HR Business Partner

NHS; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Leatherhead seeks an HR Business Partner to offer crucial HR support to staff and managers. This fixed-term position involves contributing to HR strategy, managing a team, and providing expert advice within a supportive workforce division. Candidates should have CIPD qualifications or equivalent experience and demonstrated success in advisory HR roles, aligning with the organization's ongoing transformation initiatives. The position promises a competitive salary package and opportunities for ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior HR role is required.
• Knowledge of employment law and NHS policies needed.
• Proven ability to manage a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support staff and manage HR matters within the Division.
• Provide professional HR advice to clinical colleagues.
• Contribute to HR strategy and manage HR projects.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Negotiation and influencing

HR advisory experience

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent

Job description

Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

HR Business Partner

The closing date is 21 December 2025

The Workforce Division comprises HR, Organisational Development, Occupational Health, and our Education teams with a collective aspiration to deliver high-quality, responsive, professional services to support the Trust with its business-as-usual activity, as well as its ambitious transformation plans.

An opportunity has risen for a fixed term HR Business Partner to work in a supportive and well-established team.

The role will be supporting staff and managers within a Division. The post is based at our Headquarters in Leatherhead with a regular requirement to travel to other sites throughout Surrey.

You will provide quality and professional HR advice and support to clinical and operational colleagues to manage workforce matters.

You will possess excellent communication skills and be CIPD qualified (or with equivalent experience) with previous experience of working in an HR with recent experience of working in an advisory HR role within a similar environment. Working as part of a large and supportive Workforce Team you will have good opportunities for personal and professional development.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the development and implementation of the Trusts strategic aims and HR strategy as a proactive member of both the HR and local Divisional management team/s.
• Responsibility for provision of a specialist advisory service to colleagues on all aspects of Human Resource matters.
• Working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders, which include system partners and trade unions, all of which need exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills to support delivery of the Divisions priorities.
• Management of an HR team to ensure the provision of a comprehensive and high-quality HR service to all staff within the Division.
• Promoting best practice in human resource management through the effective use of performance management systems including appraisal and personal development planning
• Operating in a multi-unionised and multi-professional employee relations environment
• Provision specialist knowledge in all HR areas.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Home Working Contract Only - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a senior HR role
• Evidence of current employment law and forthcoming legislation.
• Experience of leading projects to a successful conclusion
• Experience of managing a team
• Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions and experience of working with the handbook to manage change and negotiate agreements with staff-side colleagues
• Proven ability to develop strategic policies that meet the needs of our organisation

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience
• Graduate of the CIPD
• A further qualification in management or a Master's degree would be an advantage

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.

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£57,888 to £64,880 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.