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Main area
HR
Grade
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To participate on the Executive on-call rota)
Job ref
223-DPO-822
Employer
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust
Town
Shrewsbury
Salary
Dependent on experience
Closing
26/11/2025 23:59

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Deputy Chief People Officer

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

Job overview

As Deputy Chief People Officer for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, you will play a crucial role in shaping and implementing the joint people strategy, driving transformational change throughout both organisations.

Your efforts will be pivotal in addressing the workforce challenges within the NHS, whilst creating new opportunities. Prioritising the wellbeing, safety, and engagement of our staff, while ensuring patients remain at the heart of our efforts, is essential.

We are looking for an inspiring leader who is action-oriented, highly motivated, and passionate about building high-performing and engaged teams. 

This presents an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious People and OD team, where the two Boards of Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust and The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust have agreed to establish a Group between the two organisations to accelerate our exciting transformational work.

For an informal discussion about the role with the Chief People Officer, please contact Kelly Hall, Executive Assistant (email: [email protected])

Main duties of the job

  • Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the People & OD Directorate
  • Support and deputise for the Chief People Officer, ensuring the development and delivery of the Joint People Strategy through operational plans
  • Offer leadership and strategic direction to team leads, ensuring they are supported to meet their role and team objectives, while maintaining effective and supportive relationships across all areas of the People & OD Division.
  • Support innovative workforce plans that align with new ways of working and the assumptions in the workforce strategy.
  • Foster a culture where operational HR advice is based on expertise and is supportive, considerate, and value-adding.

Working for our organisation

Our vision, 'To provide excellent care for the communities we serve,' is not just a statement; it's a promise we live by every day. Guided by our core Values - Partnering, Ambitious, Caring, and Trusted - we're determined to make a real difference in the lives of those who matter most: our patients and their families.

If you're ready to be part of a team that's dedicated to continuous improvement, come join us and let's make a difference together!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

 

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to a Master's degree in Human Resources or Employment Law
  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
  • Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Formal training or qualification in management and/or leadership.

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant leadership experience ideally as a director within the people profession in a complex NHS organisation.
  • Recognised leader with influence and personal credibility.
  • Track record of developing, shaping and delivering people strategies.
  • Significant experience of leading teams across a variety of disciplines within the people profession.
  • Demonstrable experience of impacting organisational effectiveness through quantifiable performance improvement.
  • Experience of leading and delivering change.
  • Advanced detailed knowledge of employment law
  • Detailed understanding of different ways to measure the implementation and impact of initiatives.
  • Advanced practical knowledge of staff engagement, talent management and employee relations.
  • Successful track record in a sub board level role in Human Resources role in a complex unionised environment.
  • Leading a Human Resources / Workforce/People function and developing and implementing sound workforce and employee relations strategies, policies and procedures
  • Evidence of success in implementing transformational change within a large and complex organisation, including service and workforce redesign in the public or commercial sector
  • Experience of building a positive approach to managing employee relations.
  • Experience in building personal and professional credibility with the Board, management teams and staff
  • Formulating and implementing successful people and organisational development strategies
  • Managing workforce issues arising from significant structural re- organisation or service change.
  • Experience of workforce planning in an environment of comparable complexity.
  • Working across professional and organisational boundaries, and in partnership with a wide range of key stakeholders
  • Demonstrable achievement in delivery of corporate objectives and performance improvement in a devolved management structure.
  • Budgetary and financial management.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the diversity and equality agenda with an appreciation of structural or systematic inequalities and how to develop an inclusive culture.
  • Broad understanding of the current NHS policy context, financial regime and workforce and training issues and of NHS working practices.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience with working with a large medical workforce and understanding of medical contracts and terms and conditions.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kelly Hall
Job title
Executive Assistant to the Chief People Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01743 261030
Additional information

For an informal discussion about the role with the Chief People Officer, please contact Kelly Hall, Executive Assistant (email: [email protected])

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
Telephone
01743 492402
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