Chief People Officer

Letter from the Chief Executive

Dear colleague,

Thank you for your interest in the role of Chief People Officer for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). This is a pivotal leadership appointment for our Trust, and I am delighted that you are exploring the opportunity of applying for this important role.

We deliver a range of emergency, specialist, and planned services to more than 2.5 million residents of Nottinghamshire and its surrounding communities.  We are a large, complex, and person-centred organisation based across three campuses in the city of Nottingham, and we are the largest local employer.

We are focussed on transforming our services and Trust, so that it can better face the current future challenges across the health and social care sector. Whilst NUH has many examples of success, we face a significant challenge. Our People First initiative offers a strategic roadmap to tackle our challenges and to harness the many opportunities available to NUH. People First is driving change at all levels, ensuring that NUH is a progressive organisation. We are committed to making improvements to bring benefits to our staff and patients. We are making many changes and building better engagement with our staff, system partners and wider stakeholders.

We are an ambitious organisation; committed to thinking differently about how we integrate services to deliver safe, high quality and effective care that are sustainable for the future health and wellbeing of our populations. As our role in the Integrated Care System continues to evolve, we are working closely with partners to meet increasing demands and to effect sustainable system change. In recent months, for example, the Board has approved new strategies for urgent and emergency care, planned care and specialised services. These clinically led strategies are at the heart of our drive to modernise and improve our services.

One of the important ways we are working with our system partners is in planning for how we would like to deliver services across and beyond our hospitals in the future. ‘Tomorrow’s NUH’ is one of the ‘full adopter’ schemes in the Government’s New Hospital Programme, set to receive funding towards the end of this decade. Tomorrow’s NUH offers a unique and exciting opportunity to significantly invest in our buildings, our people, and the technology we use in ways that will make a real difference to the health and lives of the people we serve.

Through the New Hospital Programme, we are building the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), a scheme to build a new 70-bed NHS rehabilitation facility within the grounds of the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough. The NRC is adjacent to the existing Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre to facilitate the sharing of best practice in rehabilitation. Construction is underway at the NRC, and it is anticipated that the new centre will welcome its first patients in early 2025.

We are working closely with Donna Ockenden, Chair of the Nottingham University Hospitals Maternity Review. This Review was opened officially in September 2022. We are committed to supporting this Review and to learning the lessons from the Review’s conclusions. Our Chief People Officer will play a pivotal role in supporting our organisation to take forward the recommendations, ensuring that best practice is embedded in our everyday work. The recent CQC inspection of Maternity Services saw significant improvement and our rating went from inadequate to requires improvement. Similarly, our rating for Well-Led went from inadequate to requires improvement, with good feedback about our ambition to improve culture and leadership at NUH.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust and help support our future ambitions. We are looking for a new Chief People Officer, a central role underpinning our capabilities to deliver on our visions and ambitions as we enter this next phase in the development of our Trust. We are looking for an experienced individual to be the Chief People Officer of one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country.  The post-holder is responsible for supporting the Trust to achieve its aim of putting people first in everything we do, providing visible and transformational leadership to our people professionals and the general workforce. The post-holder will work closely with all Directors and will be the executive lead for Health and Safety .

The Chief People Officer will make an important contribution towards developing, promoting, and delivering the Trust’s strategic vision for our workforce. This includes enabling diversity in all its forms, promoting staff wellbeing, and creating a just culture of learning and improvement. We seek an inclusive and inspirational leader who demonstrates our Trust values and who can build, lead, motivate and develop our multidisciplinary teams to improve performance and deliver better care and experience to patients.

I hope that this microsite gives you insight into our Trust, this role and the recruitment process and I do encourage you to contact our recruitment partners at GatenbySanderson Emily Perry, Emily Smith or Emma Pickup on 07538 979416 to discuss your interest further or if you need any further details.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Anthony May
Chief Executive  OBE DL