HR Business Partner

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 jobYou 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 usJoin us atUHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better neverstops AtUHSussexwe're proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of theUK's largest acute Trusts, we're a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years. Improving lives:We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put ourPatient First.Our mission is summed up by our 'where better never stops' motto and no matter the role atUHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.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 ourwellbeing programmefor staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need itbecausewe know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves. Build a career with us:As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that 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 choosingUHSussexyou are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that youdo.Job descriptionJob responsibilities1. 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 SpecificationEssential and DesirableEssential
oEducated to masters level 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
Employer detailsEmployer nameUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)AddressWorthing Hospital Lyndhurst Road Worthing BN11 2DHAny attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 279-6203560-APR24
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