The Children and Families Division are seeking a highly experienced, resilient and motivated HR Business Partner to join their complex and fast paced Division.

The post holder will be the lead focal point for the H Team and operational managers within the Children and Families Division, facilitating effective delivery of health services via provision of a comprehensive HR service, including workforce planning, complex casework and organisational change programmes. This post will be responsible for the delivery of the operational HR function within the Children and Families Division as well as supporting the strategic people and culture agenda, including workforce availability, recruitment and retention, engagement and wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion. The successful candidate will be CIPD qualified and will have substantial experience of delivering strategic level HR advice to senior managers and directors in a large, complex organisation and significant experience of leading on and dealing with organisational change and complex employee relations issues.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support embedding a Just and Learning Culture, as part of the Trust's management of conduct within its Disciplinary Policy promoting the Trust's values and, in particular, its Equality and Inclusion agenda. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge of operational HR within the NHS, including the management of complex casework and organisational change providing best practice advice and experience of providing advice to a Divisional group and infrastructure / Divisional Management Board on the full range of HR issues.

The role includes day to day leadership and management and development of the HR Team and delivering a comprehensive HR service to a complex Division with specific recruitment and retention challenges. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent and achieved CIPD, have a proven track record of delivering on targets, work well under pressure, be highly organised, have excellent communication skills and have significant competence in analysing and presenting data as part of workforce data forums. The candidate will be able to operate in an environment of rapid change and conflicting priorities and, , have previous NHS experience. Expert knowledge of the full range of HR policies and procedures and excellent working knowledge of employment legislation is essential.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

The Children and Families Division employs around 1,200 dedicated staff, to provide a wide range of universal and specialist services for the children, young people and families of Birmingham in homes, schools and clinics across the region. Every child, from pre-birth to five years old, is supported by a health visitor and teams from our Birmingham Forward Steps service. Then, our mainstream and specialist school nurses continue to provide various services, right up until the age of 25 in some cases. For children with additional complex developmental or support needs, specialist services are provided in families' homes, clinics and child development centres across the city. The Division provides a wide range of services, both face-to-face and virtually, including therapies, school-aged immunisations, health assessments, respite and end-of-life care, SEND assessments and support, plus many others

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Master's degree or have equivalent professional experience and development as detailed below
• Post-graduate qualification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, or actively working towards this qualification with an equivalent level of experience at a senior Human Resource
• Management Qualification

Skills

Essential

• Expert knowledge of the full range of Human Resource policies and management procedures, statutory legislation and upcoming legislative changes
• Detailed knowledge of relevant NHS Policy and guidelines

Experience

Essential

• Significant management/senior experience of leading an organisation through service redesign (inc. restructures, mergers, TUPE transfers) both at a departmental, organisation level and cross organisational level
• Substantial experience of delivering strategic level advice and guidance to senior managers and Directors, advising on complex employee relation issues, full range of casework experience, investigations, panels and employment tribunal preparation, delivering change management projects and carrying out investigations
• Developing and delivering management training and presentations
• Manipulating and analysing Human Resource data and presenting it as accessible workforce information
• Significant and demonstrable experience of negotiating with Trade Unions/other employee bodies on large scale change management issues

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Priestley Wharf

Holt Street

Birmingham

B7 4BN

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