Strategic HR Business Partner: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 57,528 to 64,750 £ / Year

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a strategic HR professional who enjoys influencing senior leaders, solving complex challenges and driving organisational improvement?

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Strategic HR Business Partner to join our People and Organisational Development team.

This is a pivotal role working with senior operational and clinical leaders to shape workforce strategy, support transformation and improve organisational performance.

We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking, curiosity and analytical insight with a compassionate, values-led approach. You’ll use workforce data, organisational diagnostics and evidence-based interventions to help leaders improve performance, strengthen culture and deliver better outcomes for our people, services and patients.

Through our Being Humber approach, we are committed to creating a culture where colleagues feel valued, supported and empowered to deliver outstanding care, while maintaining a strong focus on productivity, improvement and sustainability.

As a trusted advisor, you’ll influence decision-making, provide constructive challenge and build effective relationships across the organisation. In return, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in a Trust committed to Caring, Learning and Growing.

If you’re passionate about workforce leadership, organisational effectiveness and helping people and services thrive, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

o Act as HR Lead for the long-term business goals and outcomes for workforce for the Trusto Act as HR Lead to support the delivery of divisional and corporate workforce plans ensuring excellent patient care and financial stabilityo Act as People and OD lead for transformation programmes, ensuring workforce and OD interventions are fully aligned to service redesign and delivery outcomeso Drive divisional performance improvement through the use of workforce data, benchmarking and targeted interventiono Ensure organisational development approaches including leadership, team effectiveness and culture are aligned to addressing performance, productivity and quality challengeso Take the designated lead on various Trust-wide workforce initiatives and programmes with responsibility for development and implementationo Build and maintain effective relationships and be recognised as the trusted advisor and lead contact for all strategic issues within their designated areao Hold services to account for delivery of agreed workforce and performance metrics, supporting recovery and improvement plans where requiredo Provide professional and comprehensive workforce information to inform senior management teamso Provide specialist HR advice and business-focused interventionso Provide innovative solutions to support workforce aspects of major change programmes including TUPEo Maintain close working relationships within the People and OD team

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

  • Educated to Masters Level in HR Management or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of areas e.g strategic HR, workforce planning, employment law, leadership, management, finance, employee relations, training and development and organisational development
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge across human resources and organisational/service development needs/priorities
  • Current excellent knowledge of employment legislation, case law and good HR practice

Experience

Essential

  • HR professional with Significant post qualification experience in a complex organisation
  • Experience of managing complex/ strategic projects

Desirable

  • Experience of working with a business partner model

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at local, regional and national level
  • Analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear and concise manner

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 September 2026

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