Wye Valley NHS Trust

Deputy HR Business Partner

The closing date is 01 June 2025

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and confident HR professional to join our team as a Deputy HR Business Partner, working 30 hours per week. This role will provide dedicated HR support to the Clinical Support Division and allocated areas within the Corporate Division.

This is an excellent opportunity to bring your HR expertise into a varied and impactful role. You'll provide professional, high-quality advice and support across a wide range of HR matters - helping to ensure the delivery of fair, effective, and values based people management.

You'll work closely with the HR Business Partner to drive improvements in leadership capability, workforce performance, and staff experience across your designated areas.

In addition, you will contribute to the wider work of the HR Directorate through involvement in HR projects and by supporting the development, review and implementation of Trust-wide policies.

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities:

Providing expert HR advice on a range of workforce issues
Supporting managers in handling complex employee relations cases
Guiding and coaching managers on effective sickness absence management
Building management capability through coaching and trusted support
Supporting workforce planning, recruitment and retention activities
Contributing to service improvement, change management and organisational development activity
Ensuring compliance with HR policy, employment legislation, and good practice
Delivering and facilitating HR-related training for managers

About us

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

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 wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.

Date posted

15 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

229-COR-7208992

Job locations

Franklin Barnes

1-3 Commercial Road

Hereford

HR1 2AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.

We would encourage all applicants to take up the opportunity for an informal chat to find out more about the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.

We would encourage all applicants to take up the opportunity for an informal chat to find out more about the role.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

CIPD Qualified and Associate Member of CIPD
Degree level or equivalent education
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as a HR Practitioner

Skills Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Awareness and commitment to the broad strategic direction of the NHS
Demonstrable ability to work effectively as a team member assisting colleagues to deliver team objectives
Demonstrable ability to deliver a high standard of customer service and quality
Demonstrates well founded knowledge of employment law and the ability to apply it practically to situations
Able to express information in a clear, concise and understandable way, both verbally and in writing. Able to listen carefully in order to understand the needs of others

Desirable

Experience of supporting and facilitating individual and team development
Experience of designing and delivering training and development programmes.

Experience

Essential

Recent HR experience and in particular demonstrable experience of advising and influencing managers in good HR practice
Experience of providing an HR service within the NHS or similar service organisation
Effective knowledge of Agenda for Change and medical staffing terms and conditions of service and able to provide accurate and practical advice on these terms and conditions
Experience of working with trade union representatives

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

CIPD Qualified and Associate Member of CIPD
Degree level or equivalent education
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as a HR Practitioner

Skills Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Awareness and commitment to the broad strategic direction of the NHS
Demonstrable ability to work effectively as a team member assisting colleagues to deliver team objectives
Demonstrable ability to deliver a high standard of customer service and quality
Demonstrates well founded knowledge of employment law and the ability to apply it practically to situations
Able to express information in a clear, concise and understandable way, both verbally and in writing. Able to listen carefully in order to understand the needs of others

Desirable

Experience of supporting and facilitating individual and team development
Experience of designing and delivering training and development programmes.

Experience

Essential

Recent HR experience and in particular demonstrable experience of advising and influencing managers in good HR practice
Experience of providing an HR service within the NHS or similar service organisation
Effective knowledge of Agenda for Change and medical staffing terms and conditions of service and able to provide accurate and practical advice on these terms and conditions
Experience of working with trade union representatives

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Franklin Barnes

1-3 Commercial Road

Hereford

HR1 2AZ

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Franklin Barnes

1-3 Commercial Road

Hereford

HR1 2AZ

Employer's website

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