Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a HR professional to join Team QEH as a Human Resources Business Partner
The post holder will report to the Head of Workforce ER and HR Business Partners providing support in organising, leading and overseeing the delivery of HR project activity to influence the workforce agenda in a positive manner.
The post holder will work closely with the HR services and particularly the HR Business Partner team. This role will play an integral part in providing HR leadership and subject matter expertise to a number of Trust-wide transformation projects.
Main duties of the job
- provide autonomous, high quality, professional HR and organisational development services, ensuring up to date, expert, consistent advice, support and practice.
- play an integral part in ensuring the management, analysis and communication of key people data and management information.Human Resources Special Projects Manager
- establish and manage the project, setting deadlines and timelines, coordinating the schedule of staff and monitoring the project's progress from start to finish. This will cover a full range of staff groups including both medical and non-medical staff
- provide HR project support to managers in recruitment and selection, performance management, learning and development, succession planning, staff benefits, human resources information systems (HRIS) and HR data and analytics.
- support the Head of Workforce ER and HRBPs on meeting the Trust's Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
- provide advice to all managers within the Trust regarding all aspects of HR projects for all categories of staff.
- take a lead HR role to support HR aspects relating to overall implementation plans, evaluate the potential impact of workplace changes on to processes and postholders and advise on consultation and engagement requirements and legal context to enable effective decision making and delivery.
About us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech.
In February 2022, the significant progress that has been made at QEH in just three years since 2019 was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures). We have an absolute determination to continuously improve care and services for our patients and their families.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please click the "apply now" button to see the Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please click the "apply now" button to see the Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Educated to degree level
- CIPD professional qualifications
- Masters level or equivalent vocational experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Chartered Fellow of the CIPD
Experience
Essential
- Relevant senior professional experience in an HR role in the NHS
- Extensive experience of complex case management
- Proven leadership skills
- HR services planning, objective setting and performance management experience
- Experience of managing HR support staff
- Substantial experience of managing and successfully concluding HR case work
- Demonstrate achievements in HR leading to improvements in staff performance
- Track record of delivering HR solutions and improvements for clients
- Experience of translating client business plans into effective workforce improvement interventions
- Good understanding of the key issues facing the trust and the wider health economy
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of HR professional issues including national and local policy and legislative developments
- Ability to work effectively as part of both a client and HR team
- Experience of working collaboratively and building effective partnerships internally and externally
Desirable
- Experience of successful delivery of HR services in a challenging environment
- Experience of successful professional interventions to improve employee performance, productivity and workplace attendance
- Experience of preparing casework for Employment Tribunal cases
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of healthcare Trade Unions and professional associations
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of creative, strategic thinking
- Able to work in a complex environment and manage conflicts through to resolution
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities, work to pressure and meet deadlines
- Demonstrate empathy with Trust staff
- Demonstrate personal resilience, confidence and self-belief
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to assess risks and successfully address them
- Credibility and integrity across all professional groups and with clients
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential
- Educated to degree level
- CIPD professional qualifications
- Masters level or equivalent vocational experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Chartered Fellow of the CIPD
Experience
Essential
- Relevant senior professional experience in an HR role in the NHS
- Extensive experience of complex case management
- Proven leadership skills
- HR services planning, objective setting and performance management experience
- Experience of managing HR support staff
- Substantial experience of managing and successfully concluding HR case work
- Demonstrate achievements in HR leading to improvements in staff performance
- Track record of delivering HR solutions and improvements for clients
- Experience of translating client business plans into effective workforce improvement interventions
- Good understanding of the key issues facing the trust and the wider health economy
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of HR professional issues including national and local policy and legislative developments
- Ability to work effectively as part of both a client and HR team
- Experience of working collaboratively and building effective partnerships internally and externally
Desirable
- Experience of successful delivery of HR services in a challenging environment
- Experience of successful professional interventions to improve employee performance, productivity and workplace attendance
- Experience of preparing casework for Employment Tribunal cases
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of healthcare Trade Unions and professional associations
Skills, abilities, and knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of creative, strategic thinking
- Able to work in a complex environment and manage conflicts through to resolution
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities, work to pressure and meet deadlines
- Demonstrate empathy with Trust staff
- Demonstrate personal resilience, confidence and self-belief
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to assess risks and successfully address them
- Credibility and integrity across all professional groups and with clients
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).
