Job summary
Head of Business Partnering
The BSW Hospitals Group is recruiting for an exceptional Head of Business Partnering to lead the People Business Partnering function at site level within Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH) ensuring the Care Organisation has a strategic, future-focused workforce plan aligned to its unique operational and clinical priorities. This is a high-impact leadership with responsibility for driving the delivery of the BSW People Plan locally while contributing to system-wide workforce transformation.
As the senior People lead on site, you will act as a trusted advisor to the Site HR Director and Care Organisation Leadership Team, shaping strategic decisions and ensuring the People function is fully aligned with the organisation's long-term goals. You will lead a high-performing team of Strategic and Medical Business Partners, champion a proactive, data-driven approach, and ensure workforce initiatives reflect the needs, challenges, and ambitions of your specific Care Organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, influential leader who thrives on collaboration, strategic thinking, and driving meaningful change at both site and system level.
Main duties of the job
You will lead the Business Partnering function for your designated site, ensuring strategic people initiatives are aligned with local organisational and clinical priorities. This includes driving delivery of the BSW People Plan within your Care Organisation, advising senior leaders on workforce strategy, and commissioning work across HR design and delivery teams to ensure seamless, high-quality support.
You will play a key role in shaping site-specific workforce plans, influencing organisational strategy, and ensuring the People function is aligned with long-term business and clinical objectives.
You will provide professional leadership to a senior team of Strategic and Medical Business Partners, enabling them to operate as strategic advisors across Divisions and Services. This includes oversight of workforce initiatives tailored to your site's evolving needs, leadership on complex employee relations matters, and close collaboration with Group People Operations to manage risk and ensure consistency. Using data and insight, you will develop innovative, evidence-based solutions that support local business outcomes, workforce sustainability, and cultural transformation.
About us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Head of Business Partnering is a site-based role and plays a pivotal role in aligning strategic people initiatives with overall organisational and clinical strategy, ensuring a future-ready workforce that enables the achievement of long-term goals.
At a site level, drive delivery of the People Plan initiatives that are in place across the BSW Hospitals Group (Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH), Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH), and Salisbury (SFT) NHS Foundation Trust)
Please see attached full Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Head of Business Partnering is a site-based role and plays a pivotal role in aligning strategic people initiatives with overall organisational and clinical strategy, ensuring a future-ready workforce that enables the achievement of long-term goals.
At a site level, drive delivery of the People Plan initiatives that are in place across the BSW Hospitals Group (Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH), Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH), and Salisbury (SFT) NHS Foundation Trust)
Please see attached full Job Description
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in strategic HR leadership roles, including a proven track record of working as a senior HR Business Partner, leading senior people teams, and supporting large and complex organisations on an organisation-wide basis.
- Membership with CIPD with FCIPD or MCIPD.
- Understanding aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Extensive knowledge of People Service, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or experience to master's level equivalent
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in strategic HR leadership roles, including a proven track record of working as a senior HR Business Partner, leading senior people teams, and supporting large and complex organisations on an organisation-wide basis.
- Membership with CIPD with FCIPD or MCIPD.
- Understanding aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Extensive knowledge of People Service, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or experience to master's level equivalent
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Great Western Hospital
Marlborough Road
Swindon / Bath/ Salisbury
SN3 6BB
Employer's website
https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
