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SalaryOur trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Creating a meaningful scope of works informed by existing evidence and insight that captures the enthusiasm and buy-in of partners across the London region (linking confidently with the national team and any centrally driven commitments and drawing on up to date NHS staff survey data);
- Ensuring this scope is culturally competent, observes intersectional risks, challenges and opportunities and enhances our existing commitments to the development of anti-racist practice and the achievement of anti-racist outcomes;
- Architecting the governance and oversight framework for this programme – taking the best of what exists already whilst ensuring that collective steerage and scrutiny is equal to the task in hand;
- Building the delivery infrastructure through central and disaggregated trust and individual workplace teams – creating coalitions of practitioners who will work together to develop policy products, supporting services, learning interventions and case handling methodology with a ‘once for London’ mindset that reduces variation where it is unwarranted (and undermining) drives consistently high standards and pools effort and energy for greater value;
- Ensuring legal insight and advice is brought to bear appropriately – learning from live cases within and outside the NHS and public sector;
- Driving progress – setting ambitious goals for delivery and ensuring momentum is generated and maintained and that milestones are met;
- Growing and maintaining confidence and belief amongst healthcare workers, colleagues and communities, that this programme will address the areas of change needed; and
- Ensuring all good practice is shared widely for the benefit of the whole NHS; and that all participating employers are able to sign up to the NHS sexual safety charter, with a confident delivery plan to achieve the standards set.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree Level Education or equivalent experience
- Post-graduate Diploma or MSC or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Experience of QI methodology
Desirable criteria
- Chartered Member of the CIPD.
- Project Management qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities
- Experience of programme management.
- Extensive experience working as a Senior HR Professional or Senior manager with people management and leadership experience
- Extensive experience specifically in Staff Experience, equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Experience of managing budgets and delivering savings.
- Experience of managing cross -functional and group level projects and integration of services at a senior level.
- Proven experience of working at Senior/Executive level required and providing expert advice to Board level committees
- Experience of successful management of complex employee relation cases
- Experience of leading/setting organisational policy based on interpretation of national guidance or legislation
- Significant experience of developing, executing and tracking the success of HR functions and projects.
- In-depth knowledge of employment legislation, HR policies and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of managing contentious people issues effectively together with a high level of emotional intelligence and strong interpersonal and communication skills
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.- AT* - Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
- By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we require you to complete your stat and Man e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
- If you are an EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
- The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
- The Trust will request a DBS (CRB) if post involves regulated activities. The Trust is compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service Codes of practice and the Rehabilitation of offenders act.
- By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
- Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Please note:
- Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
Please be advised that due to exceptionally high demand, all Royal Free accommodation is at full capacity and waiting lists are being held. Average waiting times are 12 months. Please do not rely on Trust accommodation when you commence your role and ensure you investigate alternative accommodation for your arrival.
