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.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. 

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Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.