Job summary
Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a flexible working opportunity that allows you to make a real impact? Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is seeking 2 full time HR Business Partners (HRBP) to join our Operational HR Teams within the Famillies and Specialist Service and Medicine Divisons.
As HRBP, you will provide senior-level Workforce and Organisational Development support across the assigned Division. Working closely with divisional leaders to align HR strategies with key service delivery objectives.You will partner with the Senior Management Team and lead a dedicated HR team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality HR services that support workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, and staff engagement.
Interview will be taking place on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th December 2025.
Main duties of the job
CHFT is nationally recognised for its innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional care. The Trust has received national recognition been highlighted in several high-profile platforms, including:
- Value for Money Excellence:Recognised by NHS Providers for our outstanding ability to deliver value for money while ensuring high-quality patient care (Providers Deliver: Achieving value for money (nhsproviders.org));
- Tackling NHS Waiting Lists:Featured in Sky News for our success in significantly reducing waiting lists, setting a benchmark for other NHS trusts across the country (This NHS trust got a grip of its waiting list - can others around the country do the same? | UK News | Sky News);
- Health Service Award for Performance Recovery (2023):Proudly shortlisted for this prestigious award, showcasing CHFT's journey to tackle its pandemic elective waiting lists.
Join a forward-thinking, high-performing trust where your work will have a genuine impact on both staff and patient outcomes.
About us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop strong business relationships with divisional leaders and managers to implement workforce plans and HR strategies aligned with the Division's objectives.
- Lead a dedicated HR team in the Division.
- Provide expert advice on complex HR issues, including employee relations, employment law, and workforce development.
- Oversee HR metrics, such as sickness absence, recruitment, and agency spend, to support service efficiency.
- Champion Trust values and best practices, promoting collaboration and innovation across HR functions.
What Were Looking For:
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced HR leaders who excel in collaboration and can effectively manage key HR functions. You will bring experience from a senior HR role, ideally within the NHS or a similar large, complex organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop strong business relationships with divisional leaders and managers to implement workforce plans and HR strategies aligned with the Division's objectives.
- Lead a dedicated HR team in the Division.
- Provide expert advice on complex HR issues, including employee relations, employment law, and workforce development.
- Oversee HR metrics, such as sickness absence, recruitment, and agency spend, to support service efficiency.
- Champion Trust values and best practices, promoting collaboration and innovation across HR functions.
What Were Looking For:
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced HR leaders who excel in collaboration and can effectively manage key HR functions. You will bring experience from a senior HR role, ideally within the NHS or a similar large, complex organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level acquired through degree and professional HR qualifications or able to demonstrate appropriate equivalent experience of highly specialist knowledge in a HR Business Partner role to masters level.
- Member of the Chartered institute of personnel and Development.
- Ability to demonstrate completion of leadership courses and have relevant experience working at a senior level providing HR advice
Desirable
- Advanced Microsoft Office qualification in Excel / Access
- Accredited coach/mentor
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior HR role in a large diverse organisation including experience of HR service delivery and performance management
- Clear understanding of the major issues affecting the NHS HR agenda
- Experience of contributing to strategy development
- Experience of delivering coaching / training to managers
- Significant experience / knowledge of employment law and its application in employment practice
- Experience of leading the management of change
- Experience of negotiating policy development / T&C's with trade union reps, full time officers
- Demonstrable evidence of continuous development
- Able to build credibility quickly and to work with all grades of staff within the Trust
Desirable
- Experience of working in a highly unionised environment
- Experience of large scale project management
- Experience of identification and management of workforce efficiencies
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the NHS Health & Wellbeing Agenda
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the Workforce Equality and Diversity Agenda
- OD experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level acquired through degree and professional HR qualifications or able to demonstrate appropriate equivalent experience of highly specialist knowledge in a HR Business Partner role to masters level.
- Member of the Chartered institute of personnel and Development.
- Ability to demonstrate completion of leadership courses and have relevant experience working at a senior level providing HR advice
Desirable
- Advanced Microsoft Office qualification in Excel / Access
- Accredited coach/mentor
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior HR role in a large diverse organisation including experience of HR service delivery and performance management
- Clear understanding of the major issues affecting the NHS HR agenda
- Experience of contributing to strategy development
- Experience of delivering coaching / training to managers
- Significant experience / knowledge of employment law and its application in employment practice
- Experience of leading the management of change
- Experience of negotiating policy development / T&C's with trade union reps, full time officers
- Demonstrable evidence of continuous development
- Able to build credibility quickly and to work with all grades of staff within the Trust
Desirable
- Experience of working in a highly unionised environment
- Experience of large scale project management
- Experience of identification and management of workforce efficiencies
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the NHS Health & Wellbeing Agenda
- Experience / demonstrable knowledge of the Workforce Equality and Diversity Agenda
- OD experience
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
