Band 8a Human Resources Business Partner

Job summary

The Adult and Community Division are seeking a highly experienced, resilient and motivated HR Business Partner to join their complex and fast paced Division.

The Adult Community Division employs around 1,100 dedicated staff. The Division offers a broad range of services to individuals living in Birmingham. The aim of the service is to provide high-quality person-centred care and enhance an individual's quality of life. This may be achieved through preventing admissions to hospital, providing care at home, supporting and facilitating discharge to an individual's home environment and/or supporting in an emergency. It is important that patients and their carers feel reassured and empowered by the service we provide and that they are actively involved in the care we offer, promoting choice and dignity.

Main duties of the job

Post holder will be lead focal point for the HR Team and operational managers within the Adult and Community Division, facilitating effective delivery of health services via the provision of a comprehensive HR service, including workforce planning, complex casework and organisational change programmes and will focus on delivering the "transformation/ organisational change" portfolio within the Division. The successful candidate will be CIPD qualified and will have substantial experience of delivering strategic level HR advice to senior managers and directors in a complex organisation and significant experience of leading on and dealing with organisational change TUPE transfers and complex employee relations issues.

The role includes day to day leadership and management and development of the HR Team and delivering a comprehensive HR service to a complex Division with specific recruitment and retention challenges. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent and achieved CIPD, have a proven track record of delivering on targets, work well under pressure, be highly organised, have excellent communication skills and have significant competence in analysing and presenting data as part of workforce data forums. The candidate will be able to operate in an environment of rapid change and conflicting priorities. Expert knowledge of the full range of HR policies and procedures and excellent working knowledge of employment legislation is essential.

About us

The post holder will support the ongoing development and progression of a "Just and Learning Culture", as part of the Trust's management of conduct within its Disciplinary Policy promoting the Trust's values and, in particular, its "Equality and Inclusion agenda" and the NHS People Promise. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge of operational HR, preferably within the NHS, including the management of complex casework and organisational change providing best practice advice and experience of providing advice to a Divisional group and infrastructure / Divisional Leadership Board on the full range of HR issues.