Job summary
We have a new Senior People Partner opportunity and are seeking applications from experienced people-centred leaders who will be based at Heartlands Hospital.
Reporting into the Associate Director of People for the hospital site and in conjunction with the Hospital Executive team, you will ensure we drive the short and longer-term people priorities to support the Trust's ambition as well as providing attention to local priorities, challenges and opportunities in an aim to create the best and safest place to work.
You will support the development of people strategies, address key people priorities with a person centred, solutions focussed approach. You will enable movement in employee experience and engagement, workforce planning and development, succession planning, attraction, recruitment and retention; workforce design and change; culture and inclusion and employee relations.
You will live our values of being kind, connected and bold, and be inclusive, fair and compassionate.
Previous NHS experience would be desirable but not essential.
If you believe we have detailed your next career move, and you share our passion we'd welcome your application.
This is a hybrid role that combines remote working with on-site presence.
You can contact Lucretia De Veer, Associate Director of People, Heartlands Hospital by emailing askus@uhb.nhs.uk for informal discussion.
Interviews to be held in person at Heartlands Hospital on 30 June 2025.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will support a single site within UHB in maximising the contribution of the workforce to meet organisational objectives. Key duties will include:
*Supporting management teams in designated areas with the development of their people strategies, addressing key people priorities with a person centred, solutions focussed approach.
* To lead and support the Associate People Director on the local delivery of the People strategy and priorities.
* To provide accurate and timely advice, guidance and support on a range of workforce issues, working with colleagues to deliver effective and sustained solutions.
* To provide strategic leadership to the People Team aligned to the key people priorities on preventative actions to address key workforce challenges across the Trust, enabling improvement in staff experience; workforce planning and development; attraction, recruitment and retention; workforce design and change; culture and inclusion and employee relations.
*To support highly complex/ sensitive investigations, including MHPS, Disciplinary, Grievance and bullying and harassment, complex capability issues, enabling positive changes to behaviours, organisational learning and embedding a zero-tolerance approach to bullying, harassment and discrimination.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Graduate CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and development) or equivalent post graduate Level 7 qualification/training/experience to Masters level or equivalent
- *Evidence of continuous professional development
- *Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent experience
Desirable
- * Leadership and Management
- * Coaching and Mentoring
- * Mediation
Experience
Essential
- * Significant recent operational HR experience including leadership and management.
- * Experience of leading the workforce elements of local change and transformation programmes, including advising managers on complex change processes such as restructuring, redundancy and TUPE.
- * Experience in applying a business partner approach -- working with managers to develop services and applying HR expertise to provide solutions to complex people issues, including absence management, organisational change, recruitment and retention, inclusion and diversity and workforce planning.
- * Experience of undertaking complex investigations into MHPS, disciplinary, grievance and bullying and harassment, including supporting formal panel hearings.
- * Experience of working in partnership with Trade Unions towards shared goals with evidence of achieving organisational outcomes.
- * Experience of developing and implementing HR policies and procedures as well as people management training
- * Experience in promoting the equality and diversity agenda - able to evidence achievements in relation to organisational equality and diversity objectives
- * Experience of advising managers on complex change processes such as restructuring, redundancy and TUPE.
- * Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports.
- * Ability to interpret and apply Terms and Conditions of Employment
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Strongly developed communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with fully developed persuasive, negotiating and influencing skills.
- * Analytical and judgement skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex situations.
- * Ability to develop and maintaining good working relationships with stakeholders.
- * Ability to work autonomously, without direct supervision and as part of a team.
- * Good presentation and report writing skills.
- * Good IT skills (to includes as a minimum: Word Excel, PowerPoint, HR databases)
- * Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines, work independently and demonstrate good diary management.
- * Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
- * Evidence of improving working practices.
- * Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice
- * Evidence of recent CPD
- * Able to concentrate with frequent interruptions and where work is unpredictable
- * Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances, frequently when imparting information e.g., discipline, sickness
- * The ability to work on own initiative, responding to immediate requests.
- * Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
- * Proactive and self-motivated.
- * Ability to work across all Trust sites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Graduate CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and development) or equivalent post graduate Level 7 qualification/training/experience to Masters level or equivalent
- *Evidence of continuous professional development
- *Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent experience
Desirable
- * Leadership and Management
- * Coaching and Mentoring
- * Mediation
Experience
Essential
- * Significant recent operational HR experience including leadership and management.
- * Experience of leading the workforce elements of local change and transformation programmes, including advising managers on complex change processes such as restructuring, redundancy and TUPE.
- * Experience in applying a business partner approach -- working with managers to develop services and applying HR expertise to provide solutions to complex people issues, including absence management, organisational change, recruitment and retention, inclusion and diversity and workforce planning.
- * Experience of undertaking complex investigations into MHPS, disciplinary, grievance and bullying and harassment, including supporting formal panel hearings.
- * Experience of working in partnership with Trade Unions towards shared goals with evidence of achieving organisational outcomes.
- * Experience of developing and implementing HR policies and procedures as well as people management training
- * Experience in promoting the equality and diversity agenda - able to evidence achievements in relation to organisational equality and diversity objectives
- * Experience of advising managers on complex change processes such as restructuring, redundancy and TUPE.
- * Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports.
- * Ability to interpret and apply Terms and Conditions of Employment
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Strongly developed communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with fully developed persuasive, negotiating and influencing skills.
- * Analytical and judgement skills with the ability to analyse and interpret complex situations.
- * Ability to develop and maintaining good working relationships with stakeholders.
- * Ability to work autonomously, without direct supervision and as part of a team.
- * Good presentation and report writing skills.
- * Good IT skills (to includes as a minimum: Word Excel, PowerPoint, HR databases)
- * Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines, work independently and demonstrate good diary management.
- * Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
- * Evidence of improving working practices.
- * Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice
- * Evidence of recent CPD
- * Able to concentrate with frequent interruptions and where work is unpredictable
- * Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances, frequently when imparting information e.g., discipline, sickness
- * The ability to work on own initiative, responding to immediate requests.
- * Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
- * Proactive and self-motivated.
- * Ability to work across all Trust sites.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
