Chief People Officer

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) delivers community-based healthcare services to the 1.2 million residents of Birmingham and specialist services across the West Midlands region.

We are committed to delivering the best care we can to those who need our services and to working with our partners within the Birmingham, Solihull and The Black Country to help build healthy communities. We are one of the largest providers of NHS community services in the country, with over 5,000 colleagues working across 200 sites and an annual turnover of £400 million.

We are at the forefront of developing "neighbourhood health" and integrated models of care that support people to stay well in their homes and communities.

We serve some of the most deprived communities and most ethnically diverse communities in the country and we recognise the importance of tackling inequality and its impact on health and life chances.

We know that we can only deliver successfully through our people. Our vision, underpinned by our values, commits us to becoming a Great Place to Work supporting our colleagues to deliver for our patients and service users. We have made good progress towards this ambition in recent years but we know we have more to do to consistently embed a culture based on our values.

We are looking for a compassionate, inclusive and inspiring leader to join the team as Chief People Officer. The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trust's organisational development, human resources and workforce development functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed an organisational culture based on our Trust values.

We are looking for a values-led leader with significant experience of leading organisational development, leading people and workforce strategies within a large and complex organisation. Senior experience, ability and a passion for community services and the people who provide them are more important than specific-sector experience. Above all you will share our values and our commitment to Best Care:
Healthy Communities.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of the largest Community Trusts.

The Chief People Officer will play an active part in the development of our partnerships across the Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country system. The postholder will play a full role in regional and national networks representing the work of the Trust to stakeholders including NHS England.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

The Chief People Officer will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership of the Trusts organisational development, human resources and workforce functions ensuring the delivery of our commitment to become a Great Place to Work and enabling us to embed a culture based on our values. The Chief People Officer will:

• lead our approach to organisational development, engagement and leadership building a compassionate, inclusive and improving culture;
• ensure an effective approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of our colleagues including the prevention and management of sickness…