AD of Employee Relations, Learning & Development & Occupational Health: Sponsorship Available

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our senior People leadership team and shape three key services that directly influence our people, culture and organisational performance.

We are looking for an experienced and credible senior HR leader to provide strategic leadership across Employee Relations, Learning & Development and Occupational Health & Wellbeing.

With significant transformation underway across the Trust, you will have the opportunity to influence how we support, develop and care for our workforce, while strengthening management capability and creating a positive employee experience.

Main duties of the job

You will provide strategic leadership across Employee Relations, Learning & Development and Occupational Health, working closely with Executive Directors, senior leaders, managers and staff-side colleagues.

A key focus will be developing a more proactive approach to employee relations, strengthening management capability and ensuring complex workforce matters are managed fairly, consistently and effectively.

You will also lead the development of our learning, leadership, health and wellbeing approaches, using workforce intelligence to identify risks and opportunities and drive improvement across the Trust.

As a senior member of the People Directorate Leadership Team, you will contribute to Trust-wide workforce strategy, transformation and organisational performance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Chartered Member or Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD/FCIPD) or equivalent professional qualification.
  • Master’s degree in Human Resources or equivalent level of experience.

Desirable

  • Executive leadership qualification.
  • Accredited coaching qualification.
  • Qualification in mediation, organisational development or workplace investigation

Experience

Essential

  • Significant senior HR leadership experience within a large and complex organisation
  • Proven experience of leading Employee Relations services, including complex case management, workforce policy development and employment litigation risk management.
  • Experience of leading and developing Learning and Development strategies aligned to organisational objectives.

Desirable

  • Experience within an NHS provider organisation.
  • Experience of working across Integrated Care Systems and partnership organisations.

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: 25 October 2026

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