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Jane Nicholson

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Director of People at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
📍 United Kingdom

Jane Nicholson is an award-winning, multi-sector HR leader, currently serving as the People Director at Berkshire Healthcare, an outstanding-rated NHS Trust. An alumna of the University of Warwick (MA), she specializes in creating clear people strategies that drive organizational aims through high staff engagement, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Her teams have won multiple prestigious Business Culture Awards, including for innovation in BAME Talent Development and for their work in staff wellbeing and creating a learning culture.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Director of People
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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Priorities

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Staff Engagement
Her Trust consistently achieves the top staff engagement score for all community and mental health trusts in the NHS national staff survey, a point of pride she often shares.
Workplace Culture
She is a public speaker on "Creating a Just & Learning Culture" and her team has won Business Culture Awards for their work in this area.
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Career

Work history

3-2020
Director of People
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
4-2019 - 2-2020
Chief People Officer (interim) Oxford University Hospitals
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11-2018 - 3-2019
EU Exit HR Resilience Director
Cabinet Office
1-2018 - 11-2019
HR Director
Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
10-2015 - 1-2018
Director Talent, Leadership, Engagement and Inclusion
UK Home Office
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Media appearances

New podcast 'Voices of Care' launches – featuring Jane Nicholson, Director of People at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Featured in Home Care Insight
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Education
1998 - 2000
MA
University of Warwick
1985 - 1989
BA
University of Birmingham
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