Job Description

The Head of HR and Medical Staffing leads the Operational HR and Medical Staffing teams, ensuring effective workforce and HR practices to support high-quality patient care within the Trust. This senior role involves strategic direction, operational management, and partnership working across multiple HR and medical staffing functions.



The role will lead the teams to ensure that modern, up to date and focused workforce and HR practices are in place to provide the very best support to management and clinical leads whilst ensuring that legal and statutory requirements are met and that resources are used effectively.



The post holder will be required to build strong and effective working relationships with all stakeholders in the development and delivery of the HR agenda including positive partnership working with Trade Union representatives. The post holder will work closely with Directors, clinicians, managers and staff across the organisation and shape the future delivery of best people employment practices.

Leadership and Accountability:

Oversees HR Operational Services, Medical Staffing, Employee Relations, and Occupational Health.

Strategic Workforce Management:

Provides strategic direction on workforce issues, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and effective resource use to support clinical and management teams.

Policy Development and Implementation:

Leads initiatives on HR policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with national legislation, Department of Health requirements, and Trust priorities.

Employee Relations Leadership:

Manages complex employee relations cases, promotes a restorative and just culture, and provides expert advice on disciplinary and grievance matters.

Medical Workforce Oversight:

Leads the medical staffing team and has oversight of recruitment, retention, workforce planning, appraisal, revalidation, job planning, and rota management for medical staff, collaborating with clinical leaders and education teams.

Operational Excellence:

Ensures HR services are prompt, efficient, and responsive, adapting team structures and processes to meet organizational needs and evaluating service impact.

Commitment to Values and Equality:

Champions the Trust's values, equality and diversity policies, safeguarding responsibilities, and a safe working environment free from discrimination and harassment.



Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.



Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.



To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.



Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.



Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.



For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk



Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.



Main Duties



1. The post holder has managerial responsibility and accountability for HR Operations, Employee relations, Medical Staffing and overseeing the Occupational Health contract.



2. Supports development and implementation of People Strategy, in line with Trust and national priorities and initiatives, and leading HR practice.



3. Lead on specific initiatives or policy developments, including negotiating, consultation, implementation and monitoring across the Trust, e.g. Trust wide HR policies and procedures.



4. Supports the strategic development of the organisation through providing professional advice and expertise on a range of issues.



5. Initiates and produces reports as required for a range of Trust wide committees, including Executive Board, Trust Board, and staff side forums.



6. Establishes and implements new policies, procedures or practices across the Trust in response to a range of drivers, including new legislation, Department of Health requirements or local Trust needs. This often includes interpretation of highly complex guidance/legislation.



7. The post holder will lead the teams according to our organisational values and ensure that we are supporting a just and learning culture and that we evaluate the impact of our interactions to ensure the teams are making the right difference and enabling managers to be the best that they can be.



8. The post holder will provide valuable advice and expertise across all services and directorates on organisational change processes, service re-design, service delivery and complex employee relations cases, ensuring that impact to the workforce is managed correctly, sensitively and as efficiently as possible.



Operational Management



9. Ensure that HR operational and advisory services provide a prompt, efficient and high-quality service to directorates which continues to develop in line with evaluation.



10. Identify any changes required within the HR or Medical Staffing teams, including structural or role changes, new ways of working, or a change in focus, and ensures the team's contribution to the Trust remains relevant, timely and responsive to the needs of the organisation.



11. Work with the Medical Director, Medical Staffing Manager and Medical Staffing HR Lead to ensure consistency in application and management of MHPS, job planning, revalidation, rota management and recruitment of medical staff.



12. Ensures that effective Workforce Information processes are in place within HR in order that performance issues within directorates and Trust wide are identified, monitored and actioned.



13. Leads and directs strategic change projects. Retain oversight of all aspects of HR and organisational change across the Trust and deliver distinct change projects that embraces service and cultural change.



14. To report to the Associate Director of People Services on functions, systems and policies ensuring that they are relevant, fit for purpose, compliant with law and regulation and provide efficient support to the Trust business and assurance on relevant productivity and quality measures within the HR function and across the Trust.



15. Ensure that the HR Business Partnering service contributes to the delivery of the culture/engagement, EDI and health and wellbeing aspects of the Trusts People Strategy and that these are successfully embedded within the organisation through the work of the HR Business Partnering Service.



16. Champion best practice Human Resource management. Influence key business decisions to ensure the effective management of staff through the fair, efficient and pragmatic application of best practice; this will include the training and coaching of business managers in workforce policy and practice and the monitoring and development of best practice to embrace diversity in the workforce.