Band 8b Head of Strategic Talent Management

We are seeking an exceptional Head of Strategic Talent Management to shape the talent management agenda. In this senior leadership position, you will:

• Design and deliver a talent strategy that directly supports our transformation priorities
• Build a future-focused approach to skills and capability development, ensuring we are ready for the challenges ahead
• Shape a compelling employee value proposition that reflects who we are and who we aspire to be
• Partner with senior leaders to further develop a cultivate a culture of inclusion, innovation, and high performance
• Use insight and workforce intelligence to drive strategic decision-making and sustainable workforce development
• Lead system-wide initiatives that strengthen leadership capability and support cultural change.
  
  To achieve out ambitions, we expect you to be a strategic thinker with a passion for people and culture and inclusive workplace, enabled by:
• A deep expertise in talent management, leadership development and organisational culture
• A track record of shaping talent strategies that support large-scale transformation
• The ability to influence and inspire senior leaders, building alignment around shared priorities
• A commitment to inclusion and a belief in the power of diverse talent
• Strong analytical capability, using insight to anticipate future needs and shape long-term solutions
• Confidence navigating complexity and leading change in dynamic environments
  
  We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission. We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care. We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer. Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.