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Job summary

The NHS Business Services Authority is seeking a Director of People to lead and shape its people services. This role involves managing a diverse team, developing HR strategies, and influencing organizational change while ensuring a collaborative and inclusive culture. With a committed focus on the well-being and engagement of colleagues, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future workforce of the NHS.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, increasing with service
Excellent pension with 23.7% employer contribution
Flexible working conditions
Access to well-being and inclusion networks
High-street discounts

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in senior leadership and managing a large People function.
  • Significant knowledge of UK Employment Law.
  • Ability to influence and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver People Strategy and manage a high-performing team.
  • Lead change initiatives and ensure effective service delivery.
  • Cultivate an inclusive workplace culture and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Leadership
Strategic Planning
Change Management
HR Policies
Stakeholder Management

Education

Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
FCIPD

Job description

    Req#: G9914-25-0137?language=en&page=263&sort=publicationDateDesc
    Job summary

    Join the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in a new and exciting people centred leadership role as our Director of People. You will be instrumental in leading and shaping our full spectrum of people services including Corporate HR, Organisational Design and Development, and Colleague Experience and Social Impact teams.

    Working with the Chief People Officer, you'll develop and deliver the overarching People Strategy, policies and processes whilst supporting our organisations strategic people direction and mitigating and managing any potential workforce risk.

    We're looking for a proven senior people leader, who is passionate about driving a high performing, collaborative inclusive and open culture to support engaging and empowering our colleagues at all levels through our people team offer.

    We're committed to being a flexible employer and are currently hybrid working. The office base for this role is Newcastle upon Tyne and we ask for flexibility to attend the office for in-person collaboration when needed.

    Interviews will take place in Newcastle on 23rd July.

    What do we offer?

    • 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years' service and 33 days after ten years' service + public holidays
    • Excellent pension, 23.7% employer contribution
    • Flexible working
    • Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
    • NHS Car Lease Scheme
    • Access to a wide range of benefits and high-street discounts
    Main duties of the job

    As a senior leader and member of NHSBSA Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief People Officer, you will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a leading-edge people agenda.

    • Collaboratively lead and develop a strategic framework for the People Team, with robust plans to deliver against the strategic objectives of the overall organisation.
    • Ensure the day-to-day provision of an effective overall People function, delivering service excellence aligned to our strategic objectives, and the continuous development of forward thinking, and legally compliant function.
    • Effective and supportive leadership of Heads of Service of a variety of people focused teams, ensuring service excellence and efficiency is embedded in all areas.
    • Provide expert advice across the organisation on complex workforce matters and provision of strategic solutions to related business challenges, including organisational change, new ways of working and transformation.
    • Responsible for bringing together, connecting and aligning all organisational wide HR, OD&D and CESI programmes into one coherent strategic framework, enabling our workforce to thrive now and in the face of future demands.Develop and retain top talent, ensuring succession planning strengthens future leadership pipelines and navigate complexity with confidence, ensuring teams are agile, motivated and outcome-focused.

    See attached job description for full responsibilities.

    About us

    Here at the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), what we do matters.

    We manage the NHS Pension scheme, process prescription payments and much more. Our services are used by NHS organisations, contractors and the public: we're proud to be part of something meaningful, that touches millions of lives.

    We design our services around customer needs and place people at the heart of our organisation. That's why when you join us, you'll be empowered and supported to help your career grow.

    As one of the UK's Best Big Companies to work for, we're connected to our values: Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We care about our people, our purpose, and your progress.

    We strive to offer a fantastic colleague experience, where every colleague is heard, supported and respected. Wellbeing, diversity and inclusion is at the centre of this, and you can join our Lived Experience Networks who help us bring our authentic selves to work.

    We're committed to being a flexible employer and we try to offer a working pattern that suits you where possible, through hybrid working, flexible hours and more.

    Alongside a competitive salary with pay progression, we offer a people-centric benefits package, connecting you to the rewards and benefits you value most!

    Ready to join us in delivering business service excellence to the NHS, helping people live longer, healthier lives? Apply today and see where the NHSBSA can take you.

    We are people connected to care.

    Details
    Date posted

    04 June 2025

    Pay scheme

    Agenda for change

    Band

    Band 9

    Salary

    £105,385 to £121,271 a year

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Full-time, Flexible working

    Reference number

    914-BSA7251990

    Job locations

    Stella House

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    NE15 8NY


    Job description
    Job responsibilities

    The post holder will be an important member of the NHSBSAs Leadership Team. As part of this team, you will help lead the organisation into the future, managing day to day challenges and supporting the NHSBSA to realise its strategic ambitions.

    You will champion and drive closer working and greater integration between Directorates to collectively ensure we fulfil our purpose and vision. This will include cultivating relationships with a wide network of colleagues external to NHSBSA. You will therefore provide a central leadership role to the future development and transformation of the NHSBSA services, workforce and organisational culture.

    This role is a key decision maker and will have overall responsibility for the effective service delivery of the People function, influencing at the highest level and able to cope with competing demands. In conjunction with the Chief People Officer, youll develop and the deliver the overarching People Strategy, supporting the overall organisations strategic direction, whilst mitigating and managing any workforce risk. As an expert in holistic people best practice, this role will also provide significant support to the Executive Director team, deputising where appropriate, leading a senior management team and working with key external stakeholders across the system.

    Job summary:1. As a Senior Leader and a member of our Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief People Officer, you will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a leading-edge people agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break even budgets. Alongside this you will lead and embed significant workforce transformation and look to continuously improve colleague experience and business performance. Leading a diverse workforce, you will lead, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines through a high performing, inclusive and collaborative culture, in addition to building and maintaining effective trusted relationships with key stakeholders. You will be responsible for leading and managing the development and implementation of the right People strategies, policies and processes to enable the NHSBSA to deliver its ambitious agenda.

    2. With a forward thinking, commercially minded and collaborative approach, you will be instrumental in leading, shaping and overseeing the Corporate HR, Organisational Design and Development and Colleague Experience teams that form the People function. You will horizon scan, collaboratively setting the strategic direction of the People teams across the NHSBSA, using the People strategies as a key enabler for change. Youll be required to act autonomously, making significant decisions that impact the organisation to ensure excellence is achieved and maintained.

    3. Collaboratively lead and develop a strategic framework for the People Team, with robust plans to deliver against the strategic objectives of the overall organisation. Ensure People team priorities are aligned to overall strategy and reviewed regularly, with accountability for success driven within all teams. Develop feedback mechanisms to support the improvement of service delivery.4. Ensure the day-to-day provision of an effective overall People function, delivering service excellence aligned to our strategic objectives, and the continuous development of forward thinking, and legally compliant function. Ensure effective people practices, ensuring expert advice and support, on a wide range of complex workforce issues can be always provided. Provision of expertise level knowledge in employment related legislation and Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions.

    5. Effective and supportive leadership of Heads of Service of a variety of people focused teams, ensuring service excellence and efficiency is embedded in all areas. Work to streamline processes and digitise where possible.

    Strategic Leadership

    6. This role will ensure strategic alignment of service delivery, workforce planning and operational excellence and ensure a culture of financial discipline, value for money and optimising resourcing is embedded. Youll champion efficiency, continuous improvement and customer centric innovation to enhance service impact and over see governance, risk, and compliance with a strategic and ethical lens, balancing ambition with responsibility.

    7. Responsible for bringing together, connecting and aligning all organisational wide HR, OD&D and CESI programmes into one coherent strategic framework, enabling our workforce to thrive now and in the face of future demands.

    8. Ensuring appropriate people policies are in place that support our colleagues and organisational aims, are accessible, embedded, continuously improved and legally compliant.

    9. Provide expert advice across the organisation on complex workforce matters and provision of strategic solutions to related business challenges, including organisational change, new ways of working and transformation. Ensure our wider teams are appropriately resourced to deliver SME expertise.

    10. Ensure our organisation develops and embraces Strategic Workforce Planning, ensuring we are fit for the future and agile to change. Ensure the provision of strategic advice on workforce impacts, workforce business planning and scenario planning for future business opportunities and challenges. Provision of strategies to help address organisations workforce risk.

    11. Be an expert practitioner of change, ensuring best practice, and effective change management practices and skills are embedded across the organisation and led by SMEs, ensuring colleague wellbeing runs throughout any programme of change. Ensure we are ready and able to support large scale change/TUPE where required.

    12. Ensure the organisation has a robust and strategic approach to talent acquisition, development, reward and recognition, ensuring effective resource planning, embedded EVP and an organisational view of vacancy levels, with appropriate, transparent and wide ranging strategies to attract, develop and retain the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles. Support the development of a creative and best in class approach to reward and recognition, within the boundaries of Agenda for Change.

    13. Ensure that an agile, innovative and evidence based approach is taken in all aspects of learning, talent, leadership and organisational development and design which facilitates the cultural and wider transformation of the organisation as well as continuing to meet the existing needs of our customers and stakeholders and includes strategic leadership development strategies and interventions that mitigate retention and succession risk.

    14. Ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion, social impact and wellbeing are key drivers running across all workforce strategies and work streams, ensuring strong levels of organisational wide engagement and a continued focus on this agenda at all levels.

    Operational Leadership

    15. Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive culture that empowers and engages colleagues, lead with authenticity, embedding the NHSBSAs values in decision making, behaviours and leadership practices. Develop and retain top talent, ensuring succession planning strengthens future leadership pipelines and navigate complexity with confidence, ensuring teams are agile, motivated and outcome focused.

    Decision Making and Continuous Improvement

    16. Continuously develop and drive service insight and other complex data to evaluate current operating model and service provision, to determine changes needed within the service area whilst inspiring horizon scan across the People function and wider organisation. Leading on major strategic projects, in conjunction with other Directors and Executive Leadership Team, acting as SRO for programmes and projects undertaken where appropriate.

    17. Budgetary responsibility for the People Team. Overall responsibility for the effective management and monitoring of budgets. This will include prioritisation of resources and ensuring all benefits are captured and delivered. Allocating funds for high-priority, high-impact activity by seeking out the most cost-effective way to deliver services, ensuring corrective action is taken where necessary including working closely with other stakeholders.

    Transformation, Innovation and Stakeholder Influence18. Lead large scale change, and transformation with vision, adaptability and strategic foresight. You will foster a culture of curiosity, challenge and continuous improvement to drive sustainable innovation, building and leveraging influential relationships, managing complex stakeholder landscapes with political acumen. This role will align internal and external partners to advance NHDBSA mission, securing commitment to shared goals.

    19. Building and leading effective partnerships with our recognised Trade Unions, and colleague representative groups, chairing our Working in Partnership Committee and other relevant boards/committees.

    Leadership level responsibilities and accountabilities20. Be a champion for equality and diversity for the organisation, actively working to create and maintain an environment that is diverse and inclusive of all.

    Please review attached job description for full responsibilities.

    Job description
    Job responsibilities

    The post holder will be an important member of the NHSBSAs Leadership Team. As part of this team, you will help lead the organisation into the future, managing day to day challenges and supporting the NHSBSA to realise its strategic ambitions.

    You will champion and drive closer working and greater integration between Directorates to collectively ensure we fulfil our purpose and vision. This will include cultivating relationships with a wide network of colleagues external to NHSBSA. You will therefore provide a central leadership role to the future development and transformation of the NHSBSA services, workforce and organisational culture.

    This role is a key decision maker and will have overall responsibility for the effective service delivery of the People function, influencing at the highest level and able to cope with competing demands. In conjunction with the Chief People Officer, youll develop and the deliver the overarching People Strategy, supporting the overall organisations strategic direction, whilst mitigating and managing any workforce risk. As an expert in holistic people best practice, this role will also provide significant support to the Executive Director team, deputising where appropriate, leading a senior management team and working with key external stakeholders across the system.

    Job summary:1. As a Senior Leader and a member of our Leadership Team, reporting into the Chief People Officer, you will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a leading-edge people agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break even budgets. Alongside this you will lead and embed significant workforce transformation and look to continuously improve colleague experience and business performance. Leading a diverse workforce, you will lead, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines through a high performing, inclusive and collaborative culture, in addition to building and maintaining effective trusted relationships with key stakeholders. You will be responsible for leading and managing the development and implementation of the right People strategies, policies and processes to enable the NHSBSA to deliver its ambitious agenda.

    2. With a forward thinking, commercially minded and collaborative approach, you will be instrumental in leading, shaping and overseeing the Corporate HR, Organisational Design and Development and Colleague Experience teams that form the People function. You will horizon scan, collaboratively setting the strategic direction of the People teams across the NHSBSA, using the People strategies as a key enabler for change. Youll be required to act autonomously, making significant decisions that impact the organisation to ensure excellence is achieved and maintained.

    3. Collaboratively lead and develop a strategic framework for the People Team, with robust plans to deliver against the strategic objectives of the overall organisation. Ensure People team priorities are aligned to overall strategy and reviewed regularly, with accountability for success driven within all teams. Develop feedback mechanisms to support the improvement of service delivery.4. Ensure the day-to-day provision of an effective overall People function, delivering service excellence aligned to our strategic objectives, and the continuous development of forward thinking, and legally compliant function. Ensure effective people practices, ensuring expert advice and support, on a wide range of complex workforce issues can be always provided. Provision of expertise level knowledge in employment related legislation and Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions.

    5. Effective and supportive leadership of Heads of Service of a variety of people focused teams, ensuring service excellence and efficiency is embedded in all areas. Work to streamline processes and digitise where possible.

    Strategic Leadership

    6. This role will ensure strategic alignment of service delivery, workforce planning and operational excellence and ensure a culture of financial discipline, value for money and optimising resourcing is embedded. Youll champion efficiency, continuous improvement and customer centric innovation to enhance service impact and over see governance, risk, and compliance with a strategic and ethical lens, balancing ambition with responsibility.

    7. Responsible for bringing together, connecting and aligning all organisational wide HR, OD&D and CESI programmes into one coherent strategic framework, enabling our workforce to thrive now and in the face of future demands.

    8. Ensuring appropriate people policies are in place that support our colleagues and organisational aims, are accessible, embedded, continuously improved and legally compliant.

    9. Provide expert advice across the organisation on complex workforce matters and provision of strategic solutions to related business challenges, including organisational change, new ways of working and transformation. Ensure our wider teams are appropriately resourced to deliver SME expertise.

    10. Ensure our organisation develops and embraces Strategic Workforce Planning, ensuring we are fit for the future and agile to change. Ensure the provision of strategic advice on workforce impacts, workforce business planning and scenario planning for future business opportunities and challenges. Provision of strategies to help address organisations workforce risk.

    11. Be an expert practitioner of change, ensuring best practice, and effective change management practices and skills are embedded across the organisation and led by SMEs, ensuring colleague wellbeing runs throughout any programme of change. Ensure we are ready and able to support large scale change/TUPE where required.

    12. Ensure the organisation has a robust and strategic approach to talent acquisition, development, reward and recognition, ensuring effective resource planning, embedded EVP and an organisational view of vacancy levels, with appropriate, transparent and wide ranging strategies to attract, develop and retain the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles. Support the development of a creative and best in class approach to reward and recognition, within the boundaries of Agenda for Change.

    13. Ensure that an agile, innovative and evidence based approach is taken in all aspects of learning, talent, leadership and organisational development and design which facilitates the cultural and wider transformation of the organisation as well as continuing to meet the existing needs of our customers and stakeholders and includes strategic leadership development strategies and interventions that mitigate retention and succession risk.

    14. Ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion, social impact and wellbeing are key drivers running across all workforce strategies and work streams, ensuring strong levels of organisational wide engagement and a continued focus on this agenda at all levels.

    Operational Leadership

    15. Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive culture that empowers and engages colleagues, lead with authenticity, embedding the NHSBSAs values in decision making, behaviours and leadership practices. Develop and retain top talent, ensuring succession planning strengthens future leadership pipelines and navigate complexity with confidence, ensuring teams are agile, motivated and outcome focused.

    Decision Making and Continuous Improvement

    16. Continuously develop and drive service insight and other complex data to evaluate current operating model and service provision, to determine changes needed within the service area whilst inspiring horizon scan across the People function and wider organisation. Leading on major strategic projects, in conjunction with other Directors and Executive Leadership Team, acting as SRO for programmes and projects undertaken where appropriate.

    17. Budgetary responsibility for the People Team. Overall responsibility for the effective management and monitoring of budgets. This will include prioritisation of resources and ensuring all benefits are captured and delivered. Allocating funds for high-priority, high-impact activity by seeking out the most cost-effective way to deliver services, ensuring corrective action is taken where necessary including working closely with other stakeholders.

    Transformation, Innovation and Stakeholder Influence18. Lead large scale change, and transformation with vision, adaptability and strategic foresight. You will foster a culture of curiosity, challenge and continuous improvement to drive sustainable innovation, building and leveraging influential relationships, managing complex stakeholder landscapes with political acumen. This role will align internal and external partners to advance NHDBSA mission, securing commitment to shared goals.

    19. Building and leading effective partnerships with our recognised Trade Unions, and colleague representative groups, chairing our Working in Partnership Committee and other relevant boards/committees.

    Leadership level responsibilities and accountabilities20. Be a champion for equality and diversity for the organisation, actively working to create and maintain an environment that is diverse and inclusive of all.

    Please review attached job description for full responsibilities.

    Person Specification
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Desirable
    • Project/change management experience/ In depth knowledge & experience of managing projects and project teams
    • Experience of working within a highly regulated sector
    • Coaching and mentoring at leadership level
    • Knowledge and understanding of the social, political, environmental and financial context of the NHSBSA, its clients, customers and suppliers
    Experience
    Essential
    • Extensive experience of staff and budget management across a complex people team, and organisationally wide
    • Management of systems in a service delivery environment
    • Experience of working with/across other NHS organisations for benchmarking purpose to identify best practice/areas for improvement
    • Experience of developing and delivering business improvement plans, business planning and key performance indicators
    Desirable
    • An awareness of the NHSBSA's strategy, business plans and major programmes of work
    Qualifications
    Essential
    • Significant and extensive in-depth relevant senior leadership experience in leading a large People function
    Desirable
    • Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent levels of qualifications and/or experience of working at senior leadership level
    • FCIPD
    • Employment Law related qualifications
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Essential
    • Ability to work at a senior strategic level to lead and deliver performance excellence, grow existing services and develop new services to meet both business and customer needs
    • Proven contribution to high level decision making and policy development at organisational level and within a People SME.
    • Extensive specialist knowledge of developing and implementing HR policies and procedures and associated Employment Law and complex cases.
    • Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of interpreting and evaluating complex, multi-faceted information, leading the delivery of associated project plans, and using insight to shape strategic decisions and drive impactful outcomes.
    • Ability to think strategically and respond quickly to complex changing circumstances and high pressure situations, maintaining a clear view of overall operational priorities
    Experience
    Essential
    • Significant experience working at a senior level in a large, complex organisation and an emotive environment including input to development of People strategy and intelligent use of workforce information to inform strategic and operational decisions.
    • Significant experience of contributing to organisational strategy and translating that into service deliverables.
    • Significant experience in managing change and being a catalyst and leader in a changing environment, harnessing others to embrace transformation.
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Essential
    • Uses enterprise-wide thinking to break down silos, fostering collaboration and accountability at all levels.
    • Strong leadership skills, including an ability to motivate and inspire teams to be successful and become high performing
    • A high degree of political astuteness
    • Building and maintaining constructive working relationships with appropriate stakeholders/contacts
    • In-depth knowledge of current UK Employment law and legislation
    • Ability to influence, persuade and motivate others
    • Ability to manage varied and complex relationships to facilitate change and improvement
    • Commitment to act as a role model empowering transparency, inclusivity, honesty and objectivity
    • Proven ability to lead and embed a culture of innovation and creativity through collaborative working, developing and delivering effective solutions to complex challenges that drive continuous improvement and add value.
    • Strategic Vision and Execution: Proven ability to build organisational capabilities, establish a clear strategic vision, and translate it into successful outcomes.
    Experience
    Essential
    • Significant experience in managing a highly complex budget.
    • Extensive experience of building effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to maintain strategic relationships and provision of mutually acceptable solutions to business issues.
    • Experience of performing at high level over a sustained period of time, in a large organisation which has a complex operating environment, where there is uncertainty and continual change
    • Significant experience of motivating, enabling and empowering teams to deliver
    • Experience of creating, inspiring and driving cultural change within an organisation and across a sector
    • First class experience of modelling exemplary leadership skills and behaviours, communicating an organisational purpose and leading highly engaged teams
    • Extensive experience of developing a customer focused, quality driven culture.
    • Extensive prior relevant and demonstrable experience working at a senior leadership level in a people related specialism.
    Desirable
    • Policy development and implementation.
    • Stakeholder/relationship management
    Person Specification
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Desirable
    • Project/change management experience/ In depth knowledge & experience of managing projects and project teams
    • Experience of working within a highly regulated sector
    • Coaching and mentoring at leadership level
    • Knowledge and understanding of the social, political, environmental and financial context of the NHSBSA, its clients, customers and suppliers
    Experience
    Essential
    • Extensive experience of staff and budget management across a complex people team, and organisationally wide
    • Management of systems in a service delivery environment
    • Experience of working with/across other NHS organisations for benchmarking purpose to identify best practice/areas for improvement
    • Experience of developing and delivering business improvement plans, business planning and key performance indicators
    Desirable
    • An awareness of the NHSBSA's strategy, business plans and major programmes of work
    Qualifications
    Essential
    • Significant and extensive in-depth relevant senior leadership experience in leading a large People function
    Desirable
    • Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent levels of qualifications and/or experience of working at senior leadership level
    • FCIPD
    • Employment Law related qualifications
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Essential
    • Ability to work at a senior strategic level to lead and deliver performance excellence, grow existing services and develop new services to meet both business and customer needs
    • Proven contribution to high level decision making and policy development at organisational level and within a People SME.
    • Extensive specialist knowledge of developing and implementing HR policies and procedures and associated Employment Law and complex cases.
    • Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of interpreting and evaluating complex, multi-faceted information, leading the delivery of associated project plans, and using insight to shape strategic decisions and drive impactful outcomes.
    • Ability to think strategically and respond quickly to complex changing circumstances and high pressure situations, maintaining a clear view of overall operational priorities
    Experience
    Essential
    • Significant experience working at a senior level in a large, complex organisation and an emotive environment including input to development of People strategy and intelligent use of workforce information to inform strategic and operational decisions.
    • Significant experience of contributing to organisational strategy and translating that into service deliverables.
    • Significant experience in managing change and being a catalyst and leader in a changing environment, harnessing others to embrace transformation.
    Personal qualities, knowledge & skills
    Essential
    • Uses enterprise-wide thinking to break down silos, fostering collaboration and accountability at all levels.
    • Strong leadership skills, including an ability to motivate and inspire teams to be successful and become high performing
    • A high degree of political astuteness
    • Building and maintaining constructive working relationships with appropriate stakeholders/contacts
    • In-depth knowledge of current UK Employment law and legislation
    • Ability to influence, persuade and motivate others
    • Ability to manage varied and complex relationships to facilitate change and improvement
    • Commitment to act as a role model empowering transparency, inclusivity, honesty and objectivity
    • Proven ability to lead and embed a culture of innovation and creativity through collaborative working, developing and delivering effective solutions to complex challenges that drive continuous improvement and add value.
    • Strategic Vision and Execution: Proven ability to build organisational capabilities, establish a clear strategic vision, and translate it into successful outcomes.
    Experience
    Essential
    • Significant experience in managing a highly complex budget.
    • Extensive experience of building effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to maintain strategic relationships and provision of mutually acceptable solutions to business issues.
    • Experience of performing at high level over a sustained period of time, in a large organisation which has a complex operating environment, where there is uncertainty and continual change
    • Significant experience of motivating, enabling and empowering teams to deliver
    • Experience of creating, inspiring and driving cultural change within an organisation and across a sector
    • First class experience of modelling exemplary leadership skills and behaviours, communicating an organisational purpose and leading highly engaged teams
    • Extensive experience of developing a customer focused, quality driven culture.
    • Extensive prior relevant and demonstrable experience working at a senior leadership level in a people related specialism.
    Desirable
    • Policy development and implementation.
    • Stakeholder/relationship management
    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.

    Employer details
    Employer name

    NHS Business Services Authority

    Address

    Stella House

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    NE15 8NY


    Employer's website

    https://careers.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

    Employer details
    Employer name

    NHS Business Services Authority

    Address

    Stella House

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    NE15 8NY


    Employer's website

    https://careers.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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