Deputy Director of HR

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Deputy Director of HR to join the Human Resources Team As the Deputy Director of Human Resources, you will support the Chief People Officer in delivering the Trust’s People Strategy, ensuring alignment with the NHS People Plan and People Promise to achieve our Trust vision of five-star patient care. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership, and the ability to build credibility across the organisation. You will foster a culture of inclusion, continuous improvement, and staff engagement while leading workforce initiatives to enhance recruitment, retention, and employee well-being. Please note, this recruitment process will involve an assessment centre which will be held on Monday 7th July 2025. The post holder will develop and lead the HR Directorate reporting through to the Chief People Officer. The post holder will also deputise for the Chief People Officer as required. The post holder will be expected to act independently, taking timely and at times, significant decisions to drive change and improvement by supporting and influencing across the Trust. Services directly managed by this role include; HR Business Partnering Medical HR including Revalidation and Appraisal Learning and Organisational Development Resourcing Temporary Workforce HR systems ie ESR/ Rostering/ TRAC Occupational Health and Wellbeing Workforce Planning and Development Volunteers Equality Diversity & Inclusion Medical and Clinical Education The post holder will be responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of a range of key national and local performance indicators. The post holder will manage the senior managers within the directorate, developing succession plans and supporting the development of individuals across the directorate. Generating a culture where empowerment is the norm and decision-making is allocated appropriately, allowing every individual to feel able to make a valuable contribution. The post holder will participate in the Strategic on-call and will be required to complete with all elements of EPRR (Emergency Preparedness Resilience Response) legislation and training. Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our Services Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018 Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal) National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Malise Szpakowska Job title: Chief People Officer Email address: malise.szpakowska@sthk.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 290 4424