HR Business Partner

Job description

Job summary

Join Our Expanding HR Team: HR Business Partners (Full time and Part time roles)

Locations: Oxford & Trust sites (Hybrid working with onsite presence at Littlemore, Oxford and at Trust meetings)

As part of our continued investment in strengthening HR support across the organisation, we are expanding our team and seeking to recruit two experienced, senior HR Business Partners.

In these pivotal roles, you will act as a trusted advisor to your assigned directorates and service groups. Working collaboratively alongside Talent Acquisition, Organisational Development, and the wider HR function, you will design and deliver forward thinking workforce strategies aligned directly with operational service priorities.

Because of the high touch, partnering nature of these positions, postholders will spread their working hours across4 to 5 days per week, maintaining the flexibility required to support service needs and attend key meetings.We support a flexible hybrid working model, blending work from home with meaningful onsite presence at our Littlemore, Oxford location and across our Trust sites to stay connected with the services you support.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities include -

• Strategic Partnership: Build strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders to align workforce strategies with directorate goals.
• Employee Relations: Maintain positive, collaborative working relationships with trade unions and colleagues.
• Problem Solving & Solution Design: Identify complex workforce challenges within services and develop targeted, high impact solutions.
• Strategic Execution: Deliver quality strategic and operational support across workforce planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing, and staff engagement.
• Initiative Leadership: Contribute to trust wide workforce projects, change management programmes, and continuous improvement activities.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full details of the role are included in the job description. Please ensure that you consider the information outlined in the essential and desirable criteria listed on the advert and tailor your supporting statement to these requirements.

Candidates should be educated to Masters level in HR Management (or hold equivalent senior experience) alongside specialist, up-to-date knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, and complex workforce issues such as planning and engagement.

You will bring a proven track record in a senior HR role within a complex organisation, with demonstrated experience leading change management and project management initiatives while collaborating effectively across multi disciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will combine a strategic and tactical mindset with the ability to manage competing demands under pressure, responding to urgent situations with calm, logical empathy. A quality-focused, flexible approach to problem-solving is essential, as is access to your own car or suitable alternative transport for business travel across Trust locations.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Full details of the role are included in the job description. Please ensure that you consider the information outlined in the essential and desirable criteria listed on the advert and tailor your supporting statement to these requirements.

Candidates should be educated to Masters level in HR Management (or hold equivalent senior experience) alongside specialist, up-to-date knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, and complex workforce issues such as planning and engagement.

You will bring a proven track record in a senior HR role within a complex organisation, with demonstrated experience leading change management and project management initiatives while collaborating effectively across multi disciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will combine a strategic and tactical mindset with the ability to manage competing demands under pressure, responding to urgent situations with calm, logical empathy. A quality-focused, flexible approach to problem-solving is essential, as is access to your own car or suitable alternative transport for business travel across Trust locations.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of change management
• Experience of working within a HR multi-disciplinary team, working with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of managing projects.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge

personal qualities

Essential

• Access to own car or alternative travel for business use

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge about key operational and strategic issues relating to workforce intelligence and planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing and/or staff engagement and experience
• Ability to respond to urgent situations in a calm, empathetic and logical manager and manage stressful situations
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands

Person Specification
Experience

Essential

• Experience of change management
• Experience of working within a HR multi-disciplinary team, working with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of managing projects.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge

personal qualities

Essential

• Access to own car or alternative travel for business use

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge about key operational and strategic issues relating to workforce intelligence and planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing and/or staff engagement and experience
• Ability to respond to urgent situations in a calm, empathetic and logical manager and manage stressful situations
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands

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

Oxford Health NHS Trust
Address

Littlemore Mental Health Centre

Sandford Road

Oxford

OX4 4XN

United Kingdom

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