Senior Resourcing and Medical People and Culture Manager

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Resourcing, Rostering and Medical People and Culture Manager to enhance workforce solutions and medical HR practices. The role involves leading recruitment initiatives and strategic workforce planning to deliver quality care in the NHS. The ideal candidate has significant experience in managing teams and workforce systems, and is committed to continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• Significant operational and strategic experience in workforce systems.
• Proven ability to deliver customer-focused services and influence at senior levels.
• Specialized knowledge in recruitment, medical HR, and diversity issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams providing customer-focused services.
• Develop and deliver innovative recruitment solutions.
• Ensure HR service supports high-quality patient care.
• Use workforce information for strategic planning.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Education

Degree plus relevant training or equivalent experience to master's level

Chartered Member of CIPD (MCIPD)

Job description

Senior Resourcing and Medical People and Culture Manager

Shape the Future of Resourcing Practices at NSFT

Are you passionate about innovative workforce solutions and improving people practices across the NHS? NSFT is seeking an influential Senior Resourcing, Rostering and Medical People and Culture Manager to lead our strategic response to recruitment, retention, and medical HR challenges. This is a pivotal role, directly impacting the quality of care we deliver and the experience of our staff.

What We're Looking For

• Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent experience to master's level.
• Significant experience at an operational and strategic level in workforce systems, information, and planning.
• Proven ability to lead and manage teams, deliver customer-focused people services, and influence at senior levels.
• Highly specialised knowledge in workforce systems, recruitment, medical HR, and equality and diversity issues.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and interpersonal skills, with a proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• Commitment to continuous personal and professional development.

Main duties of the job

As our Senior Resourcing, Rostering and Medical People and Culture Manager, you will:

• Lead the Resourcing, Medical HR, and Temporary Staffing Teams, providing an effective, efficient, and customer-focused service that meets the changing needs of the NHS and NSFT.
• Develop and deliver strategic workforce plans and innovative recruitment solutions, working collaboratively across the People and Culture Directorate, Finance, and Operational colleagues.
• Ensure our Medical HR service supports safe, high-quality patient care and meets the needs of our clinical services.
• Use high-quality workforce information and analysis to inform and influence strategic and tactical business planning.
• Oversee compliance with employment governance, visa management, and regulatory requirements, ensuring robust systems and accurate reporting.
• Champion continuous improvement in service quality, developing and implementing training and capability-building programmes for recruitment, medical job planning, and rostering.
• Represent NSFT at internal and external forums, providing expert advice and acting as a role model for compassionate, person-centred leadership.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree plus additional relevant training or equivalent relevant experience to masters level or equivalent
• Chartered Member of CIPD (MCIPD)

Experience

• Post qualification or equivalent experience at an operational and strategic level with responsibilities for workforce systems, information and workforce planning.
• Experience of developing and delivering customer focused people services, working in close partnership with people and culture colleagues and wider stakeholders

Knowledge

• Workforce information reporting and business intelligence
• Recruitment & Medical HR

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.

£64,455 to £74,896 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)