Job summary
Senior People Partner - Medical (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)
A unique opportunity has arisen for a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment as Senior People Partner supporting our Medical and Dental colleagues. You will support the Chief Medical Office providing strategic and generalist HR services, managing complex casework under the Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) and supporting workforce planning and working with Clinical Leads to transform pathways of care.
You will work with colleagues from regional Trusts to develop collaborative practices, ways of working and procedures. You will demonstrate that you can lead the co-ordination of a number of workforce projects to ensure effective delivery in line with Trust strategic objectives.
You will be confident in your operational HR knowledge and critical reasoning skills and will bring a systematic and organised approach to introducing new work practices and policies.While not essential it would be beneficial to have prior experience of delivering a HR service to a medical workforce and having knowledge of national medical contracts and terms and conditions.
The role requires you to work on site for a minimum of 3 days a week in line with our hybrid working model.
Main duties of the job
You will also be confident in your understanding of employment law, have experience of handling a range of employee relations issues, able to proactively coach and support customers with people management policies and be confident to lead on a dedicated work stream.
This really is a unique opportunity to further develop your core HR competences and expertise in a supportive and collaborative environment which never stands still. We will support you with the development of your transferable skills to enable you to maximise this opportunity and enhance your career pathway.
About us
Whether you're involved in patient care or providing essential support behind the scenes, you're here to make a difference! You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded.
This is an autonomous role working closely with our team of Senior People Partners. You will be part of an innovative and creative People Operations team with a strong reputation, which delivers a highly efficient, proactive, and customer focused service.
The role will require you to build strong and effective relationships across the organisation, including with senior and executive staff members.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be the senior accountable HR representative for a Division and portfolio holder for a dedicated Workforce and HR work stream providing strategic HR support ensuring the people perspective is incorporated into business planning and organisational development.
The post holder is responsible for proactively ensuring that they contribute HR and Workforce expertise to business decision making and developing innovative HR solutions.
Please see attached the full job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be the senior accountable HR representative for a Division and portfolio holder for a dedicated Workforce and HR work stream providing strategic HR support ensuring the people perspective is incorporated into business planning and organisational development.
The post holder is responsible for proactively ensuring that they contribute HR and Workforce expertise to business decision making and developing innovative HR solutions.
Please see attached the full job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CIPD Qualified - Live Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Chartered Status
- Masters level education or equivalent experience
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development.
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Mediation Training
- Workforce Planning
- OD training
Experience
Essential
- A Senior HR professional with substantial experience of working at a senior level in a large, complex, multi-sited organisation whether that Private or Public Sector
- Good knowledge of HR leading edge people practices and tools across the whole range of HR.
- Experience of working as a key stakeholder on HR Workforce planning projects within a large organisation.
- Evidence of experience in successfully managing relationships with senior managers within an organisation
- Experience of coaching and training managers in HR issues
- Experience of managing a team and achieving high performance
- Analytical and numerate, with the ability to understand and interpret trends from data
- The ability to deliver against a series of tight and changing deadlines.
- The ability to deliver against a series of tight and changing deadlines.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the current HR agenda in the NHS and how this supports service provision, performance and improvement
- Experience of developing and implementing large scale workforce changes and skill mix transformation as the key HR lead
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- CIPD Qualified - Live Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Chartered Status
- Masters level education or equivalent experience
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development.
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Mediation Training
- Workforce Planning
- OD training
Experience
Essential
- A Senior HR professional with substantial experience of working at a senior level in a large, complex, multi-sited organisation whether that Private or Public Sector
- Good knowledge of HR leading edge people practices and tools across the whole range of HR.
- Experience of working as a key stakeholder on HR Workforce planning projects within a large organisation.
- Evidence of experience in successfully managing relationships with senior managers within an organisation
- Experience of coaching and training managers in HR issues
- Experience of managing a team and achieving high performance
- Analytical and numerate, with the ability to understand and interpret trends from data
- The ability to deliver against a series of tight and changing deadlines.
- The ability to deliver against a series of tight and changing deadlines.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the current HR agenda in the NHS and how this supports service provision, performance and improvement
- Experience of developing and implementing large scale workforce changes and skill mix transformation as the key HR lead
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
