HR Business Partner (8A) Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health trusts in the country providing mental health, specialist learning disability, secure and forensic services for Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex and specialist community child and adolescent mental health services. We care for people of all ages, from children and young people through to older people with conditions such as dementia.

We aim to improve people's lives by providing high quality care and the best possible experience of our services.

We are seeking to recruit a proactive and enthusiastic HR Business Partner to join our Workforce Directorate on a permanent basis. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to deliver joint strategic workforce support to Corporate Support Services and Estates and Facilities with a workforce of circa 1000 WTE employees.

The role is, 37.5 hours per week, working Monday to Friday.

This role will provide strategic workforce advice, contributing to the achievement of Service and Trust objectives with the key emphasis on maintaining Trust values to ensure we deliver better services to patients through a positive working environment

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will require the following skills, experience and abilities:

Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (level 7)

Experience of dealing with complex HR operational and strategic issues.

Experience in aligning business, operational and strategic needs

Experience of having provided strategic HR advice on complex ER cases including restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, ACAS Early Conciliation, grievances, and disciplinaries.

Experience in supporting senior managers and directors at formal hearings and appeals

Ability to coach and guide managers to effective solutions

Ability to align the HR strategy to departmental objectives and business plans

A positive attitude towards change and having personally delivered major change initiatives

Experience in managing and supporting Senior HR Advisors with complex ER cases

Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility and develop effective working relationships

Ability to influence and challenge the senior management team and leadership, to support the delivery of people plans and service delivery objectives

Ability to work collaboratively as part of the Employee Relations team

Ability to lead on corporate HR projects

About us

In return we offer:

Occupational Health

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Pension Scheme

Family Friendly

Staff Discounts and Benefits

Staff Networks

BME/ BAME staff networks

Training

Flexible Working

Cycle Scheme

Discount Car Scheme

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role will provide strategic workforce advice, contributing to the achievement of Service and Trust objectives with the key emphasis on maintainingTrust values to ensure we deliver better services to patients through a positive working environment.

Please see attached job description for full details on job description and main job responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters level or equivalent experience gained through degree and professional HR Qualifications
• CIPD Registration

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• In-depth experience of Human Resources Management (HRM)

Desirable

• Experience of HR Business Partnering in a complex organisational environment
• Lived experience of mental health issues

Communication/Relationship skills:

Essential

• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
• Communicates very complex/sensitive information where barriers to acceptance may cause a hostile and emotive atmosphere.

Analytical & Judgement skills

Essential

• Analyses a range of very complex employment situations which require deciding on the way forward where no precedent exist or options conflict

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Portland House

Worthing

BN11 1HS

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354-CO-21507