Senior People Partner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please review the full JD ahead of your application; some main responsibilities of the post are:

Ensure the people elements of business cases are well-structured, cost effective and deliver strategic and operational objectives.

Provide guidance to the Divisional Leadership Team on people issues, risks and developments relating to the Division(s) for board management purposes, guided by in-depth and expert knowledge of the Division/service area.

Seek feedback and coaching to continually learn and develop as a professional.

Provide support and oversight of any case work or projects allocated to staff within the People Services Hub, working collaboratively with the People Services Hub Manager in the management of capacity and capability, and in supporting their on-going learning and development.

Ensure local operational/service business strategy/plans are in place and reflect business opportunities for growth, plans for redesigned services and are aligned to the overall Trusts People Plan.

Responsible for the planning of organisational change programmes and joint ventures with new partners relating to service reconfiguration programmes and delivery of strategic and operational objectives.

Work with high levels of autonomy to interpret and lead on people matters, commissioning support from OD Partners as required, and carrying out highly complex intervention requirements across multiple service streams.

Provide, monitor and analyse divisional workforce information reports, highlighting areas for concern. Proactively work with managers to put plans in place to resolve areas of concern and/or manage risks, ensuring delivery of national and local people performance targets and helping managers to identify how targets can be best achieved.

Fully utilise the Trusts electronic workforce systems, produce reports to aid problem identification and management action.

Monitor and report against agreed People Services Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for key performance areas, ensuring that there are clearly defined key performance indicators and productivity metrics against which, areas are monitored and improvement actions taken.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Educated to degree level and Masters level or equivalent knowledge acquired by experience.
• CIPD qualified or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of operational and strategic HR achievement at a senior level.
• Previous public sector experience within a Unionised environment.
• Substantial evidence of strategic project management experience, and ability to work autonomously in leading, implementing and managing areas of work and service redesign projects to tight deadlines from initiation to completion.
• Substantial experience of performance management processes, hearings, appeals and employment tribunals.

Skills

Essential

• Change Management - ability to assess the organisation's change capacity to absorb scale of OD interventions, and the potential risks and impact on business performance
• Well- developed written and presentation skills and demonstrable experience of reporting and policy writing skills.
• Well-developed communication skills including strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills.
• High level of analytical and judgement skills which require management of complex facts and problems.
• Evidence of ability to manage complex and difficult situations where there is often direct conflict to prioritise work in the face of competing demands.
• Able to capture and use workforce metrics to inform workforce and strategic plans.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Is a positive role model of the leadership behaviours that build engaged staff and teams.
• Credible with strong sense of integrity.
• Is a positive role model of the leadership behaviours that build engaged staff and teams
• Calm, empathetic and logical when faced with urgent and stressful situations.
• Commitment to helping to provide equitable services for all health service users and NHS staff.
• Commitment to the principles of lifelong learning and continuous professional development.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trust Site

St Anns Road

Tottenham

N15 3TH

Employer's website

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