Bob Champion – Chief People Officer

Bob Champion is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and has worked in and around the NHS for around 49 years, starting as a hospital porter in Birmingham,  before training as an operating department assistant working in theatres.

His extensive experience includes almost 20 years working across the West Midlands and North Yorkshire Ambulance Services, where he was one of the first operational paramedics and finally Assistant Director of Personnel with the North Yorkshire Service, where Bob studied for his HR degree. Since the late 1990’s, Bob has led human resources and organisational development functions at or around board level in a range of NHS organisations, in substantive, consultancy and interim roles.

Bob is passionate about employee engagement, health and wellbeing, and partnership working with staff side colleagues, alongside equality and diversity, having chaired the National Equalities Forum in a previous role.