Associate Director of People GHH

NHS; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier healthcare institution in Sutton Coldfield is seeking an Associate Director of People to lead workforce strategies and improve staff experiences. This role involves collaboration with hospital leaders, driving inclusion, and overseeing complex employee relations cases. The ideal candidate has substantial HR experience, a post-graduate qualification, and a track record in organizational change.

Qualifications

• Educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
• Desirable to have a mediation qualification.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Group-wide People strategies.
• Lead hospital workforce plans development and implementation.
• Promote and support staff well being within the Hospital.

Skills

Leadership

Employee relations

Workforce planning

Change management

Diversity & Inclusion

Education

Post-graduate degree or equivalent experience

Job description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Director of People GHH

The closing date is 02 October 2025

I am looking for a motivated and inspiring leader to take on the role of Associate Director of people for Good Hope Hospital. This is a great opportunity to help shape our people strategy, support our leaders and ensure staff have the best possible experience at work. You'll play a key role driving inclusion, engagement, workforce development as well as overseeing and investigating complex employee relations cases where lessons need to be learnt.

Interested? For an informal conversation please contact my PA, Tara O\'Donnell (Tara.O\[e-mail]) who will be happy to help arrange a suitable time.

Main duties of the job

Contribute to Group-wide People strategies and represent the Hospital Site at relevant forums.

Lead on the development and implementation of Hospital workforce plans.

Effectively tailor and deploy the agreed Group strategies to support the Hospital and Group to become a great place to work.

Enable People, Quality and Inclusion strategies, with an emphasis on staff and patient-led improvements for high engagement and sustainability.

Working in close collaboration with Occupational Health and well being, promote and support staff well being within the Hospital.

Work closely with other Hospital Associate Directors of People and Hospital leaders to introduce new, flexible roles and ways of working, putting workforce redesign at the heart of service transformation.

Lead the effective development of leadership and people management capability across the Hospital, 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.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of Trust policy and ensure excellent implementation.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to post-graduate degree level or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
• Desirable to have a mediation qualification.

Experience

• Experience in a senior HR and OD position.
• Proven track record of achievement in a complex, people-facing organisation.
• Significant employee relations experience including undertaking highly complex and contentious investigations.
• Experience in leading diverse services and programmes across different functions, and leading and facilitating stakeholders through major change.
• Experience of building workforce plans and new workforce models that are underpinned by robust quantitative workforce analysis.
• Proven ability to evaluate and optimise business cases and to construct effective business models for service delivery.
• Strong track record in promoting and delivering organisational change.
• A thorough understanding of modern HR and OD theory and practice.
• Excellent working knowledge of current employment law, including experience in employment tribunals.
• Strong grasp for diversity & inclusion issues, including legislative requirements.
• Proven track record in whistleblowing practice and responding to concerns raised within the legislative and speaking up frameworks
• Experience of managing industrial relations in a multi-union environment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust