Our mission is to be world class in innovative healthcare services, ground-breaking clinical research, and future-focused teaching, ultimately combining world-leading expertise with local care. We are now looking for a talented Chief People Officer who will share our ambition, and work inclusively across the group, providing strategic and operational leadership on all People matters and tackling longstanding recruitment and retention challenges.

Reporting to the Group CEO, the Chief People Officer will be a pivotal appointment to the senior leadership team. Working in conjunction with the Board, group executives and hospital leadership teams the successful candidate will work to strengthen our culture, from ward to the Board, ensuring our values are embedded across the organisation and motivating our staff to deliver the Trust's vision to provide world class care.

As a voting Board member and inspirational leader, the Chief People Officer will be instrumental in making a clear and visible difference to staff employed by the Royal Free London Group. Providing strategic and operational leadership on all People matters to the Group executives and board, the Chief People Officer will lead the implementation of the RFL People and Education Strategies and delivery of and NHS People Promise.

Main duties of the job

The Chief People Officer will be required to demonstrate the inclusive leadership abilities needed to develop a high-quality and high performing working environment, embedding the trust values in every aspect of the work. In conjunction with the Board, group executives and hospital leadership teams, the successful candidate will work to strengthen our culture, from ward to the Board, ensuring our staff are inspired, enabled and supported to deliver our vision to provide world class care and demonstrate the RFL Group values alongside delivering our ambitious equality, diversity & inclusion and anti-discrimination agenda.

With responsibility for workforce capacity and resilience, the Chief People Officer will seize the opportunities presented within the NHS long term workforce plan to address longstanding recruitment and retention challenges through new, dynamic and flexible career pathways and in collaboration with sector partners in North Central London and wider. They will also provide the means through which colleagues will develop, adapt to and adopt new ways of working to provide care that is more integrated, data driven, digitally optimised and research active. They will play a lead role in the North Central London ICS - role modelling and advocating for system collaboration, integration partnership, and innovation in service of improved quality and sustainability system-wide.

About us

A historic teaching hospital which has served communities in North London and its surrounds since its foundation in 1828, the Royal Free London combines world class medical expertise with local and friendly care, as it strives to tackle health inequalities in this vibrant part of the capital.

Operating across three hospital sites, the Royal Free it is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, treating approximately 1.6m patients every year. With a strong reputation for innovation, high performance and partnership-building: not only does the Trust closely collaborates across the local provider landscape as well as performing a significant role within UCL Partners, the UCL Health Alliance, and in the North Central London ICS.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack.

The pack includes job summary, person specification, application and selection process, and contact details.

The MBS Group are acting as The Royal Frees advisors on this appointment. To apply, please send a covering letter, a CV, and a completed Equality Monitoring Form to royalfreelondon@thembsgroup.co.uk by noon on Monday 16th October 2024.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Royal Free Group's values: o Positively welcoming o Actively respectful o Clearly communicating o Visibly reassuring

Experience

Essential

• Board level experience in providing HR and OD advice in an acute healthcare organisation or comparable healthcare or services setting
• Experience of developing and delivering HR and OD strategies
• Experience of leading wide-ranging cultural change programmes
• Evidence of successfully developing and supporting workforce transformation in a large, multi-disciplinary organisation

Desirable

• Experience of working in a teaching hospital environment, Foundation Trust and/or multisite environment
• Experience of working in a shared services environment
• Experience of leading a merger or integration, or equivalent, similar in size and significance
• Significant experience of personal achievement in developing HR and OD services

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Strategic thinker
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• Able to lead and motivate others, strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to cope with complex organisational issues and able to relate to a wide spectrum of NHS professionals
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of Employment Legislation, best HR practices and Workforce planning
• Able to assess priorities and make decisions, quick to grasp a point, able to think on feet, influence, persuade, give leadership and direction
• Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues, including at a national level and has ability to establish local policy drivers

Desirable

• Service improvement and redesign techniques
• Relates immediate situations to trends and pressures

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential

• Chartered Member of CIPD

Desirable

• Educated to Masters Degree or equivalent level management qualification
• Postgraduate management / leadership/ organisational development qualification e.g. MSc, MBA Chartered FCIPD

Other

Essential

• Meets the requirement for fit and proper persons

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Anne Bryans House

RFL Group Headquarters, Anne Bryans House, 77 Fleet Road

Hampstead

NW3 2QH

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