People Business Partner - Surgery & Cancer Team

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Senior HR Professional, navigating complex workforce issues and driving strategic HR initiatives for the Surgery and Cancer Division. This role emphasizes expert HR advice throughout the employee lifecycle, focusing on staff experience and engagement. You'll work collaboratively with senior leadership teams to implement effective HR practices and promote wellbeing and diversity across the Trust.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working options

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Car lease schemes

Qualifications

• Extensive HR operational and strategic experience required.
• Evidence of continuous professional development is essential.
• Experience managing complex employee relations and large scale TUPE transfers.

Responsibilities

• Lead on complex employee relations cases and provide HR advice.
• Support managers in workforce transformation and service redesign.
• Develop and deliver staff engagement plans and improvements in EDI.

Skills

Analysis of complex workforce problems

Negotiation skills

HR best practice knowledge

Coaching

Education

Masters degree or equivalent experience

Chartered member of CIPD

Job description

Job summary

Are you a dedicated, knowledgeable, tenacious HR Professional who wants to develop your career? Then this fantastic opportunity may be for you. Working as a senior, strategic HR professional providing advice to a number of senior managers across our clinical care groups this is a great opportunity for any business partner to put their skills to the test. You will be supporting the largest of the clinical Divisions, corporate teams and Trust wide programmes of work. You will be leading and contributing to improvement programmes putting people at the heart of everything we do.

In this role you will be the HR lead for all Directorate Senior Leadership teams within the Surgery and Cancer Division providing expert HR advice on all aspects of the employee life cycle. Working alongside specialist teams such as central investigation, recruitment and workforce information to ensure best support to our colleagues. The surgery and cancer division have the largest medical workforce in the Trust so someone with experience of medical contracts and providing support on doctors rotas and MHPS processes will be useful.

This role will give individuals an opportunity to test their HR skills by working in a strategic way to identify improvement programmes with staff experience at the centre based on workforce data.

Main duties of the job

• Facilitate and lead on complex employee relations cases, advising managers on best ER practice ensuring that advice given complies with good employment practice, employment legislation and Trust-wide standards. This includes supporting with MHPS medical cases and Employment Tribunals
• Support managers in identifying workforce transformation and service redesign opportunities, including the ownership of consultation processes and TUPE discussions
• Organise, support and provide advice regarding the full range of formal processes. Attending hearings where necessary to provide HR advice, especially dismissals and appeal hearings.
• Carry out preparatory work related to Employment Tribunal claims and attend Employment Tribunals as appropriate.
• Work with directorate teams to deliver against their People Priorities including developing and delivering staff engagement plans, improvements in EDI and wellbeing across all teams
• Coach Managers to confidently tackle underperformance and workplace conflict to ensure their teams deliver the best possible outcomes for our patients, identifying where improvement programmes and training is needed and delivering sessions to a range of senior managers.
• Identify and deliver improvement programmes including cost benefits and efficiencies
• Deputising for the Divisional Director of People

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Details Date posted

30 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pa inclusive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

290-SCCS-1952

Job locations

St. Mary's Hospital

London

W2 1NY

Job description Job responsibilities

Supporting the Divisional Director of People this is a role that needs someone to work tenaciously and have a real positive and proactive approach to identifying trends, and identifying and delivering interventions to make improvements in an effective and efficient way to deliver meaningful change and transformation for our patients.

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Job description Job responsibilities

Supporting the Divisional Director of People this is a role that needs someone to work tenaciously and have a real positive and proactive approach to identifying trends, and identifying and delivering interventions to make improvements in an effective and efficient way to deliver meaningful change and transformation for our patients.

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification EDUCATION Essential

• Masters degree level or equivalent experience
• Chartered member of CIPD
• Evidence of continuing professional development

SKILLS/ ABILITIES Essential

• Able to analyse highly complex workforce problems identifying risk and developing a range of tailored solutions.
• Able to provide authoritative advice on highly complex workforce issues and demonstrate developed persuasive, motivational and negotiating skills
• Ability to interpret and apply HR knowledge to the Trust workforce strategy
• Sound, up to date knowledge of HR best practice, employment law and current thinking and developments in HR
• Experience of managing complex employee relations cases and large scale TUPE transfers in and out of organisations.
• Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines

EXPERIENCE Essential

• Extensive track record of operational and strategic HR achievement, working with a broad remit including OD and MHPS processes
• Evidence of effective working at a senior level in large, complex, high performing environments
• Significant experience of facilitating and managing change
• Extensive experience of working in partnership with Trades Unions.
• Experience of supporting services to deliver people related cost efficiency schemes.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS Essential

• Demonstrable coaching behaviours and ability to model these to managers and leaders at all levels

Person Specification EDUCATION Essential

• Masters degree level or equivalent experience
• Chartered member of CIPD
• Evidence of continuing professional development

SKILLS/ ABILITIES Essential

• Able to analyse highly complex workforce problems identifying risk and developing a range of tailored solutions.
• Able to provide authoritative advice on highly complex workforce issues and demonstrate developed persuasive, motivational and negotiating skills
• Ability to interpret and apply HR knowledge to the Trust workforce strategy
• Sound, up to date knowledge of HR best practice, employment law and current thinking and developments in HR
• Experience of managing complex employee relations cases and large scale TUPE transfers in and out of organisations.
• Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines

EXPERIENCE Essential

• Extensive track record of operational and strategic HR achievement, working with a broad remit including OD and MHPS processes
• Evidence of effective working at a senior level in large, complex, high performing environments
• Significant experience of facilitating and managing change
• Extensive experience of working in partnership with Trades Unions.
• Experience of supporting services to deliver people related cost efficiency schemes.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS Essential

• Demonstrable coaching behaviours and ability to model these to managers and leaders at all levels

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

St. Mary's Hospital

London

W2 1NY

Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

St. Mary's Hospital

London

W2 1NY

Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)