HR Business Partner

Hybrid in Oxford·Full-time·Added 1 month ago

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Overview

Job details

Fixed-term contract
Full-time.
Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

Be near Oxford for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
Have 3+ years of experience
Senior-level role.

Benefits

27 days holiday + bank holidays
Paid annual leave, per the ad.
Cycle to work scheme
Commuter benefits named in the ad.

Skills

The role

Job overview

Join Our Expanding HR Team: HR Business Partners (Full time - Fixed term)

Locations: Oxford & Trust sites (Hybrid working with onsite presence at Littlemore, Oxford and at Trust meetings)

As part of our continued investment in strengthening HR support across the organisation, we are expanding our team and seeking to recruit an experienced, senior HR Business Partner.

In these pivotal roles, you will act as a trusted advisor to your assigned directorates and service groups. Working collaboratively alongside Talent Acquisition, Organisational Development, and the wider HR function, you will design and deliver forward thinking workforce strategies aligned directly with operational service priorities.

Because of the high touch, partnering nature of these positions, postholders will spread their working hours across 4 to 5 days per week, maintaining the flexibility required to support service needs and attend key meetings. We support a flexible hybrid working model, blending work from home with meaningful onsite presence at our Littlemore, Oxford location and across our Trust sites to stay connected with the services you support.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities include -

Strategic Partnership: Build strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders to align workforce strategies with directorate goals.
Employee Relations: Maintain positive, collaborative working relationships with trade unions and colleagues.
Problem Solving & Solution Design: Identify complex workforce challenges within services and develop targeted, high impact solutions.
Strategic Execution: Deliver quality strategic and operational support across workforce planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing, and staff engagement.
Initiative Leadership: Contribute to trust wide workforce projects, change management programmes, and continuous improvement activities.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details of the role are included in the job description. Please ensure that you consider the information outlined in the essential and desirable criteria listed on the advert and tailor your supporting statement to these requirements.

Candidates should be educated to Master's level in HR Management (or hold equivalent senior experience) alongside specialist, up-to-date knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, and complex workforce issues such as planning and engagement.

You will bring a proven track record in a senior HR role within a complex organisation, with demonstrated experience leading change management and project management initiatives while collaborating effectively across multi disciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders.

Ideal candidates will combine a strategic and tactical mindset with the ability to manage competing demands under pressure, responding to urgent situations with calm, logical empathy. A quality-focused, flexible approach to problem-solving is essential, as is access to your own car or suitable alternative transport for business travel across Trust locations.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of change management
Experience of working within a HR multi-disciplinary team, working with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
Experience of managing projects.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters level or equivalent knowledge

personal qualities

Essential criteria

Access to own car or alternative travel for business use

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge about key operational and strategic issues relating to workforce intelligence and planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing and/or staff engagement and experience
Ability to respond to urgent situations in a calm, empathetic and logical manager and manage stressful situations
Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands