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Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Educated to degree level, ideally masters, or equivalent experience
- Qualifications
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) or equivalent professional credibility
- 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
- Knowledge and experience
A deep and current understanding of workforce strategy, organisational development, employee legislation and HR practice
- Knowledge and experience
Evidence of building and leading high-performing people functions
- Knowledge and experience
Strong employee relations experience, including constructive working with trade union partners
- Knowledge and experience
Experience of operating at Board / Executive level, contributing to organisational strategy, governance and assurance, and effective decision making
- Knowledge and experience
Experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships including across health and care systems, provider partners, and wider stakeholders
- Knowledge and experience
Understanding of the role of digital, data and operational intelligence in improving quality, performance, and productivity
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Strategic and operational workforce leadership capability
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Strategic intellect and the ability to translate organisational ambition into a coherent workforce agenda
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
High-level influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to represent the Trust and build trusted partnerships across systems
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Visible, inclusive, and compassionate leadership style that promotes an open culture, empowers teams and role-models high professional standards
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Ability to develop leadership capability and talent, including succession planning and performance development
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to reducing health inequalities through population health approaches and neighbourhood-based models of care
- Skills, abilities, and personal qualities
Resilience and personal effectiveness to operate in a high-profile, high accountability role, managing competing priorities and delivering through others
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
Direct recruitment only, no agencies please
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
As a key member of the Executive Team, you will need to demonstrate significant experience and a proven track record whilst bringing credibility, presence, leadership, and ambition to inspire confidence and influence colleagues at every level. The ability to contribute across the breadth of the Board's agenda will be crucial in this critical role.
You will provide strong, visible, compassionate, and values based leadership and bring a deep commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. You will possess excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. A demonstrable passion for excellent patient care and a genuine commitment to staff engagement will be essential.
About us
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.
We are -
- Kind
- Empowered
- Responsible
- Inclusive
Vision, mission and values :: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Details
- Date posted: 24 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Very senior manager (VSM)
- Salary: Depending on experience Dependent on experience
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 158-26-207-EXE
- Job locations: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - The Spine, Paddington Village, Liverpool, L7 3FA, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Candidates interested in this critical post should download the Recruitment Pack for further details and how to apply.
Candidates should apply for this role by completing an application form and providing a CV as well as providing a covering letter to amy.tunna@nhs.net.
Confidential conversations with Joan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer are welcome. Please contactL.fazakerley@nhs.net to arrange.
Interviews are scheduled for 25 September 2026.
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This advert is for Chief People Officer with The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Chief people officer role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 11 Sep 2026.
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