Associate Director of Workforce

Job overview

A rare opportunity for an enthusiastic, values-driven and strategic Associate Director (AD) of Workforce to join Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (BWC).

At Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, you are part of something truly exceptional. As one of only two dedicated women’s and children’s NHS foundation trusts in the UK, we provide specialist care that changes lives across the West Midlands and beyond.

As an Associate Director of Workforce, you will provide strategic leadership of our Workforce Transformation, Employee Relations, ESR/Payroll and Medical Workforce functions, supporting the wider People and Education Directorate to sustain a diverse, capable and multi professional workforce.

In this role, you will build effective partnerships with trade unions, leading complex negotiations and consultations, whilst presenting sensitive workforce issues to senior leaders. Using high-quality workforce insight to drive strategic decision-making, you will lead organisation-wide initiatives that enhance staff engagement, wellbeing, and overall performance outcomes.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll bring…

• Highly specialist knowledge of HR, employment law and terms and conditions and the current challenges facing health and  social care
• Extensive experience of developing and delivering HR strategies at a senior level in a large complex organisation
• A record of innovation and successfully developing and supporting organisational transformation in a large,                multidisciplinary organisation
• Educated to masters level or equivalent qualification / experience, along with MCIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development membership (or equivalent) and evidence of continued professional development

Our patients are at the heart of everything we do and this role will help to embed a culture of quality improvement, clinical expertise, compassionate leadership and continuous learning to ensure the workforce is equipped to meet the needs of children, young people and families.

We offer you the opportunity to thrive in a multi-professional team. Our working hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday and we support a hybrid working approach between our sites and working from home.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Provide strategic leadership across workforce, employee relations, medical workforce, ESR and payroll services.
• Lead the development and implementation of workforce strategy, policy and transformation programmes aligned to Trust priorities.
• Act as the Trust’s senior expert on employment relations and medical workforce matters, ensuring compliance with legislation and best practice.
• Build strong and effective partnerships with trade unions, leading negotiation and consultation on complex and sensitive organisational change.
• Provide high-quality workforce intelligence and insight to support strategic decision-making and performance improvement.
• Lead organisation-wide initiatives to improve staff engagement, wellbeing and staff survey outcomes.
• Present complex and often contentious workforce issues to senior committees and executive leaders, influencing decisions and securing agreement.