Executive Director of People and Culture, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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This is an exciting time to join the Executive Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as our new Executive Director of People & Culture. We are proud of our recent journey and improvements however, we recognise the opportunities and ongoing challenges facing our Trust and wider health and care partners. In taking on this important role, you will bring energy, talent and innovation to support the further development and implementation of the Trust’s People Plan and underpinning Workforce Strategies and responsibilities in relation to the Trust’s role as ‘Anchor Institution’ and wider system.

We are an organisation of scale and complexity with a workforce of 7500. As a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool, your leadership as Executive Director of People & Culture will impact the health outcomes of a complex and diverse population. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.

To take this critical executive portfolio forward, we will require a talented leader with a track record of providing visible, credible and effective HR and OD leadership in a customer focused setting of similar scale to our Trust. Whether your experience has been gained inside or outside of the NHS, you will bring an approach that is aligned to our core Values of People Centred, Excellence, Compassion and Positive, and you will have a vision for developing a culture that supports our staff to be the best they can be and achieve better care together for the benefit of our patients.

Working as a key member of the Trust Executive Team, the Executive Director of People & Culture will share collective responsibility with the Board for leading organisational and cultural change, and guiding the Trust to become widely recognized as a ‘Great place to work’. Working closely with the executive, clinicians, senior operational teams, and staff networks alongside system partners, you will demonstrate the ability to drive change and improvement within a complex organisation including proven experience of developing Organisational Development Strategies that will align with the Trusts Quality Improvement approach and our ambition, to continually improve care to our local community and our staff.

We recognise that if our new Executive Director of People & Culture is going to achieve genuine and lasting change, they will need outstanding communication, networking and engagement skills, with a dynamic, customer centric approach that promotes a culture that places safety, quality and outcomes at the heart of everything we do. An inclusive leader, you will guide, develop and shape our HR & OD teams while playing a critical role in representing the Trust within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ‘system’, working collaboratively with other Directors of Workforce/HR, at national and regional level.

You will take the lead in ensuring the Trust has a healthy, inclusive, motivated, and highly educated workforce, to support the Trust’s overall objectives, of providing outstanding patient care to our local community. This will include the development and implementation of effective and accelerated leadership and talent management programmes, capable of supporting the Trust’s strategic agenda.

With lead responsibility for the Trust’s Health and Wellbeing offer to our staff, you will ensure best in class evidence-based interventions that support resilience, physical, psychological, and financial well-being are easily accessible, bringing your wide-ranging experience to bear and working with executive colleagues to ensure that the collective and individual employee voice is heard.

We are not underestimating the challenges facing today’s health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of people we serve. If you have the compassion, skills and track record to succeed in this exciting and complex role and help us achieve this ambition, please contact our retained advisors Alumni Harvey Nash who would be delighted to explore this further with you.

For more information and a confidential discussion, please contact Thomas Patterson, Director or Beth Stickney, Principal Researcher.