We are seeking a dynamicSenior HR Business Partner (HRBP)to play a crucial role in shaping and delivering high-impact workforce initiatives. As a strategic leader within theDivisional Management Team, you will drive workforce transformation, ensuring alignment with ourTrust’s strategic objectivesandPeople Strategyto enhance patient care, productivity, and performance.
You will be responsible for the inspiration, motivation, and performance management of teams within the remit of the role. You will lead on all aspects of the people agenda, acting as a trusted partner to Divisional leaders and other senior stakeholders you will support forward planning, transformation, engagement and workforce performance, ensure good HR practice is embedded across the division.
Providing expert HR leadership, you will be partnering and coaching senior leaders to effectively transform services and enable the delivery of high quality care.
To succeed in this role you will have extensive HR leadership experience, ideally within the NHS or a similarly complex organisation, a strong track record of driving workforce transformation and HR initiatives.
Join us to make a real impact on workforce transformation and patient care and we will support you to make a real impact on your career by offering you the opportunity for further qualifications, professional development and career progression.
You will lead the strategic HR/OD provision for the Division, influencing workforce priorities across the Trust and ensuring alignment with regional and national NHS priorities. The Senior HRBP will proactively shape and implement trust-wide workforce transformation initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation, engagement, and inclusion.
Negotiate and influence outcomes for sensitive, complex workforce matters with senior leaders including Divisional Management Team members. Coach and mentor such staff to deliver difficult messages to other staff.
Present complex workforce issues to trust and external audiences, including Employment Tribunals, professional bodies, and trust-wide governance committees, demonstrating expert understanding and rationale for decisions.
The Senior HRBP supports the Senior HR Leadership Team to achieve the trust’s strategic workforce objectives.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025