Human Resources Business Partner
- Employer
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Huddersfield
- Salary
- £53,755 to £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Closing date
- 10 Nov 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part Time
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Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a flexible working opportunity that allows you to make a real impact? Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is seeking a part-time HR Business Partner (HRBP) to join our team within the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division on a job-share basis, working 2 days per week alongside the current HRBP.
As the HRBP for the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division, you will provide senior-level Workforce and Organisational Development support, working closely with divisional leaders to align HR strategies with key service delivery objectives. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a part-time capacity while still contributing significantly to the Trust's goals. You will partner with the Senior Management Team and lead a dedicated HR team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality HR services that support workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, and staff engagement. You will share responsibilities with the current HRBP, ensuring a seamless and consistent HR service across the Division
Main duties of the job
Why Join Us?
CHFT is nationally recognised for its innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional care. The Trust has received national recognition been highlighted in several high-profile platforms, including:
Join a forward-thinking, high-performing trust where your work will have a genuine impact on both staff and patient outcomes.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care medical surgical maternity gynaecology critical care children's and young people's services end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
What Were Looking For:
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced HR leader who excels in collaboration and can effectively manage key HR functions in a job-share arrangement. You will bring experience from a senior HR role, ideally within the NHS or a similar large, complex organisation.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
Desirable
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HRI
Huddersfield
HD3 3EB
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
372-SURG1874
As the HRBP for the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division, you will provide senior-level Workforce and Organisational Development support, working closely with divisional leaders to align HR strategies with key service delivery objectives. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a part-time capacity while still contributing significantly to the Trust's goals. You will partner with the Senior Management Team and lead a dedicated HR team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality HR services that support workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, and staff engagement. You will share responsibilities with the current HRBP, ensuring a seamless and consistent HR service across the Division
Main duties of the job
Why Join Us?
CHFT is nationally recognised for its innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional care. The Trust has received national recognition been highlighted in several high-profile platforms, including:
- Value for Money Excellence: Recognised by NHS Providers for our outstanding ability to deliver value for money while ensuring high-quality patient care (Providers Deliver: Achieving value for money (nhsproviders.org))
- Tackling NHS Waiting Lists: Featured in Sky News for our success in significantly reducing waiting lists, setting a benchmark for other NHS trusts across the country (This NHS trust got a grip of its waiting list - can others around the country do the same? | UK News | Sky News)
- Health Service Award for Performance Recovery (2023): Proudly shortlisted for this prestigious award, showcasing CHFT's journey to tackle its pandemic elective waiting lists.
Join a forward-thinking, high-performing trust where your work will have a genuine impact on both staff and patient outcomes.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care medical surgical maternity gynaecology critical care children's and young people's services end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop strong business relationships with divisional leaders and managers to implement workforce plans and HR strategies aligned with the Division's objectives.
- Lead, in partnership with the job-share HRBP, a dedicated HR team in the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division.
- Provide expert advice on complex HR issues, including employee relations, employment law, and workforce development.
- Oversee HR metrics, such as sickness absence, recruitment, and agency spend, to support service efficiency.
- Champion Trust values and best practices, promoting collaboration and innovation across HR functions.
What Were Looking For:
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced HR leader who excels in collaboration and can effectively manage key HR functions in a job-share arrangement. You will bring experience from a senior HR role, ideally within the NHS or a similar large, complex organisation.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Educated to post graduate degree level in a HR related field or able to demonstrate appropriate equivalent experience
- MCIPD qualified or equivalent level management qualification
- Ability to demonstrate completion of leadership courses and have relevant experience working at a senior level providing HR advice
Desirable
- Advanced Microsoft Office qualification in Excel / Access
- Accredited coach/mentor
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Ability to critically analyse complex data sets
- Team player
- Ability to effectively manage own working time and proven track record of achieving deadlines
- Ability to consider HR Service implications of putting patients first in application of HR practice
- Respectful to patients, colleagues and all internal and external contacts
- To be able to demonstrate ownership for own actions and areas of responsibility
- To be able to demonstrate unity with all colleagues
- To have a proven track record of delivery on objectives
- Facilitation skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to give difficult feedback and challenging perceptions at all levels
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior HR role in a large diverse organisation including experience of HR service delivery and performance management
- Clear understanding of the major issues affecting the NHS HR agenda
- Experience of contributing to strategy development
- Experience of delivering coaching / training to managers
- Significant experience / knowledge of employment law and its application in employment practice
- Experience of leading the management of change
- Experience of negotiating policy development / T& C's with trade union reps, full time officers
- Demonstrable evidence of continuous development
- Able to build credibility quickly and to work with all grades of staff within the Trust
- Evidence of IT training / short courses / demonstrable experience
- Willingness to undertake any further training/ development as identified in annual appraisal
Desirable
- Experience of working in a highly unionised environment
- Experience of large scale project management
- Experience of identification and management of workforce efficiencies
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the NHS Health & Wellbeing Agenda
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the Workforce Equality and Diversity Agenda
- OD experience
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HRI
Huddersfield
HD3 3EB
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
372-SURG1874
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