Band 8b Strategic People Change Partner - BathNHS

Job summary

Are you passionate about leading meaningful workforce change that creates sustainable, high quality mental health services to meet the changing needs of our patients, communities and workforce?

We are seeking an exceptional People Change Partner to play a key role in transforming services across the Trust. Working closely with Executive Directors, senior clinical leaders and programme teams, you will help shape strategic workforce solutions that support high-quality, sustainable services and our ambition to be a great place to work.

As a senior people professional, you will lead the workforce aspects of complex transformation programmes, providing expert advice on organisational development, employee relations and change management. You will support service redesign, workforce planning and organisational change, ensuring transformation is delivered effectively and with a positive experience for our people.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence change at scale, make a lasting impact across the Trust, and help build a workforce that is fit for the future while delivering the best possible outcomes for our communities.

This vacancy is being re-advertised. Previous applicants need not apply, as their applications have already been considered.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic workforce and organisational development advice to Directors and senior leaders on transformation, service redesign and workforce change programmes.
• Lead the people aspects of complex organisational change, including restructures, consultation exercises, workforce redesign and implementation of new operating models.
• Develop workforce plans, organisation design solutions and people strategies that support sustainable, high-performing services.
• Build strong relationships with programme leads, operational managers, trade unions and staff representatives to facilitate successful change delivery.
• Lead on complex employee relations matters arising from transformation activity, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, NHS policy and best practice.
• Undertake change impact assessments, workforce risk analysis and consultation planning to support effective decision-making.
• Use workforce data, people analytics and organisational insight to inform transformation plans and evaluate outcomes.
• Support leaders to create inclusive, compassionate and change-capable cultures that promote staff wellbeing, engagement and retention.
• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded throughout organisational change processes.
• Provide expert coaching, challenge and support to senior leaders to enable effective leadership of transformation programmes.

Job description

Please see attached job description for more details about this role. Please also view the job overview attachment which will give you details about the Transformation programme delivery, Workforce Planning and Workforce Change, Engagement and Communication.

About us

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.