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Location

Salford, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

In anticipation of the retirement of our Chief People Officer, we have a unique opportunity for an outstanding leader to shape our People Strategy and contribute to the ambitious goals outlined in Vision 10. As a voting Board Member, your role will be pivotal in building a culture that is patient and person-centred, empowers colleagues, and promotes care, inspiration, appreciation, as well as personal accountability. Your responsibilities include ensuring the delivery of high-quality services throughout the Trust, contributing to the development and implementation of our People Strategy, and aligning these efforts with the overall vision of the organisation, ensuring colleagues have a great experience and feel supported and valued throughout their careers with the NCA. You will spearhead the development of a culture that promotes inclusivity, equality of opportunity, and social value within our communities. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving the modernisation of our people function, seizing opportunities created by digitisation and our influential role in Greater Manchester. Acting as the expert counsel on employment law matters, you will foster effective partnership working at all levels with colleague representative bodies.

As Chief People Officer, you will serve as a key member of our Executive Team, leading the People Directorate to deliver our People Strategy and contribute to the people ambitions outlined in Vision 10. Your forward-thinking and innovative approach will be crucial in building a culture that is patient and person-centred, empowers colleagues, and promotes care, inspiration, appreciation, and personal accountability, bringing a passion for excellent patient care and a focus on equity and inclusion, both for our colleagues and our communities.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers websitecareers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

We are seeking an exceptional leader with significant director level experience from a complex public sector or large multi-site private sector organisation. With a proven track record as an HR Director, the successful candidate will have demonstrated achievements in organisational effectiveness, culture change, and people strategies. Possessing exceptional leadership skills and a strategic mindset, you will be committed to driving organisational development and showcase the knowledge, passion and energy to guide our Trust through the next phase in our development.

If you can demonstrate the integrity, outstanding communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders with a commercial, strategic and adaptable approach, thenplease contact Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher or Thomas Patterson, Managing Director at Alumni Globalwho are supporting the Trust on this appointment process, details of which can be found on the microsite below:-

This advert closes on Thursday 21 Mar 2024

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