Strategic Lead of Resourcing

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes (lease cars,

Cycle to Work

Vivup counselling service

Job summary

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Strategic Lead of Resourcing to oversee end-to-end recruitment, workforce planning and temporary staffing across a complex NHS organisation. You will develop and deliver a Trust-wide resourcing strategy, ensuring governance, data accuracy and inclusive candidate experiences.

The role requires substantial senior-level NHS resourcing leadership, strong communication and influencing skills, and a proactive approach to modernising

Qualifications

• Substantial senior-level experience leading resourcing, recruitment, workforce planning or temporary staffing in the NHS.
• Strong knowledge of NHS employment checks, equality legislation, immigration and sponsorship requirements, and NHS Employers guidance.
• Experience delivering organisation-wide workforce plans and service improvements in a complex multi-professional organisation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the Trust's resourcing strategy and annual recruitment plan.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and temporary staffing services across NHS staff groups.
• Report workforce risks, gaps and progress to senior leadership and governing bodies.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Influencing

Education

Relevant degree-level qualification

Prince2

CIPD

Tools

Digital recruitment systems

Job description

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Strategic Lead of Resourcing

The closing date is 25 November 2026

Strategic Lead of Resourcing - 37.5 hours - Fixed-Term 12 months

The Strategic Lead of Resourcing is a key role within People Services & Culture, providing end-to-end leadership of the Trust's resourcing agenda from workforce planning and talent attraction through recruitment, onboarding and temporary staffing. Working closely with colleagues across People & Culture and operational leaders, the post holder will develop and deliver a Trust-wide resourcing strategy, support services to understand future workforce needs and shape sustainable solutions, and modernise how recruitment activity is planned, organised and delivered. They will ensure a consistent, values-based and inclusive experience for candidates, new starters and managers, while maintaining effective governance and ensuring all national and regional workforce information returns are accurate and submitted on time.

Main duties of the job

You must have substantial senior-level experience of leading resourcing, recruitment, workforce planning or temporary staffing services in the NHS and a strong knowledge of the NHS employment, workforce and regulatory context, including NHS employment checks, equality legislation, immigration and sponsorship requirements, and relevant NHS Employers guidance.

You will be developing and delivering organisation-wide workforce plans and service improvements in a complex, multi-professional organisation and must have excellent knowledge and experience of recruitment and temporary staffing across a range of NHS staff groups, including Agenda for Change and medical and dental workforces, with the ability to obtain specialist advice where required.

You will be working with senior leaders and influencing across organisational boundaries so must have strong communication and influencing skills, as well as excellent communication skills, as you will be reporting onworkforce risks, gaps and progress to the Executive Chief People Officer, Strategic Workforce Group, People Committee and Board. .

You must have knowledge of workforce planning, workforce redesign, talent attraction, inclusive recruitment and candidate experience as you will be required to deliver the Trust's resourcing strategy and annual recruitment plan, including talent attraction, recruitment media and approaches to hard-to-recruit roles.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicy for eligible vacancies.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £20.00 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £26.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £41.00 + administration cost of £6.50 = £47.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

• 27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oRelevant degree-level qualification, professional qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience gained in a senior resourcing, recruitment or workforce role.
• Prince2
• CIPD

Knowledge

• Substantial senior-level experience of leading resourcing, recruitment, workforce planning or temporary staffing services in the NHS.
• Strong knowledge of the NHS employment, workforce and regulatory context, including NHS employment checks, equality legislation, immigration and sponsorship requirements, and relevant NHS Employers guidance.
• oExperience of developing and delivering organisation-wide workforce plans and service improvements in a complex, multi-professional organisation.
• oKnowledge and experience of recruitment and temporary staffing across a range of NHS staff groups, including Agenda for Change and medical and dental workforces, with the ability to obtain specialist advice where required.
• oExperience of leading and developing teams, managing change, working with senior leaders and influencing across organisational boundaries.
• oKnowledge of workforce planning, workforce redesign, talent attraction, inclusive recruitment and candidate experience.
• oCIPD membership or another relevant professional accreditation.
• oFormal workforce planning, project or programme management training.
• oExperience of job evaluation, digital recruitment systems or automation.

Skills

• Advanced IT and keyboard skills, with skills to manipulate data.
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Workforce planning implementation and delivery skills
• Ability to interpret and present highly complex data, tailoring the delivery (verbal and written) to the appropriate Audience
• Evidence of ability to undertakeresearch in to best practice and translate in to service improvement
• Ability to establish and develop excellent internal and external relationships
• Strong organisational skills and ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities, prioritise workload for self and team

Personal Circumstances

• Values-led, inclusive and committed to the Trust's values.
• Credible, collaborative and able to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, colleagues and partners.
• Resilient, adaptable and calm when managing competing priorities and sensitive issues.
• Strategic and improvement-focused, with sound professional judgement, integrity, discretion and accountability.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team

Other Requirements

• The postholder will be expected to work across multiple sites and will need to be able to travel independently to sites.

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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust