Diane Thomas

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ABOUT DIANE THOMAS

I currently work in partnership with my two business areas at the University of Manchester with People and OD responsibility for the Directorate for the Student Experience and Directorate of Legal Affairs within Professional Services to establish People and OD strategies and plans to support the Senior Leadership team, Department Heads and Senior Managers to achieve its business objectives, improve service delivery and drive performance in line with the University of Manchester strategic goals. I meet with my Director on a monthly basis and attend Leadership Team meetings where I share strategic focussed people-related communications and legislative changes that senior leaders need to be aware of that could affect their staff and wider departments.Previously worked in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities and supported the Head of School and his Senior Academic Leadership team to provide specialist HR advice in a sometimes complex and challenging academic arena. In previous roles within Local Government spanning 30+ years, I worked an HRBP as part of a HR Business Partnering teams at the West Midlands Combined Authority, including Transport for West Midlands, the Midland Metro Alliance and Nacro for a period spanning over 6 years, in addition to having over 25 years as a HR Generalist at Birmingham City Council, Sandwell Council and Wolverhampton City Council. This has included working on people agendas which included workforce planning to map out the requirements for the future operating model for the transportation infrastructure of the West Midlands, change programmes which have included restructures resulting in ring-fencing role, assimilating staff, voluntary and compulsory redundancy, redeployment and retraining of staff, reviewing of policies and procedures to ensure that they are fit for purpose and in line with current employment law legislation and ACAS guidelines. Management of organisational restructures and service redesigns, including business cases analysis, attendance at Trade Union consultation meetings, staff briefing sessions, co-ordination of assimilation and selection processes and associated alternative selection methods.