Are you an ambitious HR professional ready to step into a challenging, fast paced and influential role?
Do you thrive in complex, high volume environments where no two days are the same?
We’re looking for a HR Business Partner to join our busy and highly respected People & OD Directorate, working at the heart of a large NHS organisation that supports thousands of colleagues and delivers vital services to our communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide HR operational and strategic portfolio, in a team with a significant volume of operational HR activity, partnering closely with senior leaders to make a real difference to culture, performance and staff experience.
Working within a Business Partnering team you will support the Senior HR Business Partner through a combined HR operational and project role working with the senior teams in the Trust. You will have a significant degree of autonomy, which is why we are looking for a confident, experienced HR professional to provide sound HR advice on a variety of operational and strategic activities.
As a HR Business Partner, you will:
Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders and managers across clinical networks
Support and lead on complex employee relations cases, workforce challenges and high risk issues
Play a central role in organisational change, consultation and workforce transformation
Champion a Being Fair and Just and Learning Culture, working in partnership with staff side colleagues
Contribute to workforce planning, performance dashboards and people metrics
Support wellbeing, attendance management and engagement initiatives
Coach and develop managers to build strong, confident people management capability
Line manage HR Advisors and support their development.
This is a high tempo, pressurised environment at times, if you enjoy being busy, influencing outcomes, and juggling competing priorities, you will thrive here.
We would consider applications from individuals seeking a development opportunity. If you have strong operational HR experience and the capability to work at Band 7 level, but are still working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in HRM / CIPD, we would consider supporting you to achieve this as part of your development in role and you would commence as a Band 6 progressing to a Band 7 on completion of the qualification. This can be discussed at interview.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
For more information, please contact Angela Wright, Senior HR Business Partner,
[email protected] or Lisa Banks, Senior HR Business Partner
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