Chief People Officer

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join us as Chief People Officer. This exciting and demanding role represents a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and inspirational leader to join us on our journey to make LGT a great place to work and help deliver on our agreed priorities. We are looking for an inspirational and collaborative leader who is able to quickly build credibility within our organisation and across our health and care system. The successful candidate will join a high-performing and driven executive leadership team, will have a track record of inclusive, progressive and innovative leadership, and will be motivated by our dynamic, complex and challenging environment, our improvement journey and the potential to build on this further as we seek to deliver against our vision to be exceptional., The Chief People Officer will:

Lead the development and delivery of the Trust workforce strategy.

Be responsible and accountable for the professional leadership of the workforce function, including HR businesspartnering, employee relations, recruitment, temporary staffing, workforce information, education and development,occupational health, wellbeing and engagement, libraries, medical workforce, and medical education teams, ensuring alignment to the Trust strategy.

Contribute as a board member to the delivery of the Trust strategy

Lead Exec for the People and Place Committee

Provide workforce expertise and assurance to the Trust Board, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, statute,and employment law.

Lead on the development of a workforce that is flexible, adaptable and fit for the future as service demands and needs change., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations