Senior People Business Partner

Job summary

Are you an experienced senior people leader looking for a new challenge? We are pleased to be recruiting a Senior People Business Partner for Secured services, with a focus on supporting the expansion of our Prisons portfolio of services over a 2 year period due to time limited funding.

Operating as an integral and embedded member of the turnaround team, the Senior HR Business Partner is responsible for the provision of high quality strategic and operational People 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 designed to deliver culture change and will also be designated strategic lead on Trust-wide workforce initiatives and programmes

Main duties of the job

This post holder will place a pivotal role as we bring new Secured Services into team NHFT. This role will be a highly visible, inclusive and collaborative leader, ensuring delivery of the Trust's mission of "We make a difference together". They will provide people advice in all matters relating to the service within the Secured and Specialist Care Delivery Pathway (CDP). This post will report operationally to secured services and professionally into the people team, working collaboratively with colleagues across the Secured and Specialist CDP and turnaround team.

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of highly specialist HR advice on people issues and so must be able to quickly build relationships with all stakeholders and apply their expert people 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.

About us

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. Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire

Negotiable

TBC

NN15 7PW

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire

Negotiable

TBC

NN15 7PW

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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