Senior People Business Partner - Maternity Cover until April 2027

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity to join our new team of Senior People Business Partners on a secondment or fixed term basis, covering maternity leave until April 2027.

You will be responsible for providing high-quality strategic and operational workforce support, ensuring our people management practices reflect best practice and uphold our commitment to delivering an exceptional staff experience.

You will be a values-led professional who is passionate about fairness, equity and continuous improvement. With a strong focus on staff engagement and wellbeing, you will champion initiatives that ensure colleagues feel supported, listened to and able to thrive, even in the most challenging times.

You will help drive key workforce priorities that support our ambition to be the Best Place to Work. By role-modelling our Oxleas values - We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen and We Care - you will embed these principles in everyday interactions across the organisation.

Working collaboratively with the wider People Teams you will play a central role in leading organisational change, strengthening culture, improving team dynamics, enhancing recruitment practices and progressing equality plans. By fostering effective team engagement you will help improve the experience of staff within your Directorate/s, ensuring a sustained focus on wellbeing, psychological safety, engagement and retention.

Important Sponsorship Information: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post

Main duties of the job

You will ensure our people practices deliver high-quality, consistent support to managers and staff across the Trust, enabling excellent care while meeting all legal and statutory requirements.

You will take a proactive and supportive approach to developing and investing in your team, empowering them to provide a high-performing, responsive and engaging service.

We understand how challenging it can be for colleagues involved in HR processes. You will support staff and managers to address issues constructively and at the earliest opportunity, ensuring a strong emphasis on early intervention and resolution.

You will provide coaching and facilitation to managers, helping them develop stronger leadership competence, confidence and behaviours.

You will lead the development and delivery of workforce plans for your Directorate/s, aligned to the Trust's overarching Strategy. These plans will be tailored to the needs of the service, supporting delivery of excellent patient care, financial sustainability, and a positive staff experience.

You will provide specialist advice to managers on all aspects of People matters, ensuring a strong focus on data-driven decisions, consistency and clarity of approach.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pinewood House

Pinewood Place

Dartford

DA2 7WG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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