Deputy Chief People Officer

The Deputy Chief People Officer (Deputy CPO) is a pivotal member of the People Directorates senior leadership team and will support the Chief People Officer in the overall leadership and management of the People directorate function. This will include leading the development and implementation of the People Strategy, enabling the Trusts to recruit, retain and develop the best workforce to deliver its goals and objectives and support high quality patient care. In addition, the Deputy CPO will ensure that key transactional people directorate functions deliver to our Clinical board and corporate areas, facilitating and enabling high levels of workforce engagement and performance to support delivery of the Trusts strategic and performance goals and its improvement priorities.The Deputy CPO has a wide-ranging and extensive portfolio including: Leading strategy and policy Overseeing governance, risk and performance indicators for the directorate Lead on communications and stakeholder management
Manage the newly developing HRBP model/partners which will support clinical and corporate areas Strategic workforce planning. The Deputy CPO will support the CPO in providing support to members of the Executive team and the Trust Board in relation to strategic, sensitive and complex people issues. The postholder will deputise for the CPO as required, including general oversight of the other key functional areas.