HR Business Partner (8A) Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health trusts in the country providing mental health, specialist learning disability, secure and forensic services for Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex and specialist community child and adolescent mental health services. We care for people of all ages, from children and young people through to older people with conditions such as dementia.
We aim to improve people's lives by providing high quality care and the best possible experience of our services.
We are seeking to recruit a proactive and enthusiastic HR Business Partner to join our Workforce Directorate on a permanent basis. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to deliver joint strategic workforce support to Corporate Support Services and Estates and Facilities with a workforce of circa 1000 WTE employees.
The role is, 37.5 hours per week, working Monday to Friday.
This role will provide strategic workforce advice, contributing to the achievement of Service and Trust objectives with the key emphasis on maintaining Trust values to ensure we deliver better services to patients through a positive working environment.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will require the following skills, experience and abilities:
* Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (level 7)
* Experience of dealing with complex HR operational and strategic issues.
* Experience in aligning business, operational and strategic needs.
* Experience of having provided strategic HR advice on complex ER cases including restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, ACAS Early Conciliation, grievances, and disciplinaries.
* Experience in supporting senior managers and directors at formal hearings and appeals.
* Ability to coach and guide managers to effective solutions.
* Ability to align the HR strategy to departmental objectives and business plans.
* A positive attitude towards change and having personally delivered major change initiatives.
* Experience in managing and supporting Senior HR Advisors with complex ER cases.
* Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility and develop effective working relationships.
* Ability to influence and challenge the senior management team and leadership, to support the delivery of people plans and service delivery objectives.
* Ability to work collaboratively as part of the Employee Relations team.
* Ability to lead on corporate HR projects.
About us
In return we offer:
* Occupational Health
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Family Friendly
* Staff Discounts and Benefits
* Staff Networks
* BME/ BAME staff networks
* Training
* Flexible Working
* Cycle Scheme
* Discount Car Scheme
Job responsibilities
This role will provide strategic workforce advice, contributing to the achievement of Service and Trust objectives with the key emphasis on maintaining Trust values to ensure we deliver better services to patients through a positive working environment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters level or equivalent experience gained through degree and professional HR Qualifications
* CIPD Registration
Knowledge/Experience
* In-depth experience of Human Resources Management (HRM)
* Experience of HR Business Partnering in a complex organisational environment
* Lived experience of mental health issues
Communication/Relationship skills:
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
* Communicates very complex/sensitive information where barriers to acceptance may cause a hostile and emotive atmosphere.
Analytical & Judgement skills
* Analyses a range of very complex employment situations which require deciding on the way forward where no precedent exists or options conflict.
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.
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