Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the post holder will be a key member of the People & Communications leadership team and will support the delivery of the Trust’s People Plan, supporting the vision and the delivery of the Trust’s strategy and objectives. As a senior leader in the People and Communications Team they will support the development and delivery of the Departmental objectives as well as ensuring the leadership and culture within the Department meets the expectation in our values.
The role will be responsible for ensuring delivery of key workforce programmes, including the OUH People Plan priorities and delivery plan. The postholder will develop regular reports to relevant Committees and the Board. The postholder will work closely with the senior People and Communications Team, the Divisional Heads of Workforce and colleagues from the Trust’s Corporate Governance and Improvement teams. Working with and through our Divisional Heads of Workforce and the Assistant Directors of Workforce, the postholder will provide pro-active, value adding, strategically aligned leadership to the workforce agenda in the development and delivery of people plans to support the business goals of the Trust.
The postholder will be responsible for all aspects of People & Communications Directorate governance, including risk management, Trust Board and Committee and Sub-Committee reporting, and ensuring an effective secretariat for all relevant meetings. The postholder will also ensure effective management of the Chief People Officer’s office, including management of the Executive Assistant, managing and co-ordinating complaints and queries and leading key business improvement projects.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Bick Job title: Director of Workforce Email address: laura.bick@ouh.nhs.uk
