HR Business Partner

2 weeks ago

Worthing, United Kingdom University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279) Full time

Job summary

An interesting and exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience HR professional to join our friendly and supportive Human Resources Business Partnering team at University Hospitals Sussex, an acute hospital trust employing c20,000 employees.

Main duties of the job

You must be able to demonstrate your experience of providing professional senior HR advice and support to Trust leaders to help them achieve their workforce plans and goals. This includes having substantial prior experience of resolving a range of complex workforce issues, building staff engagement, implementing successful workforce changes, and improving key performance indicators.

You will need a good working knowledge of current employment legislation and experience of satisfactorily resolving manager and staff queries. Excellent negotiating, influencing and communication and IT skills are required. Experience of analysing workforce data, together with local knowledge and manager and staff feedback to identify workforce trends and hotspots, to develop and deliver strategic improvement plans with managers will be a key requirement.

There will be opportunities to support corporate HR projects, acquire improvement methodology knowledge and experience, and to develop and deliver training sessions. Prior NHS experience is desirable although not essential as manager and team support will be provided.

This role may be based at either our Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton Worthing Hospital or St Richards Hospital, Chichester, sites, with some travel being required across other sites dependent on team and divisional requirements. Although the role is office based, part-week home working will be considered dependent on service needs.

About us

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer abuddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it - because we know that to look after others we must first look afterourselves. As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the bestthat we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do. We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Provide professional and customer-focussed HR leadership, advice and support to Divisional leads and managers to help improve and support staff engagement, address workforce issues, enhance patient care and efficiencies, and achieve divisional and people objectives.

2. Influence and support the strategic direction of the Division by providing expert HR advice and workforce information at a Divisional level to help facilitate the Divisions achievement of their Workforce KPIs. For example, developing effective recruitment and retention plans, improving sickness absence management levels or reducing bank and agency expenditure. Provide HRBP analysis and reports monthly or as required with a focus on addressing hotspot areas effectively and efficiently.

3. Lead on providing professional senior HR support and coaching to improve divisional staff engagement/staff survey results, resolve workforce issues and improve people workforce metrics.

4. Lead on specific HR projects to enable the Trust to deliver workforce initiatives, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of employment and work development/thinking within the NHS, related current and planned employment legislation, adopting good practices.

5. Design and deliver HR training sessions as required to improve manager awareness and capability on a range of issues and to support the roll-out of HR initiatives.

6. Contribute to the formulation and implementation of HR policies and procedures; Research and writing of HR policies and toolkits/guidance/standard operating procedure documents as required. HRBPs may have allocated standard operating procedures to review/maintain in line with legislation, learning, or agreed changes in practice.

-- Please see job description & person specs for full details.

Person Specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential

oEducated to masters level in HR Management or equivalent level of experience of working in a relevant HR senior role oSignificant HR experience in a large complex organisation/Experience of addressing HR workforce issues; oChange management, restructuring, TUPE, and/or employee relations; oAnalysis of staffing data and design of improvement plans;

Desirable

oCIPD qualified, Associate level or above oHR Business Partnering or HR advisory experience in the NHS/healthcare sector Experience of utilising service improvement methodology eg Kaizen

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role). Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues

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