Chief People Officer: Sponsorship Available

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Job summary

Direct recruitment only, no agencies please

We are seeking an inspirational and inclusive leader who is currently serving as a Chief People Officer or is an experienced Deputy Chief People Officer in a comparable organisation.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive you will be a key member of the Executive Team and a non-voting member of the Board of Directors.

As Chief People Officer at one of the UK’s leading cancer centres you will be accountable for the strategic leadership and operational delivery across the workforce agenda and lead the Workforce Directorate.

With a strong track record of successful workforce and resource management, ensuring high performance and holding individuals to account, you will have experience of building cohesive teams and inspiring others to achieve excellence.

You will champion our values, fostering behaviours that place patients at the heart of everything we do and recognise staff for their contribution.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the Executive Team, you will need to demonstrate significant experience and a proven track record whilst bringing credibility, presence, leadership, and ambition to inspire confidence and influence colleagues at every level. The ability to contribute across the breadth of the Board’s agenda will be crucial in this critical role.

You will provide strong, visible, compassionate, and values based leadership and bring a deep commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. You will possess excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. A demonstrable passion for excellent patient care and a genuine commitment to staff engagement will be essential.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level, ideally masters, or equivalent experience
  • Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) or equivalent professional credibility

Skills, abilities, and personal qualities

Essential

  • Strategic and operational workforce leadership capability
  • Strategic intellect and the ability to translate organisational ambition into a coherent workforce agenda
  • High-level influencing and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to represent the Trust and build trusted partnerships across systems
  • Visible, inclusive, and compassionate leadership style that promotes an open culture, empowers teams and role-models high professional standards
  • Ability to develop leadership capability and talent, including succession planning and performance development
  • Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and to reducing health inequalities through population health approaches and neighbourhood-based models of care
  • Resilience and personal effectiveness to operate in a high-profile, high accountability role, managing competing priorities and delivering through others

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • A demonstrable track record of shaping and delivering workforce strategy in environments of transformation and change, working with clinical and non clinical colleagues
  • A deep and current understanding of workforce strategy, organisational development, employee legislation and HR practice
  • Evidence of building and leading high-performing people functions
  • Strong employee relations experience, including constructive working with trade union partners
  • Experience of operating at Board / Executive level, contributing to organisational strategy, governance and assurance, and effective decision making
  • Experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships including across health and care systems, provider partners, and wider stakeholders
  • Understanding of the role of digital, data and operational intelligence in improving quality, performance, and productivity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 11 September 2026

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