Job Description

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.
Human Capital
With over 1,000 professionals in the UK, our Human Capital practice is renowned for providing distinctive depth and breadth of HR and Organisational Transformation services to clients undertaking complex major programmes.
Connect to your Industry
Our HR Strategy and Technology offering consistently innovates and drives HR and Workforce Transformation for some of the largest UK public sector organisations and well-known global brands. In HR Advisory Government and Public Sector (GPS), you will be joining a rapidly growing part of the business that partners with our clients to help them with HR Transformation. This could be building a new people and workforce strategy, employee brand, employee value proposition, reward model, implementing a new HR operating model, redesigning end to end talent processes, development and capability pathways and helping organisations navigate the intersection between automation and human skills.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
As a HR Advisory GPS Director or Associate Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our Health & Social Care HR Advisory team. You will be a key advisor to senior clients, leading complex engagements, and developing innovative solutions to address their most pressing HR challenges. This role requires a deep understanding of the Health & Social Care sector landscape, including its unique regulatory environment and workforce dynamics . At times you may also be asked to support other sectors across GPS, therefore a broader understanding or experience working in UK GPS would be beneficial.
Types of responsibilities can include, but are not limited to:

• Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the Health & Social Care sector. Lead proposal development, client presentations, and relationship management with senior stakeholders. Actively contribute to the growth of the practice by identifying and delivering sales opportunities.
• Client Engagement: Manage complex client engagements, delivering projects, overseeing budget, and risk. Provide expert advice and thought leadership on a range of HR topics, including but not limited to :

o HR strategy and transformation
o Organisational design and change management
o Talent acquisition, development, and retention
o Compensation and benefits
o HR technology implementation (including AI solutions)
o Workforce planning and analytics
o AI and its impact on HR and people
o Compliance and regulatory issues specific to the Health sector .
Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of consultants, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous learning. Provide guidance and support to junior team members, developing their skills and capabilities.
Thought Leadership: Contribute to the development of Deloitte's HR offerings and methodologies within the Health & Social Care sector. Develop and share thought leadership content through publications, presentations, and client engagements.
Risk Management: Be acutely aware of risk management and managing risks associated with people, process, systems, change and commercials .
Practice Leadership: Contribute to the overall growth of the HR Consulting practice, supporting commercial, operational and/or talent management processes.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
We're looking for the right attitude and mindset - willingness to learn is key! Our preference is for you to have experience of working in a fast-paced consultative environment but will consider applicants from a diversity of backgrounds. Our ideal team member will be able to demonstrate:

• Preferably extensive experience in HR consulting or a senior HR leadership role within the Health & Social Care sector, but not essential.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large, complex HR transformation projects within the Health & Social Care sector either in another consulting firm or in-house.
• Deep understanding of HR best practices, methodologies, and technologies relevant to the Health & Social Care sector.
• Experience in leading and managing teams, including mentoring and developing junior staff.
• Strong business development and client relationship management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Experience creating high quality deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with HR technology implementation, including AI solutions, and understanding of ethical considerations and potential societal impacts of AI in HR. Ability to articulate the value proposition of AI in HR to clients.
• Possess excellent facilitation, communication and data analysis skills and have an ability to influence others.
• Have an ability to manage senior stakeholders effectively and manage complex and diverse client scenarios, focusing on high quality and delivery through others even in high pressured, time critical situations .

Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
Connect with your colleagues
"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."- Dan, Technology and Transformation
"The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors." - Sophia, Technology and Transformation
Our hybrid working policy
You'll be based in London, Bristol or Manchester with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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