Deputy Head of Workforce

Job overview

Are you an ambitious senior workforce leader ready to shape the future of people services across one of the UK’s largest and most complex NHS organisations?

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is looking for an exceptional Deputy Head of Workforce to play a pivotal role in delivering strategic workforce leadership across our corporate services, with a particular focus on the Directorate for Data, Technology and Information (DT&I).

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a major digital and organisational transformation agenda. You will be a trusted strategic HR adviser to the Chief Digital Information Officer and senior leadership teams, supporting a directorate that spans Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, as well as the strategic people leadership across our GSTT Corporate Services.

Main duties of the job

In this influential role, you will help shape corporate workforce strategy, lead complex organisational change, strengthen leadership capability and use workforce intelligence to drive better decisions.

You will work across organisational boundaries, partnering with senior leaders, staff-side colleagues and People Directorate specialists to deliver practical, inclusive and future-focused workforce solutions.

We are looking for someone who can combine strategic insight with operational grip. You will bring significant senior HR business partnering experience, strong organisational change expertise and the credibility to influence at executive and senior leadership level.

You will be confident using workforce data, leading transformation, managing risk, developing people plans and supporting leaders through complex change.

You will also play a key role in championing our values: Caring, Ambitious and Inclusive. We want someone who is passionate about creating a fair, compassionate and high-performing workplace, and who will actively support our commitments to equality, diversity, inclusion, with a focus on anti-racism.

This is a role for a collaborative, resilient and forward-thinking workforce professional who wants to make a tangible difference to staff experience, service transformation and patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In order to be successful in this role you need to be a senior HR or workforce professional with:

• Significant strategic and operational HR business partnering experience in a large, complex organisation
• Strong experience of leading organisational change, service redesign and workforce planning
• Highly developed communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• The ability to analyse complex workforce information and translate it into clear action
• Experience of working with senior leaders to deliver people priorities
• A strong commitment to partnership working, inclusion, anti-racism and the Trust’s values
• Chartered CIPD membership, a relevant master’s degree or equivalent experience, and evidence of continuing professional development.