Job Description
| JOB TITLE | Director of Organisation and People Development |
| REPORTS TO: | Chief Executive, NHS Ayrshire and Arran |
| SALARY | Ranging from £73,560 to £100,255 per annum dependent upon experience |
Role:
The role of the executive director is to lead NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s development. This will require an innovative and creative approach to organisation development and world class human resource management. Together, these underpin effective health and care related service delivery, and ensure that services have the right capability & capacity for a sustainable future.
Intrinsic to effective development of our organisation, is meaningful participation by staff at all levels, including strong partnership working with staff side and the achievement of Staff Governance Standards.
As an executive director of the NHS board, to proactively formulate recommendations & advice for the NHS board and senior management, taking account of national and regional perspectives in the context of local priorities.
As an Executive Director, to take shared responsibility for ensuring annual priorities are translated into corporate objectives, & cascaded into individual performance plans at all levels. Contribute to the on going leadership of the organisation’s performance management, ensuring timely resolution of delivery problems and effective implementation of agreed changes.
Dimensions
This post operates across NHS Ayrshire and Arran and has influence across the total resource of NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran annual expenditure £655M (08/09)
Population around 400,000
Direct resources responsibility:
- Organisational Development & Human Resources staffing budget 2007-08 £4.5m
- Supplies Budget: £600,000
- Line manages all Human Resource Management, Organisational Development, Workforce Futures, Learning, Health and Safety staff - 125. There are also a number of secondees involved in pay modernisation not in substantive roles
- Due to the developmental nature of the role, there are also individuals / groups who look to this postholder for personal leadership in support of their contributions to various organisational changes & capacity building
- NHS Board Executive Director member of North Ayrshire Community Health Partnership Committee
Role of the Department
The role of the department is to deliver highly professional organisation and human resource development which supports delivery of NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s strategic priorities.
A critical contribution of the organisation and people development function, is supporting and developing all managers and board members in their line management and leadership roles for this large, complex workforce. In particular, we share a challenge to transform the profile and ways of working of the workforce to reflect best practice in international health care delivery whilst living within available resources.
Routinely, the department provides:
- Advice to the NHS board, directors, managers and staff
- Professional leadership across the spectrum of organisation development and human resource management
- Delivery of high quality and equitable services based on best practice and continuous development
- Expertise in new ways of working and developing services to enhance current performance and quality within NHS Ayrshire & Arran, and to promote more effective ways of working to ensure a sustainable organisation in the future
- Assurance of equal opportunities in all employment related activities
- The lead in implementation of integrated strategic OD and operational HRM which reflects the service direction of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, underpinned by staff governance standards
Accountability
The executive director of organisation and human resource development is accountable to the chief executive, for leading NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s organisation development, incorporating world class human resource management, at the core of healthcare delivery, thereby ensuring the right capability & capacity for a sustainable future.
Key Result Areas
As a member of the chief executive’s management team, contribute to leadership of the whole health system, with particular responsibility for ensuring a clear strategic direction is agreed by the NHS board and delivery is supported by an innovative development programme & consistent modern HRM practices.
Bring demonstrable creativity & energy to the development & improvement agendas of the organisation, facilitating needed changes whilst building the capability of those involved to deliver better outcomes. In particular, take a lead role in the key strategic themes being addressed - Transforming Community Relations; Developing integrated care for patients [including patient safety]; Partnership with local authorities via Community Health Partnerships.
Drive continuous improvement to establish world class organisation development and human resource management and people development contributions.
Ensure achievement of the NHS Scotland staff governance standard incorporating modern policy & practice, applied equitably across NHS Ayrshire and Arran.
Promote, nurture in others, and be a role model for, a culture of continuous learning & “Doing the Right Thing” such that everyone in NHS Ayrshire & Arran constantly seeks to enhance patient relations & patient safety, partnership & cross boundary working at every opportunity.
Lead the development of the organisation’s approach to staff health & well being, building from the collaborative model agreed by the NHS Board. Champion life-work balance and take every opportunity to embed this ethos in the policies & practice of NHS Ayrshire & Arran. Lead the development of the ‘work & well being’ agenda into the wider community as part of NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s health improvement ambitions.
Lead executive for staff governance ensuring a clear framework is in place to monitor delivery of the staff governance standard across all of NHS Ayrshire & Arran.
Promotion of partnership working with staff and their representatives, ensuring that effective systems are in place which deliver dynamic engagement of staff rather than relying on a ‘one size fits all’ system.
Professional leadership of the organisation and people development team, on going professional development of all staff, and generating enthusiasm for achieving world class standards, which will be pivotal to current & future healthcare delivery.
