# Chief People Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-people-officer/c0810a2c-cb3c-4523-8b68-5e0a994b3934 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-people-officer/c0810a2c-cb3c-4523-8b68-5e0a994b3934.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** VSM - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T15:31:04.925Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Chelsea/The_Royal_Marsden_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Workforce/Workforce-v8130024 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8130024?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The next Chief People Officer will build on strong foundations and lead the next phase of the people agenda for the Trust. Reporting to the Chief Executive, Dame Cally Palmer CBE, and as a full member of the Executive Team and Trust Board, the CPO will lead the development and delivery of workforce strategy across The Royal Marsden. The role carries responsibility for workforce planning, organisational development, leadership and talent, equality, diversity and inclusion, employee relations, reward, workforce systems and analytics, and education and professional development. The CPO will be a trusted adviser to the Chair, Chief Executive and Board, and a credible, values-led partner to clinical, research and operational leaders at every level of the organisation. ### Main duties of the job We are seeking an exceptional executive leader with significant board or executive-level experience of successful people leadership in a large, complex organisation. Candidates will bring a demonstrable track record of shaping and delivering workforce strategy in environments of transformation and change, deep experience of building high-performing people functions, and the credibility to operate at the top table of one of the NHS's most respected specialist trusts. Above all, we are looking for a leader who is strategic, intellectually curious and personally values-driven, with a track record of delivering excellence and impact, a genuine commitment to inclusion, and the resilience and judgement to lead through complexity. This is a rare opportunity to shape the workforce agenda at one of the world's leading cancer centres, at a moment of real consequence for the Trust and the patients it serves. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information on this role, please see the attached candidate information pack - Lead the development, delivery and continuous refresh of the Trust's workforce and organisational development strategy, anchored in the Five-Year People Plan 2025-2030 and aligned to the Five-Year Clinical Strategy and the joint research strategy with the ICR - Represent The Royal Marsden externally at regional, national and international levels on workforce matters. - Provide executive leadership of the Trust's equality, diversity and inclusion agenda as it relates to theworkforce, including the Workforce Race Equality Standard, Workforce Disability Equality Standard andgender equality - Continue to modernise the people function's operating model, systems and processes, with a strong focuson user experience for managers and colleagues ## Job Details The next Chief People Officer will build on strong foundations and lead the next phase of the people agenda for the Trust. Reporting to the Chief Executive, Dame Cally Palmer CBE, and as a full member of the Executive Team and Trust Board, the CPO will lead the development and delivery of workforce strategy across The Royal Marsden. The role carries responsibility for workforce planning, organisational development, leadership and talent, equality, diversity and inclusion, employee relations, reward, workforce systems and analytics, and education and professional development. The CPO will be a trusted adviser to the Chair, Chief Executive and Board, and a credible, values-led partner to clinical, research and operational leaders at every level of the organisation. ## Job Description We are seeking an exceptional executive leader with significant board or executive-level experience of successful people leadership in a large, complex organisation. Candidates will bring a demonstrable track record of shaping and delivering workforce strategy in environments of transformation and change, deep experience of building high-performing people functions, and the credibility to operate at the top table of one of the NHS's most respected specialist trusts. Above all, we are looking for a leader who is strategic, intellectually curious and personally values-driven, with a track record of delivering excellence and impact, a genuine commitment to inclusion, and the resilience and judgement to lead through complexity. This is a rare opportunity to shape the workforce agenda at one of the world's leading cancer centres, at a moment of real consequence for the Trust and the patients it serves. ## Responsibilities For further information on this role, please see the attached candidate information pack Lead the development, delivery and continuous refresh of the Trust's workforce and organisational development strategy, anchored in the Five-Year People Plan 2025-2030 and aligned to the Five-Year Clinical Strategy and the joint research strategy with the ICR Represent The Royal Marsden externally at regional, national and international levels on workforce matters. Provide executive leadership of the Trust's equality, diversity and inclusion agenda as it relates to theworkforce, including the Workforce Race Equality Standard, Workforce Disability Equality Standard andgender equality Continue to modernise the people function's operating model, systems and processes, with a strong focuson user experience for managers and colleagues ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant board or executive-level people leadership in a large, complex organisation, with the credibility and experience to operate at the top table of one of the NHS's most respected specialist trusts - A demonstrable track record of shaping and delivering workforce strategy in environments of transformation and significant change, ideally working with clinicians or in research-driven, scientific or healthcare environments - Evidence of building and leading high-performing people functions, with a clear point of view on operating model design, technology and analytics; - Strong employee relations experience, including constructive partnership working with trade unions - Experience of leading in high-skill, knowledge-intensive environments, whether in healthcare, research, academia, professional services or comparable settings - Experience of operating in regulated and politically sensitive environments ## Documents - [job features form (pdf, 128.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427251) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 852.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10429302) - [royal marsden trust values (pdf, 715.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2360) - [workplace wellbeing and rewards guide (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2580) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.