Joint Chief People Officer: Sponsorship Available

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Joint Chief People Officer

Location: Trust wide, with presence across both organisations

Salary: Attractive

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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an exceptional Joint Chief People Officer to help shape the next phase of our partnership and lead a people agenda that supports integrated, high-quality care across both organisations.

Our Trusts have worked in close partnership since 2020 and have continued to take significant steps towards greater collaboration. We have a Joint Chair and Non-Executive Directors, and most of our Executive Directors now work across both Trusts. Together, we serve communities across Greater Manchester and Derbyshire through more than 11,500 dedicated colleagues and a combined annual budget approaching £900 million. Guided by our shared CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence, we are committed to delivering high-quality, integrated health care services for our populations and creating a great place to work for all our people.

Main duties of the job

This is a pivotal role on our Joint Board and Executive Team reporting to our Chief Executive Karen James OBE. With the opportunity to shape an ambitious People agenda, you will enable our workforce to flourish as we maximise the opportunities offered by partnership and integration; supporting continuous quality improvement and the sustainability of our services. Working across both organisations and with wider system partners, you will champion inclusive leadership, workforce innovation, culture change, and organisational development, ensuring our workforce remains at the heart of our strategic decisions.

We are seeking an inspirational and values-led People leader, with significant board-level or equivalent experience gained in comparably large, complex, unionised, and multi-professional environments. With a track record of delivering workforce transformation and embedding cultural change, you will demonstrate credibility in influencing at all levels and be comfortable navigating complexity both internally and externally. Most importantly, you will share our commitment to inclusion, compassion, and continuous improvement, creating conditions where our colleagues can thrive and deliver the very best care to our communities.

We are keen to attract candidates who bring diverse perspectives and welcome applications from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly from people currently under-represented at board level in the NHS.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Development

Essential

  • Chartered Member with the CIPD (MCIPD/FCIPD)
  • Degree-level education or equivalent experience gained in a senior leadership role.
  • Evidence of continuous professional development, with demonstrable knowledge and experience within the People profession/specialism.

Desirable

  • Educated to Master’s Degree level (ideally in a people profession related field)

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • Substantial experience at a senior management/board level in an organisation(s) of similar size and complexity
  • Outstanding reputation as a leader, with a proven track record of producing high quality results in the management and leadership of People services
  • A proven track record in Strategic Workforce and with demonstrable experience of leading teams across all the People functional disciplines.
  • Experience of successfully designing and delivering tangible improvements in staff engagement.
  • Strong track record in change management and improving organisational effectiveness.
  • Significant experience of delivering change through partnership working
  • Experience of developing and implementing transformative, organisation-wide cultural change

Desirable

  • Experience in organisational development.
  • Sound understanding of the current NHS policy context, financial regime and workforce and training issues and of NHS working practices

Personal Skills

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Able to lead and motivate others, with strong influencing and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to cope with complex organisational issues and able to relate to a wide spectrum of multi-disciplinary professionals
  • Able to assess priorities and make decisions, quick to grasp a point, able to “think on your feet”, and confident to influence, persuade and give leadership and direction.
  • Ability to cope under pressure, with a resilience to work with ambitious deadlines.
  • Self-motivated, energetic and flexible, with well-developed interpersonal skills.

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Calm, considered and resilient under pressure
  • Emotionally intelligent with the confidence to challenge constructively at the most senior level
  • A genuine commitment to inclusion, fairness and dignity of every colleague

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: 2 October 2026

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