Assistant Director of People Services

University Hospitals of Liverpool Group is looking for an exceptional Assistant Director of People for the Group HR Shared Services to lead the development of a modern, integrated and high performing Group People Services function. This is a unique opportunity to share how transactional services are delivered across the Group, bringing together expertise, systems, processes and teams to create a consistent, efficient and digitally enabled service for our people and our clinical services. We are looking for a leader who can see beyond traditional transactional HR services and understand how people, technology, data, systems and process improvement can come together to create improved quality workforce services. As Assistant Director of People you will provide senior leadership for the development and delivery of our Group wide transactional workforce services. Your portfolio will include;

• Temporary Staffing Bank, a shortlisted Team of the Year in the 2025 HPMA Awards and Nursing Times Workforce Summit finalist 2025 that services over 6,000 bank workers.
• Rostering, a recognised award-winning team in the RL Datix Awards 2025.
• Medical Staffing and Medical Rostering – a newly formed team for Group that creates a fantastic opportunity to grow this service at scale.
• Workforce Systems and workforce data – building on the in-house developments of automation and readying the organisation for the forthcoming national People Solution.
• Employment Services and Payroll controls – leading our internal controls, compliance and assurance.
• Recruitment – developing our service for Group, exploring new and innovative ways to attract talent and diversity. NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities. We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West. We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Dawson Job title: Group Director of People Services Telephone number: 0151 706 2818 For Informal Visits / Conversations, Please Contact Abby Ashcroft (Executive Assistant) on the number above or by email abby.ashcroft@liverpoolft.nhs.uk