Deputy Director Defence Medical Services Workforce and People

This is an exciting new role in Defence Medical Services (DMS).This is a critical senior leadership role responsible for defining and delivering our future workforce and workplace strategies. The successful candidate will play a key leadership role in shaping the culture and ways of working.

Defence Medical Services (DMS) is made up of Royal Naval Medical Services, Army Medical Service, Royal Air Force Medical Service and the Headquarters Defence Medical Service Group.

DMS has a workforce of c.15,000, around 12,200 service personnel (regulars and reservists) and 2,600 civilians. It provides healthcare to 137,000 Regulars and promotes, protects and restores the health of the UK Armed Forces to ensure they are medically fit for deployment throughout the UK and the overseas. Service personnel and civilian healthcare professionals, supported by those with relevant business and technical skills, work together to provide primary healthcare, dental care, rehabilitation, occupational medicine, community mental healthcare and specialist medical care, both in the UK and on operations throughout the world.

The Deputy Director will support the Director General’s aims to stabilise the current workforce, ensure operational readiness, and undertake longer term strategic workforce planning, leading the delivery of these aims across the workforce elements of the activities as well as the wider People Function across Defence Medical Services (DMS).

The current responsibilities of the role include:

• Lead the Defence Medical Services Workforce and People Team.
• Deliver and implement UK Strategic Command People Strategy into DMS including responsibility for the DMS People Programme to deliver, a tailored workforce within the Healthcare & Medical Operational Capability Function.
• Develop and deliver Defence Medical Services whole force strategic workforce planning.
• Address recruitment and retention, including reviewing workforce freedoms and remuneration, working as functional lead with the shared Services for military solutions.
• Support DMS Transformation
• Review HR structures within Defence Medical Services (transformation programme and contribute to wider Top Level Budget work as requested);
• Support Director Medical Personnel and Training in role as Head of Profession for the Medical Profession.

The successful candidate will demonstrate their experience and skills against the following criteria:

• Extensive senior experience in a range of HR functions, with the technical proficiency required to develop the capability and credibility of HR services, including use of data and evidence to inform workforce planning.
• Leadership and management credentials with an ability to set and communicate a clear strategic vision across a diverse team.
• Strong advocate for a learning culture, with a growth mindset, and harnesses the power of shared learning, whilst building and embedding HR & OD&D capability in a wider community.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrable experience of managing key senior relationships, especially at Board/Executive level, and an ability to engage and influence a range of internal and external stakeholders across a complex environment.
• Experience in leading people-focused organisational change within a complex environment, and an ability to manage the associated risk.
• Relevant professional qualification Chartered Fellow/fully qualified member (Level 7) of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent senior level experience.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job contact :

Name :
SCS Management Team
Email :
People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email :
People-CivHR-SCSCandidateSupport@mod.gov.uk