Associate Director of People and Culture

The Associate Director of People and Culture will provide director level leadership for the organisation's people and culture agenda, with overall accountability for people strategy, workforce planning, organisational design and cultural development, ensuring that people considerations are fully embedded in Executive and Board decision making and organisational planning. The postholder will work with the Executive Team to shape and embed a high performing culture that supports NEMS strategic objectives for growth, sustainability and service excellence., The Associate Director of People and Culture will act as the organisation's lead for people and culture, providing strategic counsel to the Chief Executive, Executive Team and the Board, ensuring the people, culture, workforce and organisational implications of strategic, operational and financial decisions are fully considered, planned for and assured.

The Associate Director of People and Culture will provide operational leadership, leading the HR function ensuring that day to day operational delivery remains efficient, effective and responsive. The post holder will lead the overall people function through senior colleagues, setting strategic direction for workforce planning, organisational development, equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership capability and HR transformation.

About NEMS

NEMS CBS is a high quality, high performing; not-for-profit organisation which delivers integrated urgent care and urgent primary care services to over 1 million patients. Responsive, adaptable and continually evolving, we have a reputation for delivering locally-tailored, safe, effective and cost-efficient services with high levels of patient satisfaction.

We are committed to investing in our people and have an established programme of learning and development, successfully developing our own Urgent Care Practitioners, Telephone triage clinicians and Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

NEMS currently operates 3 main services: (1) Integrated Urgent Care across Nottinghamshire serving a patient population of over 1 million, including home visiting, remote consultation and clinical assessment services; (2) Urgent Primary care provision located within the A&E Department at QMC, (3) A 24-hour walk-in urgent primary care service adjacent to Kings Mill Hospital A&E, Mansfield.

NEMS is committed to the NHS Values (as set out in the NHS Constitution March 2023).