Job summary
The purpose of the Head of HR Business Partnering role is to:
- Lead the HR Business Partnering team to deliver great people approaches and enable Directorates to deliver the NHP strategy.
- Oversee the effective collation, analysis, and reporting of People data, ensuring actionable insights are generated that drive effective decision making on people issues.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting innovation across Cluster and Sector. Working closely with colleagues across the sector, ensuring coherent strategy and will:
- Drive the strategy for, supporting and ensuring alignment across the
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
- Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation, and the development of strategy and operational policies to support this vision
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Support development by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
- Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training products
Provide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.
About us
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only,agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only,agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience leading and managing HR teams, setting strategic direction, and driving performance to achieve business objectives.
- Deep understanding of HR business partnering principles and practices.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing HR strategies and plans.
- Good experience in change management and organisational development.
- Thorough understanding of HR policies, employment laws, and regulations to ensure compliance.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness. Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience leading and managing HR teams, setting strategic direction, and driving performance to achieve business objectives.
- Deep understanding of HR business partnering principles and practices.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing HR strategies and plans.
- Good experience in change management and organisational development.
- Thorough understanding of HR policies, employment laws, and regulations to ensure compliance.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
Values and behaviours
Essential
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness. Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Additional information
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).
