Business Process and Improvement Specialist

NHS Blood and Transplant; Greater London, Manchester, Southampton, Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking a Business Process and Improvement Specialist to lead HR change initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in HR Management, significant senior HR experience, and strong leadership skills. Responsibilities include leading a team of experts to enhance HR processes and improve employee experience. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact within the organization in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior HR role with large organizational change projects.
• Highly developed leadership skills to motivate a team.
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment law.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of HR professionals to implement change.
• Challenge the status quo to improve People Services.
• Collaborate with operational managers to deliver key KPIs.

Skills

Leadership skills

Knowledge of employment law

Relationship building

LEAN methodologies

Education

Masters degree in HR Management or related subject

LEAN Management qualification

Job description

Business Process and Improvement Specialist

A fantastic opportunity to lead a team at the heart of significant change in HR systems and processes at NHSBT. If youre passionate about HR systems, workforce processes and data and can lead a small team, this short-term assignment could be for you. Were looking to modernise, deliver efficiencies & improve the employee experience at NHSBT and your skills might be just what we need to ensure success.

Main duties of the job

This is an important senior HR professional who works autonomously providing expert HR knowledge, technical expertise and resource to support the implementation of change based projects across the People directorate, undertaking reviews of workforce processes with a view to making them outcome and customer focused.By its nature this role is that of a strategic change agent combined with a people manager where the post holder has to:Work as part of a small team of HR professionals and system experts working as Service Improvement change agents with an aim of improving Business process, implementing LEAN and other appropriate approaches across the suite of services HR delivers across NHSBT;Be expected to lead on a wide range of change projects and to challenge the status quo in order to ensure that improvement of the People Services is at the forefront of the outcomeWork with the People Directorate staff and operational managers across NHSBT to ensure that the Directorates service maximises the efficiencies that improvement projects are designed to deliver.provides leadership and line management for a team of four systems experts and will work closely with the Workforce Planning and Insights Specialist.Liaise, work with and in collaboration (but not exclusively) with Assistant Directors, Heads of function across the whole of the People directorate and operational managers and their staff to deliver the key KPIs of the Insights and Improvement team

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree in HR Management or related subject or equivalent experience
• LEAN Management qualification or other process improvement qualification

Experience

• Significant experience in a senior HR role, that is regional or national or leading on large and complex organisational change projects.
• Highly developed leadership skills that can motivate and lead a team to achieve required goals
• Up to date knowledge of employment law
• Ability to develop excellent relationships with workforce colleagues and to facilitate the effectiveness of the function..
• Experience of applying LEAN or other service improvement methodologies

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.