Chief People Officer

We are seeking an inspirational and inclusive leader who is currently serving as a Chief People Officer or is an experienced Deputy Chief People Officer in a comparable organisation. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will be a key member of the Executive Team and a non-voting member of the Board of Directors. As Chief People Officer at one of the UK's leading cancer centres, you will be accountable for the strategic leadership and operational delivery across the workforce agenda and lead the Workforce Directorate.

With a strong track record of successful workforce and resource management, ensuring high performance and holding individuals to account, you will have experience of building cohesive teams and inspiring others to achieve excellence. You will champion our values, fostering behaviours that place patients at the heart of everything we do and recognise staff for their contribution.

Main duties of the job:

• Demonstrate significant experience and a proven track record whilst bringing credibility, presence, leadership, and ambition to inspire confidence and influence colleagues at every level.
• Provide strong, visible, compassionate, and values-based leadership and bring a deep commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
• Possess excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Show a demonstrable passion for excellent patient care and a genuine commitment to staff engagement.

Working for our organisation:

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man. Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future.

We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do. Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level, ideally masters, or equivalent experience.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) or equivalent professional credibility.

Skills, abilities, and personal qualities:

• Strategic and operational workforce leadership capability.
• High-level influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to represent the Trust and build trusted partnerships across systems.
• Visible, inclusive, and compassionate leadership style that promotes an open culture, empowers teams and role-models high professional standards.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to reducing health inequalities through population health approaches and neighbourhood-based models of care.
• Resilience and personal effectiveness to operate in a high-profile, high accountability role, managing competing priorities and delivering through others.

Knowledge and experience:

• A demonstrable track record of shaping and delivering workforce strategy in environments of transformation and change, working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
• A deep and current understanding of workforce strategy, organisational development, employee legislation and HR practice.
• Evidence of building and leading high-performing people functions.
• Strong employee relations experience, including constructive working with trade union partners.
• Experience of operating at Board / Executive level, contributing to organisational strategy, governance and assurance, and effective decision making.
• Understanding of the role of digital, data and operational intelligence in improving quality, performance, and productivity.

The Trust takes active responsibility for meeting national guidance and legal requirements in relation to our Safeguarding Policy, including local arrangements for the protection of adults at risk. The Trust is committed to providing high standards of both patient and staff experience. To support us in doing this, the Trust, in partnership with Trade Unions, has developed and embedded key values and behaviours that all staff are required to demonstrate throughout their employment.

The Trust's values and behaviours support the Trust Vision 'to provide the best cancer care to the people we serve' and our Mission 'to improve health and wellbeing through compassionate, safe and effective cancer care'. We promote and support diversity in our workforce. The Trust has staff networks such as Ethnic Diversity Staff Network, LGBTQ+ Staff Network, Armed Forces Staff Network, MAPLE Staff Network & Menopause Support Group. The Trust does not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment and has firmed up processes for reporting this, including a dedicated Freedom To Speak Up (FTSU) Guardian.