HR Business Partner

University Hospitals Dorset; England; Remote; GBP 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Dorset is seeking an experienced HealthSet HR Business Partner to provide strategic HR leadership across workforce planning, recruitment and development for the HealthSet programme. The role spans four NHS organisations, driving the people and workforce agenda required to support successful delivery of the programme.

You will work with HealthSet programme leadership, HR Business Partners and senior leaders to influence workforce solutions, engage stakeholders, and coordinate

Qualifications

• Master's level education or equivalent experience.
• Membership of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Fellow of CIPD Coaching qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR leadership across workforce planning, recruitment and retention, organisational development and employee engagement.
• Lead leadership development, workforce transformation, organisational design and workforce analytics across the HealthSet programme.
• Advise and challenge senior leaders to develop workforce solutions that enable programme objectives.
• Collaborate across four partner Trusts to ensure a consistent and effective workforce approach.
• Line manage HealthSet Workforce Lead and HealthSet Workforce Coordinator.

Skills

HR leadership

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

OD strategy

Education

Masters level or equivalent

CIPD membership

CPD evidence

CIPD Coaching qualification

Job description

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £500m transformation programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.

We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.

At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.

As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support the preparation of their application. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of your own experience and suitability. Personal integrity is an important part of the recruitment process.

Job overview

Join HealthSet and help shape the workforce behind a major digital transformation

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior HR professional to join the HealthSet programme, working across:

• Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
• Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

HealthSet brings together colleagues across four NHS organisations and this role will provide strategic HR and workforce leadership to the programme.

Working with HealthSet programme leadership, HR Business Partners and senior leaders across the partner Trusts, you will lead and influence the people and workforce agenda required to support successful programme delivery.

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

As the HealthSet HR Business Partner, you will provide strategic HR leadership across workforce planning, recruitment and retention, organisational development, employee engagement, leadership development, workforce transformation, organisational design and workforce analytics.

Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide expert advice, challenge and support to develop workforce solutions that enable the successful delivery of programme objectives.

A key element of the role is working across organisational boundaries. You will build strong relationships across the four partner Trusts and collaborate with HR and People teams to ensure a consistent and effective workforce approach.

You will also provide line management and support to the HealthSet Workforce Lead and HealthSet Workforce Coordinator, helping to coordinate workforce activity and priorities across the programme.

About you

You will be an experienced HR professional with a strong background in workforce strategy, organisational development and change management. You will have experience influencing senior stakeholders, delivering workforce initiatives and supporting service transformation.

You will be skilled at building trusted relationships, working across organisations and using workforce information to support decision-making. Knowledge of the NHS workforce agenda is essential.

This is a highly visible partnership role requiring travel across the HealthSet partner Trusts and an on-site presence.

Working for our organisation

Healthset is a joint programme across four trusts in Dorset and Somerset to deliver a shared electronic health record (EHR) for acute, community and mental health services, working with our system provider, Epic. This once-in-a-generation programme will transform how information is recorded, shared and accessed, enabling colleagues to spend less time working around systems and more time caring.

Ou r teams deliver safe, compassionate care every day, but we still rely on multiple systems, separate records and paper processes. This can mean patients repeating their story and colleagues spending valuable time duplicating work or managing gaps in information. For our digital teams, this means managing multiple legacy systems and data sources to support users to deliver services.

Healthset is our shared response. By introducing one EHR across our organisations, we will support more joined ‑ up working, safer decision-making and better use of information, freeing up more time for care.

This ambitious programme will fundamentally change how health and care is delivered across Dorset and Somerset in a way that is clinically and financially sustainable. We will be guided by doing the right thing for our patients, carers, people and communities, while creating a working environment that better supports our colleagues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
• Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Coaching qualification

Experience

• Substantial generalist and senior HR experience in advising senior managers on best practice HR approaches, particularly relating to change management.
• Experience in successful leading and delivering OD and/or workforce projects
• Experience in developing and implementing OD and Workforce strategy.
• Experience in managing complex and sensitive employment relations issues.

Skills

• Demonstrable knowledge of current thinking on good HR practice on all aspects of HR management.
• Knowledge of current workforce and HR agenda in the NHS
• Ability to relate to managers, understanding different education, approaches, styles and expertise and utilise this knowledge to develop effective relationship and cooperative ways of working to achieve the Trust’s aim
• Ability to work effectively and be comfortable with achieving through influence and leadership.

Please note:

Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

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