Job summary
We are currently looking to recruit a professional, customer
focused and responsive Senior HR Business Partner to join our team. You will be
supporting our Directorate of Community Health Services and enabling them to
adapt to the changing expectations and needs of the NHS and its people.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Operational HR, the post holder
will partner with the directorate leadership team enabling them to shape,
translate and implement the wider people agenda, ensuring the provision of a
quality people solutions, aligned and responsive to the needs of our services
and supporting our staff to deliver the best patient centred care.
With demonstrable HR experience and strong technical
knowledge the successful candidate will be someone who truly values
collaborative working and has the skills and experience to support leaders with
innovative and professional people solutions.
If you want to know more about joining our team then please
get in touch with Claire Taylor, Head of Operational HR at
Claire.Taylor113@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Working in a Senior HR Business Partner role you will advise
and provide proactive support to managers and services in meeting operational
and organisational objectives, through:
Consistently thinking about how their work can help and
support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
Proactively work with managers to put plans in place to
resolve areas of concern and/or manage risks, ensuring delivery of national and
local HR performance targets
Supporting delivery of complex change management programmes.
Provide, monitor and analyse workforce information reports
for the directorate, highlighting areas for concern.
Support the directorate to complete workforce plans and
update workforce strategy.
Lead on various Trust-wide workforce initiatives and
programmes, with responsibility for development and implementation with your
service colleagues.
Supporting the implementation of the Trusts Just Culture
journey including civility and respect principles.
About us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
If you like what you've read and would like
more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click
onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Chartered MCIPD or plans to gain chartered status within 12 months
- Knowledge and expertise gained through in-depth experience to Masters Level equivalent
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Experience
Essential
- Experience (both work and life related)
- Substantial experience of working as a Senior HR Advisor/HRBP alongside Senior Management team and Operational service Leads
- Experience of working at a strategic level.
- A successful track record of managing change and service reconfiguration at a senior level
- Significant experience of leading large scale change as an HR professional.
- Extensive experience of managing complex employment relations, including negotiation and consultation processes.
- Experience of applying TUPE for transfers to and from both public and private sector.
- Significant experience of managing and motivating professionally qualified HR staff
- Experience of working in a complex unionised environment/organisation
- Experience of Project Management
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and influencing skills.
- Substantial experience in an operational generalist role, covering a wide range of ER responsibilities, including sickness management, disciplinaries, grievance, organisational change, redundancy etc.
- Experience of working in a complex, changing environment, and in contentious situations.
- Personal Attributes
- Strong commitment to the development of a customer focused approach in delivering HR solutions.
- Excellent time management and able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach, able to work on own initiative and take responsibility for delegated areas of responsibility
- Self awareness and understanding of own strengths and limitations and impact of personal style and approach on others
- Commitment to openness, honesty, inclusivity and personal integrity in dealing with others
- Standard Requirements
- Commitment to Equality & Valuing Diversity Principles
- Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection
- Understanding of the service users of the Trust (which could include lived experience of conditions the Trust deals with or of receiving services relevant to those the Trust provides)
- Mobility
- Own transport. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Chartered MCIPD or plans to gain chartered status within 12 months
- Knowledge and expertise gained through in-depth experience to Masters Level equivalent
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Experience
Essential
- Experience (both work and life related)
- Substantial experience of working as a Senior HR Advisor/HRBP alongside Senior Management team and Operational service Leads
- Experience of working at a strategic level.
- A successful track record of managing change and service reconfiguration at a senior level
- Significant experience of leading large scale change as an HR professional.
- Extensive experience of managing complex employment relations, including negotiation and consultation processes.
- Experience of applying TUPE for transfers to and from both public and private sector.
- Significant experience of managing and motivating professionally qualified HR staff
- Experience of working in a complex unionised environment/organisation
- Experience of Project Management
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and influencing skills.
- Substantial experience in an operational generalist role, covering a wide range of ER responsibilities, including sickness management, disciplinaries, grievance, organisational change, redundancy etc.
- Experience of working in a complex, changing environment, and in contentious situations.
- Personal Attributes
- Strong commitment to the development of a customer focused approach in delivering HR solutions.
- Excellent time management and able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Proactive, creative and flexible approach, able to work on own initiative and take responsibility for delegated areas of responsibility
- Self awareness and understanding of own strengths and limitations and impact of personal style and approach on others
- Commitment to openness, honesty, inclusivity and personal integrity in dealing with others
- Standard Requirements
- Commitment to Equality & Valuing Diversity Principles
- Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection
- Understanding of the service users of the Trust (which could include lived experience of conditions the Trust deals with or of receiving services relevant to those the Trust provides)
- Mobility
- Own transport. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role
