• Job Description

  Req#: A0782-26-0021?language=en&page=1166&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  This is an exciting opportunity for a senior HR professional to deliver high impact, organisation wide change. As our Head of HR you will provide strategic leadership across all aspects of people management, workforce transformation and organisational development. You will lead the creation and delivery of our People Strategy shaping modern, evidence based approaches to recruitment, reward, retention and long term workforce planning.

  Acting as a trusted advisor to the Leadership Team, you will influence strategic decision making, lead complex change programmes and strengthen organisational capability. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and embedding a positive, inclusive and values driven culture that reflects our not for profit purpose and commitment to patient centred care.

  This fixed term project provides a unique opportunity to help define how GDOC LTD grows, develops and supports its people ensuring our workforce is engaged, high performing and aligned to our mission and values.

  Hours: Up to 32 hours per week (flexible)

  Term: Fixed Term 12 months

  Location: Hybrid Homeworking with travel to Gloucester and Forest of Dean

  Closing Date: Friday 3rd April 2026

  Interview Date: W/C Monday 6th April 2026

  Main duties of the job

  This is a 12 month fixed term, project based role focused on delivering key organisational workforce priorities within a defined timeframe. The Head of HR will provide senior, organisation wide strategic leadership across all aspects of people management and workforce transformation.

  They will lead the design and implementation of a forward looking People Strategy, shaping modern, evidence based approaches to recruitment, reward, retention, workforce planning and organisational development.

  Acting as a trusted strategic adviser to the Leadership Team, the Head of HR will offer high level insight, constructive challenge and partnership to support complex decision making, organisational priorities and long term service sustainability.

  The post holder will oversee the effective management of complex and sensitive employee relations matters, and will lead on project specific programmes of change. They will build confidence, capability and consistency across the management community coaching leaders, strengthening local HR competence and championing an inclusive, high performing and values led culture.

  This role is ideal for a senior HR professional who can deliver impact quickly, operate with autonomy, and drive forward a defined programme of strategic and cultural development work.

  Reports to:Chief Operating Officer

  About us

  G DOC LTD is a unique, GP-owned organisation all GP surgeries in Gloucestershire are our shareholders. We operate with a not-for-profit ethos, ensuring every decision and service is focused on improving patient outcomes and reinvesting in local Primary Care across the county.

  We directly manage several GP surgeries in Gloucester and the Forest of Dean, providing patient-centred care to more than 45,000 patients. We value continuity of care and practice teams are at the heart of all we do. In addition to our surgeries, we deliver a range of countywide commissioned services designed to improve access, increase capacity, or provide specialist support. Our teams are committed to delivering sustainable, high-quality primary care while fostering innovation and collaboration across the local health system.

  By joining us, youll be part of an organisation that puts people first supporting staff wellbeing, professional development, and a collaborative culture. Youll benefit from the stability, support, and career opportunities of a larger organisation, while still working in close-knit, community-focused teams.

  Details

  Date posted

  04 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £65,000 to £75,000 a year FTE (pro rata)

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  A0782-26-0021

  Job locations

  Quayside House

  Quay Street

  Gloucester

  GL1 2TZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Duties specific to role

  Strategic Leadership

  • Provide senior, organisationwide leadership on all aspects of people management, organisational development and workforce transformation.
  • Design and deliver a comprehensive People Strategy, with clear focus on recruitment, reward, retention, workforce planning and longterm workforce sustainability.
  • Provide highlevel strategic HR insight, advice and constructive challenge to the Leadership Team, influencing decisionmaking and organisational priorities.
  • Use workforce data, trends and analytics to shape strategic thinking, identify risk, forecast future workforce needs and drive continuous improvement.

  Recruitment & Workforce Planning

  • Work closely with the Workforce & Recruitment Lead to enhance recruitment strategy, candidate experience and talent pipelines, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities.
  • Ensure full compliance with safer recruitment standards, including right to work, DBS, references and professional verification.
  • Lead innovative, evidencebased approaches to attract and retain clinical and nonclinical staff.
  • Lead organisationwide workforce planning, including succession planning, pathway development, role redesign and skills mapping.

  Employee Relations, Change & Policy

  • Lead and oversee complex and highrisk employee relations cases, ensuring fair, consistent and defensible outcomes.
  • Lead the people element of complex change programmes, including restructures, TUPE, service redesign and cultural change interventions.
  • Strengthen organisational capability by coaching and advising managers, embedding bestpractice HR approaches and improving management confidence.
  • Maintain and update HR policies, ensuring compliance with legislation, regulatory standards and broader NHS/Primary Care frameworks.

  Culture, Engagement & Wellbeing

  • Champion a positive, inclusive and valuesled organisational culture, aligned with the organisations mission and strategic direction.
  • Develop and deliver strategies that enhance staff wellbeing, engagement, recognition and organisational cohesion.
  • Coach and support leaders to build highperforming teams, manage performance effectively and uphold behaviours consistent with organisational values.

  Reward & Benefits

  • Lead the review, modernisation and ongoing development of reward frameworks appropriate for Primary Care and aligned with industry benchmarks.
  • Provide expert advice on pay benchmarking, benefits packages and nonfinancial recognition approaches.
  • Ensure reward processes are transparent, equitable and support retention, motivation and capability development.

  Workplace Accreditations & Organisational Standards

  • Lead the organisations work to achieve and maintain workplace and HR accreditation standards.
  • Develop and oversee action plans, engage key stakeholders and drive continuous improvement aligned to accreditation requirements.
  • Embed organisational improvements derived from accreditation frameworks, ensuring standards are sustained and measured.

  HR Systems, Processes & Compliance

  • Work with the Workforce & Recruitment Lead to ensure robust, streamlined HR processes and highquality data management.
  • Lead compliance activities including righttowork verification, safeguarding/DBS checks, mandatory training oversight and HR governance requirements.
  • Produce accurate and timely HR reports for the Board, regulators and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability.
  • Oversee gender pay gap reporting, ensuring conclusions are understood and action plans implemented to support fairness and equity.
  • Hold delegated authority to issue and sign off employment contracts, contractual variations and onboarding documentation, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely processing.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Working conditions

  Frequent, prolonged VDU use

  Time-pressured environment

  High levels of accuracy and attention to detail essential at all times

  Exposure to distressing situations and written material

  Job Description for all G DOC workers

  The job description for all G DOC workers also forms part of your job description.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Duties specific to role

  Strategic Leadership

  • Provide senior, organisationwide leadership on all aspects of people management, organisational development and workforce transformation.
  • Design and deliver a comprehensive People Strategy, with clear focus on recruitment, reward, retention, workforce planning and longterm workforce sustainability.
  • Provide highlevel strategic HR insight, advice and constructive challenge to the Leadership Team, influencing decisionmaking and organisational priorities.
  • Use workforce data, trends and analytics to shape strategic thinking, identify risk, forecast future workforce needs and drive continuous improvement.

  Recruitment & Workforce Planning

  • Work closely with the Workforce & Recruitment Lead to enhance recruitment strategy, candidate experience and talent pipelines, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities.
  • Ensure full compliance with safer recruitment standards, including right to work, DBS, references and professional verification.
  • Lead innovative, evidencebased approaches to attract and retain clinical and nonclinical staff.
  • Lead organisationwide workforce planning, including succession planning, pathway development, role redesign and skills mapping.

  Employee Relations, Change & Policy

  • Lead and oversee complex and highrisk employee relations cases, ensuring fair, consistent and defensible outcomes.
  • Lead the people element of complex change programmes, including restructures, TUPE, service redesign and cultural change interventions.
  • Strengthen organisational capability by coaching and advising managers, embedding bestpractice HR approaches and improving management confidence.
  • Maintain and update HR policies, ensuring compliance with legislation, regulatory standards and broader NHS/Primary Care frameworks.

  Culture, Engagement & Wellbeing

  • Champion a positive, inclusive and valuesled organisational culture, aligned with the organisations mission and strategic direction.
  • Develop and deliver strategies that enhance staff wellbeing, engagement, recognition and organisational cohesion.
  • Coach and support leaders to build highperforming teams, manage performance effectively and uphold behaviours consistent with organisational values.

  Reward & Benefits

  • Lead the review, modernisation and ongoing development of reward frameworks appropriate for Primary Care and aligned with industry benchmarks.
  • Provide expert advice on pay benchmarking, benefits packages and nonfinancial recognition approaches.
  • Ensure reward processes are transparent, equitable and support retention, motivation and capability development.

  Workplace Accreditations & Organisational Standards

  • Lead the organisations work to achieve and maintain workplace and HR accreditation standards.
  • Develop and oversee action plans, engage key stakeholders and drive continuous improvement aligned to accreditation requirements.
  • Embed organisational improvements derived from accreditation frameworks, ensuring standards are sustained and measured.

  HR Systems, Processes & Compliance

  • Work with the Workforce & Recruitment Lead to ensure robust, streamlined HR processes and highquality data management.
  • Lead compliance activities including righttowork verification, safeguarding/DBS checks, mandatory training oversight and HR governance requirements.
  • Produce accurate and timely HR reports for the Board, regulators and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability.
  • Oversee gender pay gap reporting, ensuring conclusions are understood and action plans implemented to support fairness and equity.
  • Hold delegated authority to issue and sign off employment contracts, contractual variations and onboarding documentation, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely processing.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Working conditions

  Frequent, prolonged VDU use

  Time-pressured environment

  High levels of accuracy and attention to detail essential at all times

  Exposure to distressing situations and written material

  Job Description for all G DOC workers

  The job description for all G DOC workers also forms part of your job description.

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant HR generalist experience, ideally in a people focused, values driven environment
  • Excellent knowledge of HR best practice across recruitment, employee relations, organisational development and reward.
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law
  • Experience managing complex and sensitive HR issues, including capability, conduct, grievance and change management
  • Experience partnering with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies aligned to organisational priorities.
  • Understanding of risk management and how HR contributes to safe and effective service delivery
  • Competent in HR systems and digital tools, with the ability to optimise processes for efficiency and accuracy.
  • Developing and implementing HR frameworks, toolkits and guidance for managers

  Desirable

  • Experience in Primary Care, NHS or healthcare settings
  • Experience with accreditation frameworks

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • CIPD Level 5

  Desirable

  • CIPD Level 7

  Skills

  Essential

  • Significant HR generalist experience, ideally in a people focused, values driven environment
  • Excellent knowledge of HR best practice across recruitment, employee relations, organisational development and reward.
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law
  • Experience managing complex and sensitive HR issues, including capability, conduct, grievance and change management
  • Experience partnering with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies aligned to organisational priorities.
  • Understanding of risk management and how HR contributes to safe and effective service delivery
  • Competent in HR systems and digital tools, with the ability to optimise processes for efficiency and accuracy.
  • Developing and implementing HR frameworks, toolkits and guidance for managers
  • Experience in Primary Care, NHS or healthcare settings
  • Experience with accreditation frameworks
  • Skills
  • Highly effective communicator, able to adapt style for senior leaders, clinicians, managers and frontline staff.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and act on workforce data
  • Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with credibility at all levels
  • Strong organisational development awareness, with an ability to support culture change and organisational transformation
  • Skilled in workforce planning, including succession planning, talent development and future workforce modelling.
  • Coaching skills, with the ability to build manager confidence and capability
  • Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, supporting fair and constructive outcomes
  • Excellent IT skills including competent in the use of Office and Outlook
  • Personal Qualities
  • Values driven, demonstrating integrity, compassion and commitment to equitable people practices
  • Discreet and trustworthy, maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality
  • Adaptable, comfortable working in a fast paced, changing Primary Care environment
  • Comfortable working autonomously, making informed decisions within agreed delegations
  • Positive and enabling mindset, contributing to a supportive organisational culture

  Other

  Essential

  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Ability to travel across sites as required

  Person Specification

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant HR generalist experience, ideally in a people focused, values driven environment
  • Excellent knowledge of HR best practice across recruitment, employee relations, organisational development and reward.
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law
  • Experience managing complex and sensitive HR issues, including capability, conduct, grievance and change management
  • Experience partnering with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies aligned to organisational priorities.
  • Understanding of risk management and how HR contributes to safe and effective service delivery
  • Competent in HR systems and digital tools, with the ability to optimise processes for efficiency and accuracy.
  • Developing and implementing HR frameworks, toolkits and guidance for managers

  Desirable

  • Experience in Primary Care, NHS or healthcare settings
  • Experience with accreditation frameworks

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • CIPD Level 5

  Desirable

  • CIPD Level 7

  Skills

  Essential

  • Significant HR generalist experience, ideally in a people focused, values driven environment
  • Excellent knowledge of HR best practice across recruitment, employee relations, organisational development and reward.
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law
  • Experience managing complex and sensitive HR issues, including capability, conduct, grievance and change management
  • Experience partnering with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies aligned to organisational priorities.
  • Understanding of risk management and how HR contributes to safe and effective service delivery
  • Competent in HR systems and digital tools, with the ability to optimise processes for efficiency and accuracy.
  • Developing and implementing HR frameworks, toolkits and guidance for managers
  • Experience in Primary Care, NHS or healthcare settings
  • Experience with accreditation frameworks
  • Skills
  • Highly effective communicator, able to adapt style for senior leaders, clinicians, managers and frontline staff.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and act on workforce data
  • Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with credibility at all levels
  • Strong organisational development awareness, with an ability to support culture change and organisational transformation
  • Skilled in workforce planning, including succession planning, talent development and future workforce modelling.
  • Coaching skills, with the ability to build manager confidence and capability
  • Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, supporting fair and constructive outcomes
  • Excellent IT skills including competent in the use of Office and Outlook
  • Personal Qualities
  • Values driven, demonstrating integrity, compassion and commitment to equitable people practices
  • Discreet and trustworthy, maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality
  • Adaptable, comfortable working in a fast paced, changing Primary Care environment
  • Comfortable working autonomously, making informed decisions within agreed delegations
  • Positive and enabling mindset, contributing to a supportive organisational culture

  Other

  Essential

  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Ability to travel across sites as required

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  G DOC Ltd

  Address

  Quayside House

  Quay Street

  Gloucester

  GL1 2TZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://ghac.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  G DOC Ltd

  Address

  Quayside House

  Quay Street

  Gloucester

  GL1 2TZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://ghac.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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