Company Overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) is one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare providers and a pioneer in medical research. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC in 2017, we cover a broad spectrum of services, including specialist services such as neurological, cardiac and children’s intensive care. Putting patients first is at the heart of everything we do. We work collaboratively to explore new and improved ways of delivering patient-centered care. By empowering our people to innovate, we push the boundaries of medicine to positively impact on patients’ lives. We are committed to innovation and research, encouraging all staff at UHS to share their ideas, and working in partnership with a wide variety of research institutions. We harness the power of teams and pioneer new healthcare methods to consistently deliver high quality patient outcomes. For example: • We were the first hospital in England to use stem cell injections to improve mobility after stroke • We introduced bedside bikes on the recommendation of our Physiotherapy team, reducing patient recovery times • We were one of the first Genomic Medicine Centres in the UK to specialise in diagnosis and treatment of patients with rare diseases and cancers We take pride in enhancing the skills of our staff to aid their career development – facilitated by high quality training and opportunities in a variety of areas – supporting them to reach their full potential. • We provide hospital services to around 1.9 million people in Southampton and south Hampshire • Every year, we treat over 140,000 inpatients and day patients • We also see over 500,000 outpatients and treat over 100,000 emergency cases

Main duties of the job

NIHR South Central Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) is seeking a clinical professional to join our new organisation as a Workforce and People Senior Manager.

The Workforce and People Senior Manager will have overall responsibility for delivery of regional elements of the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) Workforce strategy, including learning, and organisational development (OD), ensuring sites and regional networks have access to the knowledge and skills required to deliver the RDN efficiently and effectively. This includes but is not limited to the delivery of workforce, learning, inclusion, and OD initiatives, as well as other RDN and relevant NIHR strategic development initiatives relating to workforce, inclusion and OD.

The post holder also has responsibility for strategic workforce planning informed by developing robust and accurate workforce intelligence pertinent to research delivery and the development of high-quality learning and training. This post will lead on equality, diversity and inclusion relating to the Regional RDN (RRDN) staff and Agile Research Delivery Teams, supporting strategic development of relevant capability and expertise across the delivery system, and will be knowledgeable of inclusion legislation as well as research governance and related regulations.

Working for our organisation

The RDN is a new organisation with new structures, governance and ways of working. Study delivery in England will be supported through 12 NIHR Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs). These will work with the national Coordinating Centre (RDNCC) and the Department of Health and Care to provide a joint RDN leadership function via the RDN Board, so that the NIHR RDN as a whole functions as a single, transparent organisation with a shared vision and purpose. University Hospital Southampton is the Host Organisation for the South Central RRDN region.

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