• Job Description

  Req#: C9321-26-0235?language=en&page=63&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Are you an inspiring recruitment leader with a passion for driving inclusive, high-quality, and future-focused resourcing services?

  As the Head of Resourcing Operations, you will be the Trust's senior lead for recruitment strategy, service delivery, and innovation across both AfC and medical recruitment. You will shape and deliver an exceptional, data-driven, and candidate-centred recruitment function that supports OUH's strategic and operational ambitions.

  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.

  Main duties of the job

  • 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

  About us

  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 and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

  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.

  These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

  Details

  Date posted

  23 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum / pro rata

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  9 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  321-CORP-7808630-B8a

  Job locations

  Oxford University Hospitals

  Cowley - Unipart House

  Oxford

  OX3 9DU

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  See attached JD/PS

  Join us and be at the forefront of delivering an efficient and effective recruitment service that makes a real difference.

  Apply now and become a vital part of our team!

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  See attached JD/PS

  Join us and be at the forefront of delivering an efficient and effective recruitment service that makes a real difference.

  Apply now and become a vital part of our team!

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent work experience.
  • Level 7 CIPD or equivalent experience

  Experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of employment law, Immigration processes and regulations, and Disclosure and Barring checks as they apply to the NHS recruitment process
  • Manage with a high level of pressure on time and resources
  • Previous experience of providing complex specialist employment advice.
  • Is aware of developments within the NHS and can understand the potential impact on services

  Skills

  Essential

  • Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
  • Demonstrates commitment to maintaining and delivering excellent customer service.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent work experience.
  • Level 7 CIPD or equivalent experience

  Experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of employment law, Immigration processes and regulations, and Disclosure and Barring checks as they apply to the NHS recruitment process
  • Manage with a high level of pressure on time and resources
  • Previous experience of providing complex specialist employment advice.
  • Is aware of developments within the NHS and can understand the potential impact on services

  Skills

  Essential

  • Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
  • Demonstrates commitment to maintaining and delivering excellent customer service.

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Oxford University Hospitals

  Cowley - Unipart House

  Oxford

  OX3 9DU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Oxford University Hospitals

  Cowley - Unipart House

  Oxford

  OX3 9DU

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.ouh.nhs.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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