Job overview

Our mission is to be world class in innovative healthcare services, ground-breaking clinical research, and future-focused teaching, ultimately combining world-leading expertise with local care. We are now looking for a talented Chief People Officer who will share our ambition, and work inclusively across the group, providing strategic and operational leadership on all People matters and tackling longstanding recruitment and retention challenges.

Reporting to the Group CEO, the Chief People Officer will be a pivotal appointment to the senior leadership team. Working in conjunction with the Board, group executives and hospital leadership teams the successful candidate will work to strengthen our culture, from ward to the Board, ensuring our values are embedded across the organisation and motivating our staff to deliver the Trust’s vision to provide world class care.

As a voting Board member and inspirational leader, the Chief People Officer will be instrumental in making a clear and visible difference to staff employed by the Royal Free London Group. Providing strategic and operational leadership on all People matters to the Group executives and board, the Chief People Officer will lead the implementation of the RFL People and Education Strategies and delivery of and NHS People Promise.

Main duties of the job

The Chief People Officer will be required to demonstrate the inclusive leadership abilities needed to develop a high-quality and high performing working environment, embedding the trust values in every aspect of the work. In conjunction with the Board, group executives and hospital leadership teams, the successful candidate will work to strengthen our culture, from ward to the Board, ensuring our staff are inspired, enabled and supported to deliver our vision to provide world class care and demonstrate the RFL Group values alongside delivering our ambitious equality, diversity & inclusion and anti-discrimination agenda.

With responsibility for workforce capacity and resilience, the Chief People Officer will seize the opportunities presented within the NHS long term workforce plan to address longstanding recruitment and retention challenges through new, dynamic and flexible career pathways and in collaboration with sector partners in North Central London and wider. They will also provide the means through which colleagues will develop, adapt to and adopt new ways of working to provide care that is more integrated, data driven, digitally optimised and research active. They will play a lead role in the North Central London ICS – role modelling and advocating for system collaboration, integration partnership, and innovation in service of improved quality and sustainability system-wide.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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