Redevelopment People Lead

NHS; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 97,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a People Lead to manage the People Workstream for their hospital redevelopment programme. This role involves developing workforce strategies, managing organisational change, and ensuring workforce readiness. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree, extensive NHS experience in Human Resources, and strong leadership skills in change management and workforce planning. This permanent, part-time position offers a salary of £97,283 to £111,278 per year.

Qualifications

• Senior level experience within the NHS in Human Resources.
• Highly experienced in leading large scale organisational change.
• Strong knowledge of workforce planning and talent management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of workforce strategies.
• Manage change and ensure workforce readiness for transitions.
• Develop metrics for the people workstream.

Skills

Workforce planning

Change management principles

Talent management

Resource management

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Job summary

Reporting into the Chief People Officer for the Trust, the People Lead will be the management lead for the People Workstream as part of the Hillingdon Hospital Redevelopment Programme.

Purpose

The purpose of the People Lead is to:

• Be responsible for the delivery of the key activities required of the People workstream
• Ensure efficient skill mix and resource allocation in new hospital
• Optimise workflow efficiency, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities
• Drive effective collaboration and decision making
• Ensure alignment of the workforce strategy with other enabling strategies as part of the redevelopment programme

Main duties of the job

Key activities required of the People Workstream

• Develop the workforce strategy
• Carry out workforce modelling
• Design the future organisation (Target Operating Model, structures & roles, ways of working etc.)
• Manage change and ensure workforce readiness
• Attract, recruit and develop the project team
• Develop and deliver social value strategy

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well‑being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Details

Date posted: 22 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8d

Salary

£97,283 to £111,278 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part‑time

Reference number

394‑Corp‑7659936DT

Job locations

The Hillingdon Hospital

Hillingdon

UB8 3NN

Job description responsibilities

Job Specification

1. Strategy development, alignment and implementation

• a. Strategy development: Lead the development of workforce strategies, policies and processes to maximise opportunities through co‑design, to support the aims and implementation of the Trust's Clinical strategy.
• Lead the refresh of the Trust's People strategy, including horizon scanning for innovative approaches to workforce strategies and approaches which are innovative and fit for the future ensuring that the People strategy is aligned with system wide strategies at PLACE and ICB/ICS level.
• Utilise resources and tools available from other NHP schemes and NHSE to develop workforce strategies that are standardised at strategic level and bespoke at local level. Support the identification of skills and competencies required for a digital hospital to ensure the workforce are well equipped to operate in a new digitally enhanced facility.
• Develop a holistic Learning & Development (L&D) strategy for the scheme project team to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to contribute effectively.

b. Strategy alignment via the Target Operating Model: Input into Target Operating Model (TOM) workstream ensuring the workforce strategy: a) defines organisational structures, roles, and ways of working to ensure the future scheme functions efficiently and effectively; b) is aligned to other key redevelopment strategies to ensure that interfaces are clearly defined, aligned and that objectives can be delivered (i.e. transformation strategy is critically linked to workforce).

c. Strategy implementation: Lead the development and implementation of action plans for the recruitment/retention, Management of Change (MoC) and Organisational Development (OD) requirements for the People strategy.

2. Workforce Modelling: Lead all workforce modelling to identify workforce gaps and project future workforce needs ensuring alignment with the financial modelling at a detailed level. Identify whether/if external support is required.

3. Social Values Strategy: Develop and deliver a social value strategy to foster a positive impact on the community through workforce initiatives and local partnerships.

4. Benefits Management: Contribute to the benefits management plan, ensuring that workforce are active in capturing benefits.

5. Change Management / Operational Readiness: Lead change management efforts for workforce (e.g. implementation of 48 hour working), ensuring workforce readiness for transitions and organisational changes required for the scheme.

Contribute to the operational readiness workstream, ensuring that workforce readiness is aligned to the overall organisation readiness required for the scheme.

6. Project Management: Lead in the development of metrics for the people workstream to demonstrate that its on track to deliver the outcomes.

Lead the development and regular maintenance of a workforce workstream project plan including all tasks, deliverables and critical path.

Align workforce strategies to the overall project plan for the redevelopment people workstream, working closely with the other workstreams on the project team.

Develop a resource plan to ensure the requirements of the workforce strategy can be delivered to the timeline required and with appropriately skilled and competent people.

Lead the management and administration of the people workstream to be able achieve the objectives of the workstream.

7. Redevelopment Governance: Provide assurance through redevelopment governance that the people workstream is on track to deliver its objectives and outcomes through the delivery of monthly updates to the Redevelopment PMO using the dashboard reporting system.

Accountable for the management of risk within the workstream, including escalation of risks when they meet trigger points.

Accountable for the management of changes within the workstream, ensuring they follow the redevelopment change control process.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Essential

• Master's degree in a relevant field
• Senior level experience within the NHS in Human Resources
• Highly experienced in leading large scale organisational change
• Experience at working in a whole system approach, including ICB
• Chartered Fellow of CIPD
• Experience in leading change management efforts
• Strong knowledge of workforce planning, talent management, change management principles and best practice
• Proficiency in attracting, selecting and hiring skilled professionals
• Expertise in resource management
• Expertise in business change and implementation
• Expertise in change management including change control

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: The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address: The Hillingdon Hospital, Hillingdon, UB8 3NN

Employer's website: https://www.thh.nhs.uk/index.php