Job summary
The HR Business Partner will be responsible for: - The provision of high quality strategic and operational workforce support. - Ensuring best practice people management within their areas of responsibility and across the wider workforce function. - HR expertise to business decision making and develop innovative people solutions to support business plans and strategy. This will encompass our people having a great employee experience. - Liaising with other HR colleagues to maintain effective communication links, ensuring that best practice is shared and developed and to facilitate cross-cover of HR services. - Working in a manner consistent with the NHS Management Code of Conduct and the CIPD Code of Professional Conduct. - Ensuring the operational and transformational Human Resources services are aligned within Divisional and corporate areas, to promote partnership working and the delivery of a proactive and customer centered service, which improves both the service and the patient experience.
Main duties of the job
Join North Manchester General Hospital's HR and OD team, as a senior member leading on a number of exciting workforce projects across our services and with regular opportunities to enhance your CPD portfolio and career. You will oversee ER cases and help to lead initiatives that support the delivery of the People Plan. This includes enhancing the experience of our people through a range of deliverables of the People Plan: Developing workforce supply strategies, workforce transformation and our ongoing deployment of workforce systems. While you will of course have the pre-requisite skills and knowledge, a 'can do', agile and innovative approach is essential. Experience of working in a large complex group structure is desirable. You must be willing to travel to any of our hospitals on an occasional basis. Interviews are scheduled for 21 or 26 July. There is an expectation, the successful candidate can commit to start in September 2023.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) is a vibrant and diverse hospital that is passionate about patient care. NMGH is located in Crumpsall, 3.5 miles north of Manchester City Centre. We offer local general hospital care alongside highly specialised regional and national services. We are transforming the site to create a new health campus with ambitions to create:
- A modern, sustainable and digitally connected working environment
- State of the art wards, theatres, offices and clinics
- A new Education Hub offering training and career development resources
- A new Wellbeing Hub, caring for you as you care for others
This truly is an exciting time to join us.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) is a vibrant and diverse hospital that is passionate about patient care. NMGH is located in Crumpsall, 3.5 miles north of Manchester City Centre. We offer local general hospital care alongside highly specialised regional and national services. We are transforming the site to create a new health campus with ambitions to create:
- A modern, sustainable and digitally connected working environment
- State of the art wards, theatres, offices and clinics
- A new Education Hub offering training and career development resources
- A new Wellbeing Hub, caring for you as you care for others
This truly is an exciting time to join us.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management or equivalent relevant professional qualification
- Sound understanding of Employment Law, contractual terms and conditions, HR Policy and Practice and employment issues
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Extensive operational experience gained in a progressive HR function
- Substantial experienced in leading and managing people
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively and get buy in from stakeholders.
- Or a willingness to work towards or is currently studying
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management or equivalent relevant professional qualification
- Sound understanding of Employment Law, contractual terms and conditions, HR Policy and Practice and employment issues
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Extensive operational experience gained in a progressive HR function
- Substantial experienced in leading and managing people
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively and get buy in from stakeholders.
- Or a willingness to work towards or is currently studying
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
