Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and confident HR professional to join our team as a Deputy HR Business Partner, working 30 hours per week. This role will provide dedicated HR support to the Clinical Support Division and allocated areas within the Corporate Division. 

This is an excellent opportunity to bring your HR expertise into a varied and impactful role. You'll provide professional, high-quality advice and support across a wide range of HR matters - helping to ensure the delivery of fair, effective, and values based people management.

You'll work closely with the HR Business Partner to drive improvements in leadership capability, workforce performance, and staff experience across your designated areas. 

In addition, you will contribute to the wider work of the HR Directorate through involvement in HR projects and by supporting the development, review and implementation of Trust-wide policies. 

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities: 

• Providing expert HR advice on a range of workforce issues
• Supporting managers in handling complex employee relations cases
• Guiding and coaching managers on effective sickness absence management 
• Building management capability through coaching and trusted support
• Supporting workforce planning, recruitment and retention activities
• Contributing to service improvement, change management and organisational development activity 
• Ensuring compliance with HR policy, employment legislation, and good practice
• Delivering and facilitating HR-related training for managers

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.