Job summary
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic HR professional to join our team as a Strategic Workforce Business Partner. This is a pivotal role for a credible leader who understands the direct link between effective workforce planning and delivering high-quality patient care.
You will provide expert advice at a senior level, leading on workforce strategies that have organisation-wide impact. With a strong background in the NHS or a similarly complex environment, you will have a proven ability to deliver complex projects, influence senior leaders, and work collaboratively with trade unions. You'll be experienced in workforce planning, pay and reward, employment law, and have the ability to coach and develop managers in employee relations, organisational change and good people management.
The successful candidate must hold a Postgraduate Diploma in a relevant people management qualification, be a Chartered Member of the CIPD, and demonstrate a strong track record of continuing professional development.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our workforce and directly contribute to improved patient outcomes through compassionate, strategic leadership.
Apply now to make a meaningful impact.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the role profile attached which includes the main duties for this position Strategic Workforce Business Partner.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management or equivalent HR or OD management qualification. Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior workforce experience in advising senior managers on best practice HR approaches, particularly relating to change management.
- Working with Trade Unions.
- Experience in implementing OD and Workforce strategy.
- Experience in developing and implementing HR policies and practices.
- Experience in implementing significant changes to pay systems and other terms and conditions.
- Experience in managing complex and sensitive employment relations issues.
- Experience in coaching and training managers in OD and HR issues.
- 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.
- Demonstrable understanding of different models of HR service provision.
- Highly specialist knowledge of one or more HR topics acquired through degree and professional HR qualification plus additional training or equivalent experience to masters level or equivalent.
- Ability to build effective relations with senior operational and clinical managers.
- Ability to influence, guide, challenge and persuade at all levels of the Trust.
- Advanced negotiation, mediation, facilitation, problem-solving, interpersonal, analytical skills.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Willingness to travel
- Flexible approach to working hours
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management or equivalent HR or OD management qualification. Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior workforce experience in advising senior managers on best practice HR approaches, particularly relating to change management.
- Working with Trade Unions.
- Experience in implementing OD and Workforce strategy.
- Experience in developing and implementing HR policies and practices.
- Experience in implementing significant changes to pay systems and other terms and conditions.
- Experience in managing complex and sensitive employment relations issues.
- Experience in coaching and training managers in OD and HR issues.
- 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.
- Demonstrable understanding of different models of HR service provision.
- Highly specialist knowledge of one or more HR topics acquired through degree and professional HR qualification plus additional training or equivalent experience to masters level or equivalent.
- Ability to build effective relations with senior operational and clinical managers.
- Ability to influence, guide, challenge and persuade at all levels of the Trust.
- Advanced negotiation, mediation, facilitation, problem-solving, interpersonal, analytical skills.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Willingness to travel
- Flexible approach to working hours
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.
