Medical Staffing Lead

We are seeking an experienced Medical Staffing specialist with a proven track record to lead the Medical Staffing function within the Medical Directorate of Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In this role you will lead and implement medical workforce strategies, develop and execute change management and cultural change initiatives, build strong relationships across the Trust and with stakeholders, manage consultation, restructuring processes, and employee integration, and ensure compliance with employment law, Trust policies, and best practices. Additionally, you will provide expertise on workforce planning, recruitment, and deployment while maintaining positive employee relations and handling complex cases., 1. Develop a medical workforce strategy for the Trust that is in line with the wider Trust workforce strategy and supports the delivery of organisational objectives

2. Drive talent management and succession planning to make sure the Trust has the right medical staff available now and in the future to continually improve their performance

3. Make sure other areas of HR contribute to achieving the Medical Director's objectives to agreed service levels and ensuring that there is effective communication between the HR Specialist teams and the management team exchanging information as appropriate.

4. Identify ways to continually improve the capability of medical staffing you support by reviewing data, investigating trends and using your insight and experience.

5. Lead people projects or be part of a project team delivering your local or the wider medical workforce strategy

6. Provide tactical and pragmatic employment advice to Directors and senior managers and help to find solutions to problems which work for everyone.

7. Be an escalation point for high risk matters in respect of medical staffing issues.

8. Manage and develop the activities of the Medical Staffing team ensuring a high level and quality service at all times, regularly reviewing and updating operating policies and standard operating procedures.

9. Develop clear and robust recruitment systems and processes.

The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree or equivalent experience, be a member of CIPD, and have proven experience in operational and strategic Medical Staffing roles, especially within the public sector, complex settings. You should have expertise in change management, workforce planning, and employee relations, along with strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received