HR Business Partner

Overview

As HealthSet HR Business Partner, you will provide strategic workforce leadership across four NHS trusts to support the digital transformation programme. You’ll partner with senior leaders and HR teams to shape workforce planning, OD, and analytics for programme delivery. The role requires building cross‑organisational relationships and guiding workforce solutions across boundaries. You will also supervise the HealthSet Workforce Lead and Coordinator to align priorities. This is a high‑visibility role with travel and on‑site presence across trusts.

Pay / Benefits

• Band 8b salary: 66,582–77,368 per year
• Permanent contract
• Full-time role
• Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
• On-site presence across Trusts

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR leadership across workforce planning, recruitment and retention, organisational development, employee engagement, leadership development, workforce transformation, organisational design and workforce analytics
• Advise and challenge senior leaders to develop workforce solutions enabling programme objectives
• Collaborate across four partner Trusts to ensure a consistent, effective workforce approach
• Line manage and support HealthSet Workforce Lead and HealthSet Workforce Coordinator to coordinate workforce activity
• Build trusted, cross‑organisational relationships and use workforce data to inform decisions

Key requirements

• Substantial generalist and senior HR experience advising senior managers on change management
• Experience leading and delivering OD and/or workforce projects
• Experience developing and implementing OD and workforce strategy
• Experience managing complex and sensitive employment relations issues
• Knowledge of NHS workforce agenda
• Ability to influence and lead across organisations; willingness to travel and be on site across Trusts

• Relationship building across organisations
• Influence and leadership by example
• Strategic thinking and advisory capability
• Workforce analytics
• Change management
• NHS workforce knowledge

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