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Hook, Gb

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Head of Workforce Transformation & Planning

Chineham, England, United Kingdom

Outline: Responsible for providing senior HR strategic leadership and professional expertise to the GP Workforce Solutions Service.

Sherfield On Loddon, England, United Kingdom

Outline: The aim of the OD Manager role is to deliver high quality Organisational Development interventions to support SCWs ambitions for change and growth, influencing and fostering inclusive leadership and talent. The role delivers whole organisational impact and application requiring engagement with Senior Leaders and staff across the organisation.Key Responsibilities:• Design and deliver a range of OD programmes and interventions supporting the development of skills, talents, and leadership at all levels of the organisation. • Develop insightful and appropriate OD interventions that align with SCWs strategy, vision, values and desired culture.• Work with Service Lines to understand their workforce challenges and ambitions and provide a flexible, professional and customer orientated OD service to support strategic aims.

Worthy Down (Winchester)

Outline: Provision of strategic workforce planning and project portfolio management for a large multi-site Defence organisation delivering trained police, logisticians and administrators to the field army.Key Responsibilities:• Principal advisor to the Senior Leadership Team on Establishment/Workforce Management.• Lead on the marketing, boarding and candidate assessment process. • Manage allocation of staff to projects and secondments.• Deliver organisational change and resource planning, providing support and insight into significant change projects.• Establishment SME supporting Pj ARIEL, tasked to deliver £125m saving through workforce restructure by 2030 without reduction to organisational capability.

Bulford, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Outline: Head of People, leading a team of 22 HR generalists, accountants and administrators for an army regiment consisting of c550 personnel. The period included a 6-month secondment to CAPITA in support of regional recruiting operations for the army.Key Responsibilities:• Provide technical HR advice/assurance to the Executive Leadership Team. • Deliver the audit function for both public and service fund expenditure, including payroll. • Control first line arbitration in grievance cases and management of associated financial casework.• Data Protection Advisor responsible for ensuring that compliance with GDPR is maintained.• Manage the HR risk register.

Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Mytchett, Surrey, United Kingdom

Wiltshire

I was responsible for the provision of HR business partnering and payroll assurance for a defence organisation consisting of 9000 personnel. I acted as the competent authority and inspectorate for the assurance of personnel administration and budgetary administration across all departments and provided technical advice/assurance and the audit function as well as overseeing the appraisal administration for 350 HR professionals. I provided advice on database optimisation and establishment administration. I organised, managed and controlled appraisal administration across the entire HR function within the organisation. I provided the audit function for all service fund accounts held in accordance with the Charities Commission regulations. I collated data from organisations within the region for analysis and for the production of reports to higher formations. I was responsible for the career management and control of external training delivery for all HR personnel. I also controlled access to the personnel administration database. In addition, as part of the competent authority, I was responsible for the monitoring of KPIs across all departments in order to maximise the effectiveness of the organisation. I have organised and delivered seminars providing a forum to assist, mentor and coach the HR staff and line managers ensuring that compliance with current regulation was maintained. I promoted continuous improvement and contributed to the development of best practice. I was responsible for first line arbitration in grievance cases and manage associated financial casework. I was responsible for the communication and dissemination of information and instruction regarding employment law and organisational policy changes, ensuring compliance through audit.

Winchester

I was responsible for co-ordinating all maintenance and re-design of all courses delivered, or licensed by the Defence College of Logistics and Personnel Administration. I organised the delivery of timely and effective training support functions including, training development, analysis and evaluation. I provided advice and guidance to training staff on coaching methods and the delivery of training material. I was responsible for the control and management of the organisational change process. I was the health and safety representative for the Training Support department and was responsible for the control and management of the risk register and for conducting risk assessments in accordance with HSE guidelines.

Hampshire

I was responsible for the maintenance and functional control of the HR output for the organisation. I was required to assist and advise in the training of military staff and civilians delivering the administrative capability. I initiated continuation training and monitored technical expertise within the organisation. I advised on the deployment of personnel within the organisation, in support of their training needs and career management. I was responsible for the administration of the organisation’s Sickness Absence Management (SAM) process and the facilitation of appraisal management for all staff. My responsibilities included the implementation of administration policy laid down by current organisational regulations and control the electronic and hard copy documentation and reporting procedures for all military personnel within the organisation. I was responsible for the provision of technical supervision of the recruitment, termination and discipline administrative processes and for the production of administrative reports and returns as required. I was responsible for the preparation of the organisation’s administrative and financial documentation for audit.

Thirsk

I was responsible for the development of the continuous improvement strategy within an engineering workshop environment. Following the implementation of a Quality driven strategy, I was tasked to compile and maintain the Workshop Quality Manual in accordance with the ISO 9000 standard. Additional responsibilities consisted of the management and control of all internal audit and follow on analysis with a view to the development of continuous process improvement. I organised benchmarking activity and lead on change initiatives to ensure continued compliance with the standard.

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Executive Mba, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Ba(Hons), Business

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