Job summary
- Main area
- Support Services - Workforce
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Hybrid working 40% on-site
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0516
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ, Magnitude House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
HR Business Partner
Band 8a
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust is seeking a strategic Human Resources Business Partner to join their established team.
The successful candidate will be experienced in supporting and implementing organisation development strategies including strategic workforce planning, talent management and succession planning, leadership development, and team-based working, and will be responsible for developing and supporting the delivery of the Care Group and Trust People Plan.
You will act as a strategic change agent, supporting the senior management team within the Care Group to engage and develop the culture required to deliver key strategic objectives whilst balancing the day-to-day operational demands of this strategic role.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced HR Business Partner, you will develop a keen understanding of the business. Experience of managing strategic organisational change within a complex environment is essential; along with service development and workforce planning experience, you will be working with the senior team to develop and support ongoing business planning
This is a challenging time for the NHS where the demand to provide more efficient services in a financially constrained environment is ever present. There are opportunities and challenges to continually develop our culture and ensure patients are at the center of everything we do. Employee engagement is critical for this and determination and resilience will be required to drive this agenda through.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
We welcome flexible working and operate a hybrid-working model with with a split of site-based and home-based working. Please do speak to us about any flexible working needs you may have.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The HR Business Partner will provide a comprehensive professional and high-quality HR service to the care group The primary function of the HR Business Partner will be to support the care group's senior management team in developing the workforce capability to deliver their strategic and operational business objectives.
As a senior HR professional, the HR Business Partner is expected to be largely self-managing. They will develop robust human resources relationships with other care group HR Business Partners and corporate areas to influence, challenge, and support service delivery and people strategies and monitor success. The role will develop and support the delivery of the care groups and Trust’s People Plan, to support the delivery of brilliant care through brilliant people.
In addition, the post holder will support the senior management team in the identification of training and development needs in respect of the people management agenda and generally for their functional areas at individual, team, and organisational levels.
The post holder will develop a thorough understanding of the care group's business unit and its business needs and will act as an integral member of the care group's senior management team.
The post holder will also work with the Deputy Director of Workforce and Organisational Design (OD), influencing the development of HR policies to support the business direction and addressing issues raised as a result of employee relations issues within services, and will be an integral member of the HR senior management team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CIPD qualified or demonstrable experience of working at qualified level in HR
- Degree / management qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in HR in a management capacity
- Previous NHS Experience
- Experience in delivering strategic plans
- Experience in Employee Relations
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working at HRBP Level
- Experience in Managing large scale change
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NHS long term plan
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marne Cheeseman
- Job title
- Deputy Chief People Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500092129
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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