HR Business Partner

NHS; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health service in Wakefield is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner. This role involves guiding managers through employee relations, leading operational HR initiatives, and embedding best practices. Ideal candidates will have significant HR advising experience and a thorough understanding of employment law. This position offers flexible working arrangements and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working including part-time and job shares

27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service

Contributory Pension

NHS Discounts

Car lease and salary sacrifice schemes

Employee assistance and counselling service

Qualifications

• Significant experience in advising on people matters.
• Experience managing multiple complex ER cases.
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment law and employee relations.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support managers on employee relations issues.
• Operational HR lead for specific areas.
• Embed good people practices and manage risks.

Skills

Advising senior leaders

Managing complex employee relations cases

Working with Trade union representatives

Assessing HR issues

Planning and prioritizing

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

CIPD Associate Membership/Level 5

Job description

Our vision for our 2024-29 strategy is clear: Great Care, Great People, Great Partner. To achieve this, we have set ourselves four bold ambitions that will drive our actions and outcomes over the next five years.

Our strategic framework ensures we achieve our purpose and vision: to deliver great care, be a great place to work and be a great partner to work with, guided by our values, and delivered through our enabling plans, ensuring everyone understands their role in making our bold ambitions a reality.

Our People are central to achieving this vision, and we are committed to attracting and recruiting the best talents in all areas of the service.

We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join us in the role of HR Business Partner, covering the maternity leave of one of the members of our great team.

This role is a linchpin. The postholder will use expert knowledge and experience to guide and support managers and leaders in the management of the wide range of employee relations issues covering the life cycle of employment, and will work collaboratively across the People & OD Directorate to facilitate and deliver comprehensive people-orientated solutions from engagement to diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing and culture, to recruitment and people systems.

Main duties of the job

With support from your Senior HR Business Partner and the wider People Strategy Team, you will work within our People and Organisational Development directorate and manage a HR Advisor to deliver an effective HR advisory service to a dedicated portfolio of teams and departments.

You will be an operational HR lead for a specific area and a leader within the team.

You will have responsibility to operationalise work streams to cover the entire workforce. Through your work you will embed good people practice, manage risk to our people and our patients, and seek to improve our processes.

The skills that will be of most importance are: developing good relationships across the service, the team and the Trust; championing good practice and a compassionate and supportive approach within a busy and complex employee relations caseload; plus an awareness of the broader landscape in which our services operate and being able to practice all of this in accordance with our values.

You will work alongside a great team of HR and OD professionals, as well as Diversity and Inclusion and Health and Wellbeing specialists within our People and OD Directorate, to deliver the best possible holistic approach to people management.

About us

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

Benefits

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes.
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

Person Specification

Experience and achievements

• Significant experience of advising senior leaders of the organisation on a broad range of people matters, balancing risk, legal compliance with business need
• Experience of managing multiple complex ER cases.
• Experience of working in partnership with Trade union representatives towards shared goals and achieving organisational outcomes

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to assess and recommend appropriate courses of action on complex, specialist HR issues requiring analysis, interpretation, and compare a range of options.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, communicate and deliver against personal and team objectives and work plans.
• Able to work well both independently and as part of a team, ensuring team goals are met

Knowledge and education

• Educated to master's degree level or significant demonstrable equivalent
• CIPD Associate Membership/Level 5 (or working towards)
• Thorough up-to-date knowledge of employment law, ACAS Code of Practice and employee relations processes.

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.