Workforce Business Partner

Overview

As a Workforce Business Partner embedded within Operational Groups, you will drive the People Strategy and improve workforce performance. You’ll lead absence reduction, partner with Health, Wellbeing, and unions, and provide expert HR guidance across the employee lifecycle. You’ll champion equity, diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety while shaping leadership capability through targeted training. Your data insights will guide strategic decisions and enhance staff experience, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• good rate of pay and pension
• extensive range of discounts
• health and wellbeing support
• flexible working
• car leasing service
• opportunities to develop within NHS-aligned services

Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders to implement the People Strategy and boost workforce performance
• Lead sickness absence reduction through data-driven interventions
• Collaborate with Occupational Health, Wellbeing and Union representatives on fair, preventative practices
• Provide expert HR guidance across the full employee lifecycle (ER, performance, change, development)
• Champion equity, diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety
• Design and deliver training on absence management and leadership capability
• Utilise workforce data to generate insights that inform strategic decisions and improve staff experience

Key requirements

• CIPD Level 5 qualification (Level 7 desirable)
• Extensive HR experience in a fast-paced, operational environment
• Experience in unionised settings with negotiation skills
• Line management or mentoring experience
• Strong data-driven decision-making and HR metrics interpretation
• Excellent communication, negotiation and report-writing skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of UK employment law and best practices
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing

• strong communication
• influencing skills
• relationship-building
• data analysis of HR metrics (absence, turnover, engagement)
• training design and facilitation
• report-writing and interpretation of HR data

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