Deputy Head of Workforce

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an exceptional Deputy Head of Workforce to play a pivotal role in delivering strategic workforce leadership across our corporate services, with a particular focus on the Directorate for Data, Technology and Information.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a major digital and organisational transformation agenda. You will be a trusted strategic HR adviser to the Chief Digital Information Officer and senior leadership teams, supporting a directorate that spans Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, and underpins a shared digital strategy centred on Epic, our single electronic healthcare record system.

In this influential role, you will help shape workforce strategy, lead complex organisational change, strengthen leadership capability and use workforce intelligence to drive better decisions. You will work across organisational boundaries, partnering with senior leaders, staff-side colleagues and People Directorate specialists to deliver practical, inclusive and future-focused workforce solutions.

We are looking for someone who can combine strategic insight with operational grip. You will bring significant senior HR business partnering experience, strong organisational change expertise and the credibility to influence at executive and senior leadership level. You will be confident using workforce data, leading transformation, managing risk, developing people plans and supporting leaders through complex change.

You will also play a key role in championing our values: Caring, Ambitious and Inclusive. We want someone who is passionate about creating a fair, compassionate and high-performing workplace, and who will actively support our commitments to equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.

This is a role for a collaborative, resilient and forward-thinking workforce professional who wants to make a tangible difference to staff experience, service transformation and patient care.