HR Business Partner

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

We are looking for an experienced HR Professional to come and join our team at Wye Valley NHS Trust in Herefordshire. As HR Business Partner you will be working closely with our Clinical Services Division leadership team, covering ca. 1200 staff.

This is a key role and will suit someone who is comfortable working at operational level as well as being a strategic partner to the divisional leadership team, in supporting the delivery of the HR KPIs and overall HR & OD Strategy.

This is a friendly and supportive team and work environment where you will be working within the HR Operations Team and colleagues across the wider HR Directorate which includes the Education/OD team and therefore will be supported by colleagues who have a wide range of experience and skills.We work flexibly and the team generally works on an agile basis between office, home and hospital/community sites.

Main duties of the job

As a strategic HR partner, you will work with the management teams in the business to clarify the workforce implications of their business plans and agree priorities for HR activity to support specific service lines.

Lead and deliver focused HR interventions to support designated business units in support of their strategic and operational plans, using specialist central HR teams to support specific actions and projects;

Seek to deliver high quality advice to managers and staff and look towards the continued improvement and development of the HR service;

Have a lead role in supporting the delivery of the workforce elements of key organisational change and resourcing projects, ensuring the provision of intelligent, timely and relevant HR advice and support;

Help to build and sustain people management capacity through effective coaching of managers in applying HR policy and practice and helping deliver improvements in how staff performance is maximised.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

26 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

229-COR-5948905-A

Job locations

Hereford

HR1 2AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached document providing the job description and person specification for more detailed information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached document providing the job description and person specification for more detailed information.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Chartered CIPD
Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience, knowledge and training
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as a HR Practitioner commensurate with the level of role

Skills, Knowledge and Attributes

Essential

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear,fluent, persuasive, non-judgemental and which enhances professional credibility.
Evidence of ability to act as a role model for staff and advocate best practiceacross the organisation which promotes equality, fairness, dignity and respect and embraces diversity.

Experience

Essential

Significant operational HR experience with experience of developing the workforce aspects of operational business plans.
Evidence of leading the workforce elements of key organisational change programmes and devising HR solutions which ensure consistency.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Chartered CIPD
Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience, knowledge and training
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as a HR Practitioner commensurate with the level of role

Skills, Knowledge and Attributes

Essential

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in a manner which is clear,fluent, persuasive, non-judgemental and which enhances professional credibility.
Evidence of ability to act as a role model for staff and advocate best practiceacross the organisation which promotes equality, fairness, dignity and respect and embraces diversity.

Experience

Essential

Significant operational HR experience with experience of developing the workforce aspects of operational business plans.
Evidence of leading the workforce elements of key organisational change programmes and devising HR solutions which ensure consistency.

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.