You will drive improvements across the end-to-end recruitment journey, ensuring our processes are fair, inclusive, efficient, and aligned with Trust values and national standards. Using evidence-based insights, you'll lead the transformation of our recruitment services through continuous improvement, digital solutions, and the adoption of best practice. Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and continuously improve inclusive recruitment processes across the Trust, ensuring alignment to NHS and OUH policies. Champion a culture of excellence, innovation, and customer service within the recruitment teams. Act as the Trust's expert on national recruitment, providing specialist advice on legislation, employment standards, medical staffing, and best practice. Oversee the delivery of high-quality medical recruitment services, including senior medical appointments and FPPT requirements. Drive innovation using data, technology, automation, and AI to enhance candidate experience, efficiency, and quality of hire. Provide high-quality workforce insights, reports, KPIs, and forecasting to inform strategic resourcing decisions. Build collaborative relationships with divisional leaders, NHSE/I, ICS workforce leads, suppliers, and external partners. Ensure compliance with legislation, NHS Employers Standards, safeguarding processes, professional registration, DBS, and Right to Work.

Qualifications

Are you an inspiring recruitment leader with a passion for driving inclusive, high-quality, and future‑focused resourcing services? Educated to masters level or equivalent work experience. Postgraduate diploma in Human Resource Management or equivalent. Senior knowledge within Resourcing services (Medical and AFC). Demonstrating an understanding of employment law, Immigration processes and regulations, and Disclosure and Barring checks as they apply to the NHS recruitment process. Previous senior experience of providing complex specialist employment advice. Senior NHS Medical Staffing experience.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. Join us and be at the forefront of delivering an efficient and effective recruitment service that makes a real difference. #J-18808-Ljbffr