HR Business Partner

Overview

For further information about this role, please email Chioma Ejiogu (Assistant Director of Workforce & Organisational Development) via

An exciting opportunity awaits to join our team as one of five HR Business Partners, reporting to an Assistant Director of Workforce and Organisational Development.

Below Are a Few Things That Are Important To Us As a Team Just In Case It Helps You Making Your Decision To Join Our Team

• We spend a lot of time together so we try to look after each other
• We try to find room for some laughter at work
• We support hybrid working, with a balance of home working and regular time in the office to enable collaboration, connection and effective team working
• We always try to balance work and life commitments, recognising that while meeting appraisal objectives matters, so does making it to the school play, attending a drumming lesson, executing the next World Book Day costume or supporting your football team (whoever they are!)

• To act as an advocate of change and modernisation in support of clinical, business and HR strategies, championing best practice HR management, influencing key clinical and business decisions to ensure the most effective management of staff
• To head a team of HR professionals to work alongside the divisional management team and provide professional customer focused HR advice, coaching interventions and solutions that support the division in the identification and management of HR issues and major change programmes
• To provide advice and guidance to the division on complex workforce issues in order to minimise risk and financial exposure
• To develop divisional workforce plans that support local, organisational and national strategy and agenda
• To work with senior specialist HR colleagues and the wider HR teams to ensure the Corporate HR services meet the needs of the division and that workforce issues are addressed efficiently and effectively
• To undertake specific projects/responsibilities to support delivery of the workforce and organisational development strategy, both within the division and across the Trust as appropriate
• To contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust’s strategic aims, Workforce strategy and HR policy as a proactive member of the senior HR management team
• To work closely with the Organisational Development team and the Equality & Diversity team to ope rationalise key priorities within divisions i.e. staff survey and Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) action plans

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

• Degree level education or equivalent experience
• Masters level qualification in HR-related specialism or equivalent experience
• Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
• Evidence of continued learning & development

• Generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across the range of HR functions
• Involvement in setting of workforce strategy
• Experience in the public sector in a large complex organisation with union recognition
• Experience of managing a team

• Leadership fostering powerful and productive working relationships internally and externally
• Championing improvements
• Effective written and oral communication skills for a variety of formal and informal purposes
• Able to influence, negotiate and persuade regarding complex or sensitive issues
• Ability to demonstrate resilience
• To be confident in making difficult strategic decisions and influencing others as appropriate

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of…