Workforce and People Senior Manager

NIHR South Central Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) is seeking a clinical professional to join our new organisation as a Workforce and People Senior Manager.
The Workforce and People Senior Manager will have overall responsibility for delivery of regional elements of the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) Workforce strategy, including learning, and organisational development (OD), ensuring sites and regional networks have access to the knowledge and skills required to deliver the RDN efficiently and effectively. This includes but is not limited to the delivery of workforce, learning, inclusion, and OD initiatives, as well as other RDN and relevant NIHR strategic development initiatives relating to workforce, inclusion and OD.
The post holder also has responsibility for strategic workforce planning informed by developing robust and accurate workforce intelligence pertinent to research delivery and the development of high-quality learning and training. This post will lead on equality, diversity and inclusion relating to the Regional RDN (RRDN) staff and Agile Research Delivery Teams, supporting strategic development of relevant capability and expertise across the delivery system, and will be knowledgeable of inclusion legislation as well as research governance and related regulations., The RDN is a new organisation with new structures, governance and ways of working. Study delivery in England will be supported through 12 NIHR Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs). These will work with the national Coordinating Centre (RDNCC) and the Department of Health and Care to provide a joint RDN leadership function via the RDN Board, so that the NIHR RDN as a whole functions as a single, transparent organisation with a shared vision and purpose. University Hospital Southampton is the Host Organisation for the South Central RRDN region.
Working Hours and Location
This position is offered on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week). However, for the ideal candidate, there may be limited scope for negotiation.
The post involves hybrid working, with the on-site base being either our Southampton or Oxford office., The NIHR RRDNs will have three key roles which it will fulfil via new models of service delivery and functions, to:
+ Provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England.
+ Enable the strategic development of new and more effective research delivery capability and capacity. This will include bringing research to under-served regions and communities with major health and care needs.
+ Work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR RDN.
This will ensure that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It will also ensure that the NIHR RDN as a whole serves the research delivery needs of investigators and R&D teams and is responsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, life sciences and health research.
The NIHR RRDNs will need to develop excellent relationships with the organisations commissioning and providing health and social care across their regions, which are mapped onto NHS regions and Integrated Care Systems. They will help support research undertaken by those providers and at sites across the region, and promote research meeting the needs of local populations. NIHR RRDNs will work together with an RDN Coordinating Centre to support health and care research delivery for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy as a whole., Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.