Head of Human Resources

Overview

As a senior HR leader, you will shape and deliver a modern, high-performing HR service within an evolving NHS landscape. You will partner with senior leaders and stakeholders to anticipate workforce challenges, drive transformation, and embed a restorative, inclusive culture. You’ll blend employment law expertise with innovative practices and technology to improve how HR services are delivered. This role offers a strategic, influential platform to impact care quality and staff wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering employee relations, organisational change, workforce transformation, performance management, sickness absence and complex casework
• Provide trusted, strategic workforce leadership to Directors, senior leaders and managers
• Influence and build credibility through effective stakeholder management and partnerships
• Support organisational priorities and navigate complex workforce challenges to deliver positive outcomes
• Promote organisational health, inclusion, wellbeing and a restorative just culture
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across the Cornwall system to shape modern people services

Key requirements

• Strategic business partner experience
• Experience developing and implementing organisational-wide policies
• Significant experience in change management
• Experience leading workforce transformation
• Postgraduate-level HR knowledge and ongoing professional development
• Accredited mediation qualification
• Current UK professional registration
• Rehabilitation of Offenders Act considerations for DBS check

• Relationship-building
• Negotiation
• Communication
• Employment law
• Workforce practice
• Organisational change

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