Senior People Business Partner
The closing date is 09 November 2025
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 to support our care pathways, with a focus on developing our people practices.
Operating as an integral and embedded member of the care pathway 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 initiatives and programmes for their allocated care pathway.
Main duties of the job
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 assigned Care Delivery Pathways (CDP).
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.
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.
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.
Details
Date posted
29 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year pa pro rata (Subject to Banding Outcome)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
270-TG387-CORP-A
Job locations
St Mary's Hospital
Kettering
NN15 7PW
Employer details
Employer name
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address
St Mary's Hospital
Kettering
NN15 7PW
Employer's website
https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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