Assistant Strategic People & OD Business Partner

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great flexible working opportunities

Lease car scheme and Home Electronics

Generous annual leave and pension

Job summary

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Assistant Assistant Strategic People & OD Business Partner to support the Strategic People & OD function across the Trust System in Liverpool.

Working with the Strategic People & OD Business Partner, you will help shape workforce strategy, planning and leadership development, delivering improvements and enabling an inclusive, high-performing culture across services from community sites to hospital teams.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level and Masters-level or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the Strategic People & OD Business Partner to develop proactive partnering across the Trust System.
• Assist with workforce planning, leadership development and engagement initiatives.
• Contribute to People Services projects and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Provide timely guidance on employment terms, policies and staff management practices.

Skills

Strategic partnering

People & OD

Workforce planning

Leadership development

Education

Degree level plus Masters-level equivalent

Job description

Employer Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Town Liverpool Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

Assistant Strategic People & OD Business Partner

NHS AfC: Band 7

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic and proactive individual to join our People Team, supporting the Specialist & Acute Care System.

Working closely with the Strategic People & OD Business Partner, you will play a key role in providing strategic workforce and organisational development support across a diverse portfolio of services. This is an exciting opportunity to influence workforce transformation, support leaders to drive positive change, and help create an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The role will focus on delivering workforce improvements across the system, supporting leaders to address complex people challenges, and driving initiatives that enhance staff experience and organisational effectiveness. You will work collaboratively with operational and clinical leaders on a range of workforce priorities including equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, workforce planning and resourcing solutions in areas experiencing recruitment and retention challenges.

Alongside your system-focused responsibilities, you will contribute to key People Services projects across the Trust, helping to shape and deliver innovative workforce solutions that support our strategic objectives.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant People & OD Business Partner will support the Strategic People & OD Business Partner to provide a strategic organisation development (OD) and workforce focus and direction for the Trust System.

The post holder will support on all aspects of workforce planning and resource availability, leadership development, engagement and people management practices for the Trust System. The post holder will support with the development and implementation of initiatives which directly support the delivery of the Trust Strategy and add value to the overall performance of the Trust. They will develop excellent working relationships with senior and multiprofessional colleagues using highly credible and knowledgeable expertise in the application of people management and OD.

Working for our organisation

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principal job duties or main task s:

• Support the Strategic People & OD Business Partner to develop a proactive and professional business partnering service, working closely with senior management and leadership teams.
• Support the Strategic People & OD Business Partner with the embedding of workforce planning and good people management practices within the team and across the organisation, which could include actions to increase engagement with the workforce, the facilitation of workforce redesign and new ways of working, management of organisational change people related issues, performance management and monitoring of workforce targets and developing managerial and team capabilities.
• Support the implementation of OD and workforce improvement initiatives.
• Support the People Services Team with the implementation of activity which directly supports the delivery of the People & OD strategy and adds value to the overall performance of the Trust System.
• Operate in and fully contribute to a continuous improvement environment which measurably delivers high quality, professional people practice.
• Provide effective, timely guidance and advice to managers and leaders on employment terms and conditions, policies and procedures and employment law matters, ensuring a consistent approach Trust wide.
• Supporting the implementation of all People & OD policies and practices.
• Further tasks are included within People Services, workforce modernisation, transformation and organisational change, policy, terms and conditions and risk management, workforce development, performance and strategies and planning.

Person specification

Knowledge, Skill & Experience

• Educated to degree level and additional qualification equivalent to Masters level or relevant equivalent level experience

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.