People Business Partner

Working with the Executive Team, managers, colleagues and system partners, you’ll connect people strategy with the realities of a small, dynamic organisation. You’ll help us navigate change, develop our culture and strengthen capability.

This hands-on leadership role combines shaping our people function with delivering operational HR support. You’ll balance complex employee relations and organisational change with workforce planning, engagement and organisational development.

As HInM’s senior HR professional, you’ll have the autonomy to improve how we work. You’ll identify opportunities, develop solutions and deliver a people function fit for our future.

You’ll combine the credibility to influence senior leaders with the pragmatism to make things happen. An experienced HR professional, you’ll bring broad expertise, sound judgement and confidence leading through complexity. You’ll be as comfortable challenging senior leaders as helping a manager resolve a difficult people issue.

You’ll enjoy building rather than inheriting: spotting where processes and practices could improve, and having the energy to make change happen. Comfortable working autonomously and navigating ambiguity, you’ll know when to tailor an approach and when to draw on support from our wider NHS partnerships.

Above all, you’ll enjoy variety, take ownership and roll up your sleeves to turn ideas into action.

Are you a people professional who enjoys shaping the big picture just as much as getting stuck into the detail? Someone who can advise senior leaders in the morning and work through manager and employee issues in the afternoon?

At Health Innovation Manchester (HInM), we’re looking for an exceptional People Business Partner to help us build a People Services function that is fit for the future. We want to create a service that enables our people, strengthens our organisation and supports our ambition to improve health and care through innovation.

This is an opportunity to make the role your own. As HInM’s senior people professional, you’ll have the autonomy to shape how People Services are delivered, influence priorities and put the foundations in place for an effective, responsive and forward-thinking service.

You won’t be stepping into a large, established HR team with everything already in place. You’ll be building and improving as you go, bringing professional expertise, sound judgement and fresh thinking to an organisation with an important mission and plenty of ambition.

• Masters level qualification in HR Management or equivalent knowledge, training and experience.
• High level of general education to degree level or equivalent.
• Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
• Proven experience of successfully delivering HR Business Partnering through translating business strategy into a people strategy
• Experience of leading HR /OD at a senior level in a large and complex organisation, delivering through others both inside and outside the function, with experience of working in complex organisations and taking a person-centered approach
• Extensive experience of resolving a wide range of challenging employee relations situations, including complex cases and multi-faceted investigations.
• Great influencing skills and an excellent track record for building strong professional relationships and credibility across all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, high risk matters, a busy workload and prioritise competing demands in a professional manner inspiring trust and a sense of stability.
• Demonstrates resilience in the face of obstacles and takes personal responsibility for delivery.
• Proven experience of using HR metrics to offer insights based on data driven recommendations to senior leaders across a range of people related areas.
• Workforce leadership experience within a large unionised and complex environment.
• Create a strong, partnership working approach with Trade Unions in all aspects, including consultation and negotiation.
• Identification and management of workforce risks.
• Experience of staff management and delegating work through others.
• An understanding of the national NHS agenda and the Human Resource contribution at both a strategic and operational level.
• Detailed understanding of the principles of change management and able to demonstrate a successful track record of major organisational change
• Understanding of Employment Law, current HR Practice and medical employment issues.
• Detailed understanding of Organisational Development and its impact on organisational design and growth
• Demonstrate through CPD, employment law updates and various other training courses an up-to-date knowledge of HR practices and evidence to continuous personal and professional development in current role.

• Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
• Knowledge of NHS T&Cs and employment issues.
• NHS structures and systems
• An understanding of NHS employment systems e.g. ESR, e-rostering
• Agenda for Change Job Evaluation training