East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Senior HR Business Partner

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Job summary

We are seeking a dynamic Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) to play a crucial role in shaping and delivering high-impact workforce initiatives. As a strategic leader within the Divisional Management Team, you will drive workforce transformation, ensuring alignment with our Trust's strategic objectives and People Strategy to enhance patient care, productivity, and performance.

You will be responsible for the inspiration, motivation, and performance management of teams within the remit of the role. You will lead on all aspects of the people agenda, acting as a trusted partner to Divisional leaders and other senior stakeholders you will support forward planning, transformation, engagement and workforce performance, ensure good HR practice is embedded across the division.

Providing expert HR leadership, you will be partnering and coaching senior leaders to effectively transform services and enable the delivery of high quality care across all sites in the organisation and will therefore be expected to be on site a minimum of 3 days per week.

To succeed in this role you will have extensive HR leadership experience, ideally within the NHS or a similarly complex organisation, a strong track record of driving workforce transformation and HR initiatives.

Join us to make a real impact on workforce transformation and patient care and we will support you to make a real impact on your career by offering you the opportunity for further qualifications, professional development and career progression.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the strategic HR/OD provision for the Division, influencing workforce priorities across the Trust and ensuring alignment with regional and national NHS priorities. The Senior HRBP will proactively shape and implement trust-wide workforce transformation initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation, engagement, and inclusion.

Negotiate and influence outcomes for sensitive, complex workforce matters with senior leaders including Divisional Management Team members. Coach and mentor such staff to deliver difficult messages to other staff.

Present complex workforce issues to trust and external audiences, including Employment Tribunals, professional bodies, and trust-wide governance committees, demonstrating expert understanding and rationale for decisions.

The Senior HRBP supports the Senior HR Leadership Team to achieve the trust's strategic workforce objectives.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Details

Date posted

05 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR2294-24

Job locations

Colchester/Ipswich

Colchester/Ipswich

CO5 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of working in an HR function at a senior level in a large complex organisation
  • Experience in developing, implementing and monitoring clear measures of success
  • Extensive experience demonstrating competence across complex employee relations matters, including performance management and direct involvement in highly complex employee relations cases

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an HR function in the NHS
  • Experience of working in a unionised environment

Knowledge

Essential

  • Deep understanding of NHS People Plan priorities and workforce implications, alongside advanced knowledge of trust-wide governance frameworks
  • Sound knowledge, understanding and direct experience of best practice in people management issues
  • Specialist and expert knowledge of agenda for change terms and conditions

Personal skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Proven problem solving skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPD qualified or equivalent demonstrable HR skills and experience
  • Masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of working in an HR function at a senior level in a large complex organisation
  • Experience in developing, implementing and monitoring clear measures of success
  • Extensive experience demonstrating competence across complex employee relations matters, including performance management and direct involvement in highly complex employee relations cases

Desirable

  • Experience of working in an HR function in the NHS
  • Experience of working in a unionised environment

Knowledge

Essential

  • Deep understanding of NHS People Plan priorities and workforce implications, alongside advanced knowledge of trust-wide governance frameworks
  • Sound knowledge, understanding and direct experience of best practice in people management issues
  • Specialist and expert knowledge of agenda for change terms and conditions

Personal skills

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Proven problem solving skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPD qualified or equivalent demonstrable HR skills and experience
  • Masters level or equivalent demonstrable 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester/Ipswich

Colchester/Ipswich

CO5 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester/Ipswich

Colchester/Ipswich

CO5 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Assistant Director

Derry Tucker

derry.tucker@esneft.nhs.uk

07763573081

Details

Date posted

05 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR2294-24

Job locations

Colchester/Ipswich

Colchester/Ipswich

CO5 4JL


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