As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

We are recruiting for a Head HR and Education to lead the HR and Education Team to deliver the People Strategy within the organisation, whilst being a proactive member of the Executive Management Team.

Our Head of HR and Education will be a people professional with senior generalist experience who will provide strategic leadership to enable the workforce to deliver excellent palliative care in east Kent.

The post holder will also be providing operational leadership to our People activities including recruitment and payroll services with a focus on customer experience at the forefront.

Our Head HR and Education will have ER expertise which can be shared with our HR Business Partners within their dedicated business units to drive best practice across our people management processes.

The successful candidate will lead our Education and Training offerings, building a culture of learning across the organisation and aligning talent management activities with HR Business Partners as well as ensuring training compliance as a registered healthcare organisation.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our ‘CODE’, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate: We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open: We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic: We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered: We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other Benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health & Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

•Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments

•Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning

•Continous service in NHS Pension scheme should you meet the eligible criteria

• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause

• A sense of wellbeing

• A good work-life balance

• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links

• Blue Light Card

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!