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HR Business Partner

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Dorset / Somerset, BH7 7DWView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

12 November 2026

14 days left

Job description

Join HealthSet and help shape the workforce behind a major digital transformation This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior HR profess...

As the HealthSet HR Business Partner, you will provide strategic HR leadership across workforce planning, recruitment and retention, organisational development, employee engagement, leadership development, workforce transformation, organisational design and workforce analytics.

Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide expert advice, challenge and support to develop workforce solutions that enable the successful delivery of programme objectives.

A key element of the role is working across organisational boundaries. You will build strong relationships across the four partner Trusts and collaborate with HR and People teams to ensure a consistent and effective workforce approach.

You will also provide line management and support to the HealthSet Workforce Lead and HealthSet Workforce Coordinator, helping to coordinate workforce activity and priorities across the programme.

You will be an experienced HR professional with a strong background in workforce strategy, organisational development and change management. You will have experience influencing senior stakeholders, delivering workforce initiatives and supporting service transformation.

You will be skilled at building trusted relationships, working across organisations and using workforce information to support decision-making. Knowledge of the NHS workforce agenda is essential.

This is a highly visible partnership role requiring travel across the HealthSet partner Trusts and an on-site presence.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Healthsetis a joint programme across four trusts in Dorset and Somerset to deliver a shared electronic health record (EHR) for acute, community and mental health services, working with our system provider, Epic. This once-in-a-generation programme will transform how information is recorded,sharedand accessed, enabling colleagues to spend less time working around systems and more time caring.

Our teams deliver safe, compassionate care every day, but we still rely on multiple systems, separaterecordsand paper processes. This can mean patients repeating their story and colleagues spending valuable time duplicating work or managing gaps in information. For our digital teams, this means managing multiple legacy systems and data sources to support users to deliver services.

Healthsetis our shared response. By introducing one EHR across our organisations, we will support morejoined-upworking, saferdecision-makingand better use of information, freeing up more time for care.

This ambitious programme will fundamentally change how health and care is delivered across Dorset and Somerset in a way that is clinically and financially sustainable. We will be guided by doing the right thing for our patients, carers,peopleand communities, while creating a working environment that better supports our colleagues.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
  • Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable: - Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Coaching qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Substantial generalist and senior HR experience in advising senior managers on best practice HR approaches, particularly relating to change management.
  • Experience in successful leading and delivering OD and/or workforce projects
  • Experience in developing and implementing OD and Workforce strategy.
  • Experience in managing complex and sensitive employment relations issues.

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrable knowledge of current thinking on good HR practice on all aspects of HR management.
  • Knowledge of current workforce and HR agenda in the NHS
  • Ability to relate to managers, understanding different education, approaches, styles and expertise and utilise this knowledge to develop effective relationship and cooperative ways of working to achieve the Trust's aim
  • Ability to work effectively and be comfortable with achieving through influence and leadership.

Desirable: - Project Management skills

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

29 October 2026

Last checked

29 October 2026

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About the employer

UHD
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

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