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HR Business Partner

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Peterborough, PE3 9GZView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368

Contract

Secondment

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

14 October 2026

13 days left

Job description

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 bas...

  • 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

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

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

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

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

1 October 2026

Last checked

1 October 2026

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About the employer

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North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

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