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Job summary

Main area
Human Resources
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
151-HW390
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Heatherwood Hospital
Town
Ascot
Salary
£52,963 - £59,360 per annum pro rata incl HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/07/2024 23:59

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Workforce Transformation Manager (New Hospital Programme)

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you passionate about leading major projects and driving innovation and transformation in healthcare?

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Workforce Transformation Manager to join our team. This critical role will be integral to our New Hospital Programme for Frimley Park Hospital.

Main duties of the job

As a Workforce Transformation Manager, you will support the New Hospital Programme by ensuring our workforce is effectively planned and managed, meeting the programme’s strategic needs.

You will play a pivotal role in workforce transformation, driving organisational development and providing internal HR support to the programme teams.

You will work closely with the NHP Workforce Leads and wider programme stakeholders to deliver on all aspects of workforce planning, transformation and change relating to our people for the New Hospital Programme, working proactively across the project, to support the timely delivery of all workforce aspects of the project. 

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

We are also a member of the Healthcare People Management Association (HPMA) London Academy, giving our people professionals access to a wide range of training and development opportunities and networks. If you are looking to gain more formal qualifications, we can also offer development through a wide range of apprenticeship qualifications. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Strategic Workforce Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive workforce plans that align with the New Hospital Programme’s strategic objectives.
  • Strategic HR Support: Serve as the internal HR support for the programme, addressing workforce-related challenges and providing strategic HR advice.
  • Workforce Transformation: Lead initiatives to transform the workforce, ensuring alignment with the programme’s goals and enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Organisational Development: Develop and implement organisational development and design strategies to support the evolving needs of the workforce within the programme.
  • Project Management: Manage workforce workstream activities, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with service managers, clinical leads, HR colleagues, and other key stakeholders to understand workforce requirements and drive transformation initiatives.
  • Data Analysis and Reporting: Conduct detailed workforce data analysis and provide regular reports to senior management, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
  • Innovation: Champion innovative workforce solutions and strategies to support the trust's long-term goals.
  • Staff Development: Mentor and support junior staff members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree or equivalent level of experience and academic standard in an HR, OD or transformation related subject
  • CIPD qualified/accredited or equivalent level of experience (Level 7 / MCIPD)
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Healthcare Leadership qualification
  • Strategic Workforce Planning qualification
  • PRINCE2 or equivalent project management qualification
  • Lean training/experience

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other teams to provide an effective service
  • Ability to gain credibility and establish positive relationships with staff at all levels and externally
  • Project management skills
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of clinical settings and operational practices and pressures
  • Knowledge of workforce planning issues in a complex environment

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working within an HR, function within a complex organisation
  • Experience of involvement in designing and delivering workforce transformation and organisational change programmes
  • Experience of providing specialist HR and employment law advice and interventions to address business issues
  • Experience of project management
  • Experience of capturing, analysing and documenting business requirements
  • Line management experience, including project / matrix teams
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of workforce planning processes and modelling techniques
  • Experience of working within an NHS organisation
  • Experience of working within a unionised environment
  • Budgetary management experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Michael Ellis
Job title
Associate Director of People Strategy
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07825 781332
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