HR Business Partner

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR professional to join us as an HR Business Partner on a six-month fixed-term or secondment basis.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced HR professional who can quickly step into the role and make an immediate contribution. You will need strong operational HR experience, sound judgement and the confidence to work with senior leaders in a fast-paced environment. We also welcome applications from experienced HR professionals looking to take the next step in their career through an acting-up or secondment opportunity.

You will support one of our Clinical Divisions, working closely with senior leaders to provide expert, pragmatic HR advice and support. You will play a key role in supporting workforce performance, staff experience and the delivery of safe, effective patient care.

The post is available for six months to provide additional short-term capacity within the HR Business Partnering service.

This post is offered as a fixed-term contract or secondment opportunity.

Main duties of the job

• You will support one of our Clinical Divisions
• Provide advice and guidance on complex employee relations cases (performance, conduct, sickness, behaviours)
• Support delivery of workforce plans, service change, and transformation programmes
• Coach and develop managers to build confidence and capability in people management
• Ensure timely management of cases to reduce risk and improve outcomes
• Work collaboratively with HR colleagues to provide a consistent and high-quality service

About us

For further information regarding this role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For duties and responsibilities please refer to the job description attached or contact us for an informal discussion.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For duties and responsibilities please refer to the job description attached or contact us for an informal discussion.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Chartered Member of the CIPD

Experience

Essential

• Extensive HR experience of working with senior managers, supporting and resolving complex people issues
• Experience of working collaboratively with all stakeholders to deliver aims and objectives through a coaching and consultancy approach, supporting and developing the leadership and management capabilities of senior staff throughout the organisation

Desirable

• Understanding of the workforce agenda in the health sector

Knowledge

Essential

• Strong knowledge of best practice HR business partnering initiatives, stakeholder management and influencing strategies with a proven ability to turn these innovative ideas into working models.
• Strong business acumen to support HR strategy development and delivery
• Strong knowledge of people and HR planning methods and interventions
• Strong understanding of relevant employment legislation and the impact of future legislative changes
• Strong knowledge of relationship management, internal service level agreements and implementation of key performance indicators
• An understanding of coaching methods and approaches to guide senior leaders, particularly within a large change agenda environment

Key Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• Team Leadership - Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance
• Customer Focused - Builds and manages internal and external stakeholder relationships and exceeds customer expectations
• Business Aware - Demonstrates a clear understanding of the current market environment including awareness of all opportunities and threats to new and existing business / income. Seeks, evaluates and uses information from a wide variety of internal and external sources in order to proactively develop the business and improve performance.
• Results Orientated - Evaluates situations, identifies existing challenges and future opportunities for growth, sets goals, plans, delivers and measures outcomes. Has the will, ambition and tenacity to make things happen and therefore deliver outstanding business performance.
• Team worker - Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members.
• Good Communicator - Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood.
• Knowledge Sharing - Seeks, applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve business performance.
• Personal Development - Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Chartered Member of the CIPD

Experience

Essential

• Extensive HR experience of working with senior managers, supporting and resolving complex people issues
• Experience of working collaboratively with all stakeholders to deliver aims and objectives through a coaching and consultancy approach, supporting and developing the leadership and management capabilities of senior staff throughout the organisation

Desirable

• Understanding of the workforce agenda in the health sector

Knowledge

Essential

• Strong knowledge of best practice HR business partnering initiatives, stakeholder management and influencing strategies with a proven ability to turn these innovative ideas into working models.
• Strong business acumen to support HR strategy development and delivery
• Strong knowledge of people and HR planning methods and interventions
• Strong understanding of relevant employment legislation and the impact of future legislative changes
• Strong knowledge of relationship management, internal service level agreements and implementation of key performance indicators
• An understanding of coaching methods and approaches to guide senior leaders, particularly within a large change agenda environment

Key Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• Team Leadership - Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance
• Customer Focused - Builds and manages internal and external stakeholder relationships and exceeds customer expectations
• Business Aware - Demonstrates a clear understanding of the current market environment including awareness of all opportunities and threats to new and existing business / income. Seeks, evaluates and uses information from a wide variety of internal and external sources in order to proactively develop the business and improve performance.
• Results Orientated - Evaluates situations, identifies existing challenges and future opportunities for growth, sets goals, plans, delivers and measures outcomes. Has the will, ambition and tenacity to make things happen and therefore deliver outstanding business performance.
• Team worker - Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members.
• Good Communicator - Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood.
• Knowledge Sharing - Seeks, applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve business performance.
• Personal Development - Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Cross Site Working

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

United Kingdom

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