistant Director - People and Culture

**Job Summary**

You will play an integral role in supporting our people to save and improve more lives.

We’ll look to you to develop a clear understanding of the workforce priorities and areas for development within the Plasma directorate. Working in close collaboration with managers, specialist teams in both the People and Plasma directorate and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Trade Union partners you will drive the workforce agenda and champion HR best practice.

A key element of this role will be to help our business units to identify and develop future talent and improve management capability and resilience through effective coaching and feedback. You will also take a lead role in driving forward improvements in engagement, wellbeing and diversity within the named directorate.

There will be a range of exciting opportunities to influence and shape future services, as we embark on an ambitious programme to establish the core systems and processes within Plasma.

**Main duties of the job**

In this role you will be a core strategic member of the People Senior Leadership Team and core strategic member of the Directorate(s) Senior Leadership Team, leading the Directorate(s) People Partner Team. Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading wider Directorate(s) people strategic discussions and decision-making ensuring robust measurement and evaluation
- Providing expert advice to Directorate(s) on people matters, issues, opportunities and strategic HR policy implementation across remit
- Leading and implementing people strategy and plans, with a particular emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion, talent, high performance and change
- Setting direction - making decisions and evaluating impact, contributing to strategy and aspirations of the Organisation.
- Improving services - critically evaluating and encouraging improvement and innovation.

**About You**

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Leadership and management experience
- Fully understand the links between the development of good HR strategies and the affect this will have on the achievement of the organisations key objectives and strategies
- Expert in multiply ‘people-related’ specialisms including Diversity and Inclusion, Resourcing, Talent, Workforce Planning and change/transformation
- Experience of extensive change management projects and manaing the complex HR implications, to achieve to required outcomes
- Experience of dealing with complex Employee Relations issues e.g. investigations, grievances, disputes etc.
- Up to date knowledge of employment law
- Experience of developing, presenting and evalutating people management skills programmes
- Experience of researching issues to develop evidence-based practice and supporting policy
- Possess contractual knowledge & experience in devising contractual arrangements

**Qualifications and Training**
- Masters’ degree in Human Resource management or related topic OR equivalent relevant experience
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development OR equivalent relevant experience

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

**About Us**

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

Three small words, one big difference - **Caring, Expert** and **Quality**.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on 4 December