Vince Hislop Dip PM, Chartered FCIPD, FCMI's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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A senior director with significant Operations and HR experience who has covered a range of responsibilities, including HR, Finance, Procurement, Vehicle Fleet, ICT, Estates and Facilities Management, Corporate Communications, Corporate Development and Legal Services. Extensive public sector and outsourced services provider experience with key strengths in change management, business strategy alignment, realising continuous improvement, and collaborative working with partner agencies. Possesses exceptional skills in the HR arena, particularly in employment relations and law, reorganisations, and discipline and grievance handling in large and complex workforce situations. An innovative, supportive and pragmatic team player, with a robust and rigorous approach to the achievement of organisational goals.Interim Director of Corporate Services @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Director and Principal @ Management consulting: advisor to industry on Police Service resources portfolio matters, including national uniform clothing and body armour. People management consulting: employment relations and employment law and practice; reorganisations, redundancy, severance; discipline, grievance and appeal handling; bespoke employment contracts and terms and conditions of employment; employment contract variation; managing complex/two-tier workforce situations; etc. Interim management: human resource management; business support portfolio; change management; business strategy alignment; continuous improvement; collaborative working. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Associate @ From March 2015 to May 2015 (3 months) Consultant Subject Matter Expert @ From November 2014 to March 2015 (5 months) Assistant Chief Officer/Director of Corporate Services @ Executive level responsibility for business support services: Organisational Development (HR, L&D, H&S, OH and Continuous Improvement); Performance and Planning; Information Management; Estates and Facilities Management; ICT; Procurement; Vehicle Fleet; and Legal Services. From April 2007 to June 2014 (7 years 3 months) ACPO/National Policing Lead for Police Uniform @ •ACPO Lead (latterly called National Policing Lead) for Police Uniform from 2008 until leaving the Police Service in June 2014; •SRO for the National Uniform Managed Service (NUMS) programme; •Chair of the National Police Uniform Working Group/Specification Development; •A member of the Home Office Collaborative Police Procurement Programme Board (latterly called Strategic Police Procurement Board); •A member of the ACPO Body Armour Sub-Group; and •Chief officer lead for uniform for Beds, Cambs and Herts police forces and chair of their Combined Uniform and Equipment Group. As well as chairing the Project Board for NUMS, I took the original report to gain support for it to a meeting of the Chief Constables’ Council, and a subsequent report, and wrote the letter to all chief constables in September 2012 seeking individual force commitment to it, which resulted in a 47 force/organisation potential sign-up. I have spoken on police uniform at various fora, including the Police Federation’s Health and Safety Representatives’ National Conference and the 2013 Workwear and Corporate Clothing Showing. From 2008 to 2014 (6 years) Director of Human Resources @ Achievements • Addressed HR and Training Departments’ cultural and procedural issues, to improve performance and outputs, through experience and a flexible and pragmatic approach to achieve the required change. • Turned round a poor assessment rating by HMIC of HR and Training functions, reviewing policies, etc. often against opposition. Demonstrated listening skills and determination to deal with difficult issues, as well as exceptional HR technical knowledge. • Provided leadership, personal input and decision-making into a series of grievances, ET issues, senior personnel challenges and outstanding issues with staff representative bodies, all of which had their genesis prior to joining. • Introduced greater flexibility, e.g., to recruitment and redundancy processes, to change HR function from organisationally disabling to value-adding. • Introduced a simple and sensible HR Strategy which got to the heart of the Force’s short to medium-term needs. From February 2005 to March 2007 (2 years 2 months) Principal Consultant @ Developed HBS business through consulting activity with clients. Placed with Northamptonshire County Council throughout 2003 as its Interim Head of Human Resources, establishing a significant and "a first", interim placement and revenue opportunity for HBS. From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Head of Human Resource Services @ Head of Human Resource Services Led delivery of the HR operations service and HR work programme throughout Bedfordshire County Council, including schools (circa 13,000 employees and 50 HR staff). Contributed significantly to HR strategy and policy. Achievements • Consolidated HR function from its five devolved departmental locations, achieving required 10% revenue budget savings and bringing together of very different cultures. • Contributed significantly to seamless transfer of the 600 Council employees in-scope to HBS, its long-term Strategic Partner. • Led hands on and by example the robust management of a significant number of inherited long-term, poorly managed employee relations cases. From June 1999 to December 2002 (3 years 7 months) General Manager (Commercial Services and Facilities Management) @ Led and directed the Council's direct service organisations (including high public interest services like school meals and highway maintenance), other trading and facilities management services, and corporate facilities. Responsible for £20M "above the line" annual revenue budget with requirement to achieve statutorily prescribed rate of return (profit). Achievements • Virtually single-handedly outsourced 1600 employees to eight different transferee organisations via a variety of externalisation vehicles. • Project managed and negotiated major, ground breaking external contracts, e.g., the trade sale of highway and vehicle maintenance DSOs to the private sector. • Appointed to chief officer post at age 28. • Successfully responded to several Local Government Act 1988 s.13 Notices and s.14 Directions from the Secretary of State. • Turned round or otherwise successfully resolved the five of the nine services taken over that were loss making. From January 1996 to May 1999 (3 years 5 months) Assistant Director (Personnel), Commercial Services @ Managed the autonomous HR function, including health and safety and training, for a diverse workforce of over 2,500 employees (other Council departments did not gain autonomy for their HR functions until 1997). Achievements • Appointed as a senior manager at age 23. • Developed from green field and implemented Council's first ever entirely local pay, terms and conditions for 1300 employees, contributing significantly to 40% pay bill saving. • Successfully resisted over 150 Industrial Tribunal applications through robust leadership of change management processes. • Led major organisational change, including public to public, public to private and private to public employee transfers in pre and formative TUPE days. From July 1992 to December 1995 (3 years 6 months) Diploma in Personnel Management/Grad IPM, HRM @ Diploma in Personnel Management, Leicester Polytechnic, Grad IPM, Licentiate of Leicester Polytech' From 1987 to 1988 4 'A' Levels, 8 'O' Levels @ Abbey Middle/John Bunyan Upper From 1977 to 1986 Ashridge Leadership Process @ Ashridge Business School From 2010 to 2010 Directing Safely @ IOSHCritical Incident Command 3 - Gold Command @ NPIANOS AA1 and AA2 - Promote Equality and Value Diversity @ Bedfordshire PoliceHuman Resource Strategy @ Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management Vince Hislop Dip PM, Chartered FCIPD, FCMI is skilled in: Organizational Development, Employee Relations, Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Policy, Performance Management, Change Management, Employment Law, Management Development, Coaching, Talent Management, HR Policies, Strategy, Public Sector, Personnel Management, Management