Job summary
- Main area
- Human Resourcing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (until 31 March 2027. Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-EC859-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE office base (You will be expected to attend the office for 40% of your time)
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
HR Business Partner
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Job overview
The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it’s a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We’re delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We’re looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for an experienced, credible HR leader who is ready to support the New Hospital Programme.
As our HR & OD Business Partner, you’ll deliver a high quality, professional service to managers, staff and the New Hospitals Programme (NHP) Executive Team. You’ll play a key role in leadership and team development, supporting culture change and strengthening the professionalism of the New Hospitals Programme.
You will:
- Lead the delivery of an efficient, effective and strategic HR & OD service for the New Hospitals Programme
- Develop and implement key HR & OD strategies, plans and procedures
- Provide expert advice on complex HR and OD matters, ensuring timely, safe and productive outcomes
- Drive continual improvement of policies, systems and processes in line with best practice and legislation
Partner with leaders to deliver plans covering talent, performance, resourcing, engagement and capability - Work autonomously, managing your own priorities and commitments
- Lead the development of local workforce plans aligned to organisational objectives
- Monitor progress, ensure accountability and oversee delivery within agreed timescales and budgets
- Shape future processes, facilitate discussions and embed best practice across the organisation
If you’re passionate, driven and ready to make a meaningful impact, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of our workforce and our programme.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification, or equivalent, in a relevant discipline, i.e. Human Resources, Organisational Development, Business Studies, etc.
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered MCIPD) or able to evidence having commenced the upgrading process with CIPD or willing to undertake accreditation
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a senior HR and OD professional role, working in a customer-focused and face paced environment
- Experienced in HR and OD business partnering, with the ability to translate organisational objectives into clear HR and OD deliverables and project, providing constructive challenge and support to line managers at all levels to improve line management standards.
- Experienced and confident in working with trade unions and adopting a partnership ethos and approach to workplace employment relations
- Experience of budgetary responsibilities, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive the organisational agenda
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to build and maintain partnerships, internal and external to the organisation.
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to receive, analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio
- Provide highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Confidently coach and influence board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new market opportunities.
- Strategic thinking – ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems before they arise.
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chloe Lincoln-Todd
- Job title
- Resourcing Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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