Head of Medical HR

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Join Our Team as Head of Medical HR!

Are you passionate about shaping the future of medical HR? We are seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to join our team as the Head of Medical HR. In this pivotal role, you will provide professional leadership and guidance to our medical workforce agenda, including medical HR, recruitment, and retention. You will be at the forefront of developing and delivering a long-term medical workforce strategy to meet the current and future needs of our organization, ensuring a sustainable workforce.

Why Join Us?

• We offer a flexible working approach with a hybrid model of working.
• Be part of an ambitious programme focused on equality, diversity, and inclusion, as well as improving efficiency.
• Expand your skills and abilities in a supportive and innovative environment.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do:

• Lead an enthusiastic team to enhance our service offering and embrace innovative ways of working to deliver high-quality HR services to our 5,000-strong medical workforce.
• Develop and embed medium to long-term resourcing strategies to reduce vacancy rates and support resourcing plans.

• Improve the quality of our attraction, selection and onboarding processes to provide an engaging and inclusive approach

• Innovate our recruitment approach to attract junior and other grades, ensuring we deliver a proactive approach to rotations and filling vacant posts and support the development of new roles to address specialty shortages

• Establish brand awareness and create candidate attraction and retention strategies.

• Provide training and education for managers, rota coordinators, and HR colleagues on medical terms and conditions.
• Embed a strong governance culture supporting the engagement of medical staff through substantive, bank, honorary and other types of contract.
• Collaborate with various departments, including the People & OD teams, Medical Director's Office, Medical Education, divisional colleagues, the consultant body, and operational management teams, to fully contribute to the management of our medical workforce at a Trust level and with external partners.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters degree or equivalent level of training, knowledge, skills and experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable criteria

• CIPD

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in managing medical workforce employee relations and terms and conditions
• Record of achievement in innovation and workforce transformation
• Record of achieving effective change management
• Experience in leading, managing and training a team of direct reports.
• Significant experience of senior leadership and partnership working gained within either public or private sector organisations
• Demonstrable success achieving demanding targets and meeting service level agreements
• Experience identifying, analysing solution, making recommendations and delivering HR local or national priorities and innovative initiatives within budgetary / time constraints.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of delivering medical productivity transformation programmes
• Active involvement in medical workforce developments at a sector or national level

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Detailed knowledge of M&D terms and conditions, employment law as it applies to M&D staff, including 2016 junior doctors contract
• Highly developed business acumen and sound political judgement in working within complex policy and diverse range of interest groups.
• Interpreting national guidance and identifying local impact
• Able to draft complex business cases, tendering documents and policies.
• Able to build credible and influential working relationships at all levels within and outside the organisation
• Able to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands.
• Able to develop productive, collaborative working relationships
• Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a range of key HR and resourcing projects and initiatives.

Desirable criteria

• Detailed junior doctor rota compliance and rostering knowledge

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 455.8KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)