HR Business Partner

• Act as the professional HR lead for allocated Divisions/Directorates, providing expert advice and guidance on complex workforce issues.
• Support the development and delivery of the Trust's Workforce and OD Strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities.
• Lead on organisational change and service redesign, ensuring compliance with employment law and Trust policy.
• Work in partnership with senior leaders, clinicians and staff-side representatives to deliver effective people solutions.
• Provide leadership and support to HR Business Support teams, ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Lead on the development and implementation of HR policies, ensuring consistency and adherence to best practice.
• Drive improvements in key workforce metrics, including sickness absence, turnover and agency usage.Lead and support complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability and change processes.
• Contribute to organisational development initiatives, including talent management, succession planning and leadership development.

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive

Essential

• Able to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders in collaboration and demonstrating strong project management skills
• Communicating successfully with staff at all levels and dealing with complex and sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy
• Developing, embedding and reviewing policies and procedures
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff
• Demonstrable experience of partnership working and experience of HR management and change implementation in a unionised environment
• Experience of managing service level agreements and external contracts
• Experience of role redesign and job enrichment
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Experience in governance arrangements and escalation processes
• Acute awareness of confidentiality and discretion. Along with tact and sensitivity

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in change management or equivalent experience of managing change within a unionised environment
• An accredited practitioner in recognised, relevant psychometric instruments

Essential

• Experience of working with managers on HR/ workforce related issues
• Working with Trade Unions at a local and regional level including involvement in negotiations
• NHS terms and conditions of service
• Monitoring, analysing and reporting on metrics and measures
• Up to date, in-depth knowledge of employment law, local and national policies and procedures
• Specialist knowledge and understanding of current HR issues including the HR agenda in the NHS and how this supports service provision, performance and improvement.
• Ability to identify complex issues and source innovative solutions
• Ability to negotiate and influence at all levels to deliver anticipated outcomes and affect positive change
• Excellent working knowledge of the Microsoft Office programmes
• Planning, design, delivery and evaluation of management training programmes.
• Knowledge of business planning, project management and risk management, and how those processes are applied to organisational change.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system able to produce, analyse and deliver complex reports in line with workforce requirements
• Working with and influencing stakeholders in a large, multi-disciplinary organisation to improve performance through training and development
• Developing and implementing metrics
• Leadership of large-scale organisational change programmes