People Partner

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000

Job description

All our hospitals have their own unique identities while sharing the same standards and values

You can shape your story with us

Whether you’re looking to gain experience in a large, fast-paced hospital or get out into the community, we have a range of opportunities that allows you to build your entire career in one trust.

For us, every day is different. We provide care to a diverse population of 2.5 million across east London – that’s 6,000 people every day, speaking over 60 different languages. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to ensuring that people living in east London live healthy lives.

Main area: People - RLH & MEH
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: 12 months (Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months)
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Flexible working

Job ref: 259-7100918RLH

Site: The Royal London Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/2025 23:59

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious People Partner to join us here at the Royal London and Mile End Hospital site, for a period of 12 months covering maternity leave. We are a busy and fast-paced service, with a wide-ranging people agenda planned for the upcoming years. A key focus will be supporting the service in how it supports its staff, working collaboratively with the site Wellbeing team to achieve this, as well as supporting the service in improving workforce productivity and making the best possible use of the resources it has.

The successful candidate will have excellent people skills, being able to work autonomously, be pro-active in their thinking and be confident in presenting new ways of working. Stakeholder management is key in this role and the post holder will be able to demonstrate experience of influencing senior leaders and gaining their support for the people agenda. The individual will form part of a high-performing people team and it will be important that they are able to work well and contribute to the team's efforts in achieving the people priorities for the upcoming year.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Think strategically and provide Workforce and OD support and advice, providing the professional HR interface with the Trust’s workforce systems.
• Fully understand the business and support RLH & MEH in developing its culture and improving service quality, patient safety, and developing a high-performing customer-focused workforce.
• Be an integral member of the RLH & MEH People Team delivering a comprehensive, professional and high-quality People service to Trust corporate directorates in support of agreed strategic and business plans.
• Provide professional high-quality strategic HR advice to RLH & MEH managers.
• Use workforce data and analytics to support delivery and measure the effectiveness of Workforce and OD interventions and policies and understand how to make further improvements.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

• Senior HR professional with substantial experience of working at a senior level in a large, complex, multi-sited organisation in a highly unionised environment.
• Demonstrable generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across the range of HR functions.
• Demonstrable track record of providing specialist HR advice to services and managers in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Experience in the public sector in a large complex organisation with union recognition.
• Experience of working with business performance metrics/data to guide and direct strategy.
• Experience of interpreting and applying HR knowledge to workforce management.
• Experience of supporting change management within a large complex environment.
• Experience of coaching and developing staff.
• Experience in preparing and delivering training for a diverse user group.
• Experience of providing direct customer service, both verbally and in writing.

Skills

• Proven effective problem-solving ability.
• Leadership - fostering powerful and productive working relationships internally and externally. Must be able to make an impact at all levels within the organisation to motivate and enthuse others.
• Strong influencing and communication skills, using a range of techniques to best effect. Able to deliver messages effectively at all levels.
• Change leadership; creating meaning, innovation, transformation, and problem-solving.
• Able to influence, negotiate, and persuade regarding complex or sensitive issues.
• Confident in facilitating, challenging others, whilst at the same time maintaining and building a professional relationship.
• Able to input data and manipulate data.
• Ability to deal with sensitive customer enquiries from occasionally irate or distressed staff.

Knowledge

• Current excellent knowledge of employment legislation, case law, and good HR practice.
• Expert knowledge of key current issues in human resources and the ability to interpret and apply the knowledge to workforce strategies.
• An understanding of NHS workforce strategies and NHS policy.

Qualifications

• Degree level education or relevant experience at this level.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Evidence of continued learning/development.

Other

• Ability to cope with frequent distressing and emotional circumstances.
• Ability to cope with unpredictable and intense situations.
• Proven ability to effectively manage a range of situations that may evoke a strong emotional reaction.
• Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines with frequent interruptions.
• Proactive, versatile, and problem-solving approach. Able to seek and exploit opportunities.
• Awareness and respect for colleagues, patients, and relatives' cultural, religious, and emotional needs and beliefs.
• Ability to travel within the locality and on occasion wider afield if required for business purposes.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.