People Partner

**Job Posted**:28 August 2024
**Job Updated**:28 August 2024

**Job Title **People Partner**

**Function: People & Engagement**

**Location: Nottingham/Alfreton/Hybrid**

**Contract type: Fixed Term Contract until 31/3/25**

**Salary**:£53,650 with potential to rise to £63,118 over 3 years**

**Closing Date: Tuesday 10**th** September 2024**

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a **People Partner** to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.

We are seeking a strategic and experienced **People Partner** who will work with senior leaders in the Directorate to develop strategic people plans that enable the delivery of business goals.

**Every day you will **
- Support the design and implementation of great people partnering practices across the organisation.
- Partner with the Executive Director and their Senior Leadership Team, within their Directorate to develop and implement a strategic people plan to support the delivery of overall business goals.
- Becoming a trusted advisor and critical friend to the Executive team; to coach and challenge their thinking to deliver excellent people solutions, in collaboration with the wider People and Engagement Directorate Teams.
- Provide specialist, best practice People advice to leaders to enable the delivery of people strategies, projects, and change initiatives.
- Enable Directorate alignment to corporate organisation principles.
- Be future focussed and able to shape the People Strategy for their assigned directorate

**What can we offer you?**

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

- Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
- We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
- We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
- A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
- Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
- 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
- Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

**NHS Supply Chain, who are we?**

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

**What skills will help you thrive in this role?**
- Level 7 CIPD qualified, or equivalent level of experience
- Significant experience in and proven track record of people partnering, at a Board and Executive level within a large organisation.
- Previous experience in introducing business/people partnering with a strong focus on enabling strategic delivery and proven experience in transforming people delivery.
- Significant experience working with business leaders to deliver large transformational change programmes
- Workforce planning capability - to design effective people strategies to maximise the effectiveness of people budgets considering the breadth of available talent development and acquisition options.
- Credible, professional, and articulate; able to bring their own experience and style of thinking to coach and influence decision-making
- Commercial thinker, able to solve problems and implement people-focussed solutions with ease
- Significant experience of Partnering at Director/Head of level needed to challenge and support thinking that shape the formation and delivery of Directorate People Plans.

**Our Inclusive Commitment**

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

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