Associate HR Business Partner

Job Summary

We are recruiting two Associate People Business Partners—one permanent and one fixed term—to join our progressive People & OD team. In these roles you will work closely with clinical and operational leaders and managers, developing a deep understanding of the services you support—including performance pressures, quality priorities and financial constraints—and translating these into clear workforce and people priorities. You will support leaders at all levels, from senior clinicians to newly appointed managers, offering practical, proportionate and credible people advice.

You will bring strong judgement, emotional intelligence and professional courage, moving confidently between strategic thinking and operational reality, and understanding that workforce decisions directly affect patient experience.

• Work in partnership with clinical and operational leaders and managers.
• Develop a deep understanding of the services you support, including performance pressures, quality priorities and financial constraints.
• Translate service challenges into clear workforce and people priorities.
• Provide practical, proportionate and credible people advice to leaders at all levels.
• Advise and support organisational change programmes, including restructures, workforce design, consultation processes and TUPE transfers.
• Bring financial awareness, supporting services to manage their workforce within pay budgets and make sustainable workforce decisions.
• Contribute to building confident, compassionate and effective leadership practice across the organisation.
• Lead and advise on complex employee relations and employment matters, ensuring high standards of judgement, preparation and organisational assurance for formal capability and disciplinary hearings.
• Assess complex situations, providing options appraisal and balanced risk based advice.
• Deliver initiatives such as improving staff survey response rates; advancing equality of opportunity; improving attendance; and supporting resourcing and retention plans.
• Influence, challenge and support leaders with confidence and credibility.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values—expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Optional benefits include Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Band 8a. Salary £64,156 to £71,148 a year inclusive. Contract permanent. Working pattern full-time. Reference number 290-CR-1020. Job locations Trust Wide London W2 1NY
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• Education/Qualifications – Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent experience. CIPD Qualified to level 7.
• Experience – Significant operational HR experience with highly complex casework. Sound knowledge of NHS Terms and Conditions of Employment. Experience of advising managers on complex change processes including restructuring, redundancy and TUPE transfers. Experience of developing and implementing HR policies. Experience of working in partnership with Trades Unions towards shared goals with evidence of achieving organisational outcomes. Evidence of leading the workforce elements of key workforce programmes/projects including change management.
  
  Sound understanding of HR best practice, current employment law and potential developments. Experience of preparing and managing cases to employment tribunals / appeals.
• Desirable Qualifications – Coaching qualification/experience. Experience of working in the NHS.
• Skills/Knowledge/Abilities – Excellent written communication skills. Ability to work. Supporting managers with resource planning. Ability to quickly develop productive working relationships with key stakeholders. Intermediate MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Ability to manipulate and present qualitative and quantitative data in a meaningful and persuasive way. To deliver pragmatic and…