Assistant People Business Partner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Workforce strategy and planning

Support the development of their care groups/corporate teams workforce plan in line with the site and Trust priorities and our overall workforce strategy

Support their care groups/corporate teams leadership teams to determine workforce priorities, ensuring consistency with Trust-wide plans

Input into the development of the Trusts overarching workforce strategy, and support implementation for their areas

Undertake analysis of operational workforce data, identify trends and support interventions in line with relevant data

Proactively contribute to the development of care groups/corporate teams workforce plan, ensuring these are consistent with Trust workforce priorities and financial, activity and HR metrics are aligned

Support the development of the care groups/corporate teams plan ensuring that productivity metrics, workforce and role redesign options are fully explored

Work collaboratively with the workforce team to ensure the ESR data is accurate, accessible and understood within the care group/corporate team.

In partnership with the care group managers, proactively develop recruitment and retention strategies for hard to fill posts within their care group/corporate team.

Workforce Performance

Work proactively with the care groups/corporate teams to ensure that all staff receive a timely and meaningful appraisal.

Drive uptake of all statutory and mandatory training within the care groups/corporate teams.

Continuously educate and coach managers on the use of workforce metrics to develop action plans to improve performance.

Provide the care groups/corporate teams with analysis and trends from the workforce data including workforce performance metrics, pay expenditure, temporary staffing usage and costs.

Work closely with the medical workforce team to ensure job planning, appraisal and revalidation compliance rates are high within their care groups/corporate teams.

Support the pay control processes for substantive and temporary recruitment, ensuring managers explore opportunities to review and refresh roles and introduce new ways of working or reduce spend.

Support the development of strategies to assist financial recovery and cost improvement programmes, working with managers to identify and manage the workforce impact.

Engagement

Analyse results of the NHS staff survey, friends and family test and other data sources to work with management teams to set priorities and develop actions to improve staff experience.

Proactively invite and share information from the operational teams to inform their care groups/corporate teams engagement plan to ensure it will have the biggest impact for all staff groups within the care groups/corporate teams.

Draw on workforce expertise and creativity to offer the care groups/corporate teams bold, innovative staff engagement initiatives.

Proactively support the roll out of the Trusts reward & recognition programmes ensuring local communication.

Drive improvements in health and wellbeing within the care groups/corporate teams, finding opportunities to influence ways of working and coaching managers.

Organisational change and development

Assist in service development ensuring managers make decisions on workforce that will deliver high quality care to patients and efficient use of resources.

Support the review of junior doctor rotas supporting the team with KPI data.

Provide support to managers in the implementation of all types of organisational change, ensuring that organisational change complies with good employment practice and the Trusts Change Management Policy with the taken advice from the Associate Director of Workforce.

Work with the Trusts organisational development team to support organisational development initiatives to address workforce priorities.

Workforce expertise

Be the first port of call for workforce issues and act as a sign post to corporate workforce teams to ensure all staff are supported quickly.

Provide support to managers on Trust policies, terms and conditions and best practice guidance to support managers to make proposals on these policies.

Line Management of the Employee Services function for Division A Care Groups

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent
• CIPD membership - level 5

Desirable

• Masters level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Developed knowledge across a wide range of workforce procedures and practices
• Track record of successfully delivering specific workforce projects
• Understanding of the Equality and Diversity agenda within a public sector setting
• Understanding of, and commitment to, NHS/HR modernisation agenda and its contribution to advancing patient care

Desirable

• Experience of providing advice on complex employment issues
• Understanding of processes and underpinning core principles for the successful management of change

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people on complex issues and/or in complex situations
• Ability to understand, manipulate and analyse electronic HR data and present appropriately.
• Able to use persuasive, motivational and negotiating skills to raise staff management standards in area of responsibility
• Good understanding of how to achieve cultural change in a complex organisation

Desirable

• Able to support and adjust plans within broad HR policies and regulations, with the supervision of others
• Able to analyse workforce problems and develop and appraise a range of options.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Denmark Hill

LONDON

SE5 9RS

Employer's website

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)