Associate Director of People and CultureNHS

Job summary

The Associate Director of People and Culture will provide director level leadership for the organisation's people and culture agenda, with overall accountability for people strategy, workforce planning, organisational design and cultural development, ensuring that people considerations are fully embedded in Executive and Board decision making and organisational planning. The postholder will work with the Executive Team to shape and embed a high performing culture that supports NEMS strategic objectives for growth, sustainability and service excellence.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Director of People and Culture will act as the organisation's lead for people and culture, providing strategic counsel to the Chief Executive, Executive Team and the Board, ensuring the people, culture, workforce and organisational implications of strategic, operational and financial decisions are fully considered, planned for and assured.

The Associate Director of People and Culture will provide operational leadership, leading the HR function ensuring that day to day operational delivery remains efficient, effective and responsive. The post holder will lead the overall people function through senior colleagues, setting strategic direction for workforce planning, organisational development, equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership capability and HR transformation.

Job description

• Provide clear executive and senior management leadership on people strategy, organisational development, workforce planning, organisational design and cultural change which brings about lasting and sustainable change.
• Provide strategic people advice to the Chief Executive, Executive Team and the Board and senior leaders, including oversight of the organisation's approach to complex or sensitive employee relations matters where appropriate.
• Provide strategic oversight of the HR function, setting direction and accountability. Lead the efficient and effective running of the HR function including ensuring that HR policies, systems, processes and management information are effective, up to date and support consistent, legally compliant and high quality people management across the organisation and are aligned with operational needs.
• Develop, implement and maintain an effective people strategy to incorporate HR, organisational development, workforce planning, culture and capability priorities aligned to NEMS agreed business strategy.
• Lead organisational development activity that supports cultural change, employee engagement, leadership capability, management development and improved organisational performance.
• Be responsible for HR and OD budgets and resources, ensuring that they are allocated effectively for the delivery of intended outcomes in a manner which demonstrates value for money and compliance with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Lead responsibility for equality, diversity and inclusion across the organisation, setting the strategic direction, measures and leadership expectations needed to support an inclusive workplace culture.
• Sponsor and lead the leadership and capability development strategy for non-clinical services, ensuring that programmes support organisational capability, employee performance and future workforce needs.
• Work with the Operations Director and Medical Director to ensure that clinical and non-clinical mandatory training requirements are clearly defined, appropriate, compliant, effectively monitored and regularly reviewed.
• Lead relevant HR transformation and improvement projects, including the implementation and effective use of HR systems, data and reporting to support decision making and service improvement
• Provide regular assurance to the Executive Board on workforce risk, employment compliance, culture, equality and leadership succession, using data and insight to inform strategic action.
• Sponsor organisation-wide workforce transformation and organisational design programmes, delegating day-to-day delivery through the senior people team.
• Provide executive leadership to the communications function to ensure internal communications are clear, consistent and aligned with NEMS business, people and cultural objectives.

About us

About NEMS

NEMS CBS is a high quality, high performing; not-for-profit organisation which delivers integrated urgent care and urgent primary care services to over 1 million patients. Responsive, adaptable and continually evolving, we have a reputation for delivering locally-tailored, safe, effective and cost-efficient services with high levels of patient satisfaction.

We are committed to investing in our people and have an established programme of learning and development, successfully developing our own Urgent Care Practitioners, Telephone triage clinicians and Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

NEMS currently operates 3 main services: (1) Integrated Urgent Care across Nottinghamshire serving a patient population of over 1 million, including home visiting, remote consultation and clinical assessment services; (2) Urgent Primary care provision located within the A&E Department at QMC, (3) A 24-hour walk-in urgent primary care service adjacent to Kings Mill Hospital A&E, Mansfield.

NEMS is committed to the NHS Values (as set out in the NHS Constitution March 2023).