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Job overview

Are you an experienced senior people leader looking for a new challenge? We are pleased to be recruiting a Senior People Specialist for Corporate Service, with a focus on developing our employee relations practices.

Operating as an integral and embedded member of the senior team, the Senior HR Business Partner is responsible for the provision of high quality strategic and operational HR leadership to ensure best practice people management within their areas of responsibility, across the wider HR function and across the Trust.

The post holder will have responsibility for leading a programme for change for employee relations designed to deliver culture change. The Senior People Specialist will also be designated strategic lead on various Trust-wide workforce initiatives and programmes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take a corporate role in driving the HR agenda forward throughout the Trust, working in partnership with managers, staff side representatives, staff and other partners in ensuring that the Trust is an employer of choice and adopting excellent employment practice. They will be responsible for the provision of highly specialist HR advice on people issues which impact across the organisation and so must be able to quickly build relationships with all stakeholders and apply their expert employee relations knowledge in the role.

We are looking for candidates who have significant and successful senior HR leadership experience in a complex unionised environment subsequent to obtaining CIPD qualification. Candidates must have recent experience at a senior level in the NHS or relevant environment with proven track record of change management and have the ability to balance a multi-faceted workload with competing demands. This will include management of a team / function.  

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

NHFT actively encourages a strong balance between work and home life and supports staff with flexible and agile working practices to ensure staff can create a balance that is right for them. Agile working is promoted within this role, with systems to enable home-working in place and flexible working practices encouraged. The HR team are based at St Mary’s Hospital, though are working remotely from home now using video conferencing, and all appropriate technology in order to fulfil the role requirements.