Associate Director of People - Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
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Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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RWT has an exciting opportunity for you to join the Senior Leadership Team in the role of Associate Director of People - HR Services.


You will join the HR Team to drive forward the successful delivery of the relevant Trust's strategic and operational People objectives and the performance of the Trust's workforce functions.


This is a critical senior leadership role and the post holder will deputise for the Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development across their portfolio.

The post holder will operate with significant freedom to act with mínimal guidance in order to set goals and targets for others.

The post holder will work with senior colleagues members and clinicians and managers across the Trust; in addition, the post holder will work with senior members of external organisations including in other Trusts, the ICBs and Local Authority.


The role has corporate responsibility for the management, communication and delivery of appropriate workforce governance and policy across the Trust and for managing the development of workforce information systems to support effective corporate governance and delivery of the People Strategy.


  • The post holder has responsibility and accountability to the Director of HR and OD for appropriate workforce governance across the Trust; across all primary, community acute and hosted services (such as the West Midlands Research Network).
  • To provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance, understanding and a high likelihood of robust challenge.
  • Has significant autonomy with an ongoing requirement to work with mínimal guidance and to set goals and standards for others.
The post-holder will deputise for the Director of HR and OD and undertake all duties in line with the requirements of the role to support the Director of HR and OD in the delivery of:


  • Workforce governance and assurance
  • Corporate responsibility as a senior member of the Trust
  • Continuous development of the Workforce and Organisational Development Team to ensure it benchmarks well to deliver a professional, innovative, motivated and effective Workforce, OD and Occupational Health team.
  • The direct line management of the senior Workforce, OD and Occupational Health Teams.


The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.

We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC.

We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.


  • The Associate Director of People will deputise for the Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development as appropriate across the range of responsibilities when required, which will include attendance at key senior meetings attended by the Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development, e.g. Trust Management Committee, Finance and Performance committee.
  • The Associate Director of People will promote a culture of collaboration with clinical and other colleagues, proactively developing positive relationship with internal and external stakeholders.
  • The Associate Director of People will ensure effective arrangements are in place to provide Workforce, OD and Occupational Health support to Operational Divisions and corporate departments (including hosted services such as the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and the Black Country Pathology Service (BCPS)) and will promote closer working with divisional and clinical directors.
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