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Job overview
The Adult and Community Division are seeking a highly experienced, resilient and motivated HR Business Partner to join their complex and fast paced Division.
The Adult Community Division employs around 1,200 dedicated staff. The Division offers a broad range of services to individuals living in Birmingham. The aim of the service is to provide high-quality person-centred care and enhance an individual’s quality of life. This may be achieved through preventing admissions to hospital, providing care at home, supporting and facilitating discharge to an individual’s home environment and/or supporting in an emergency. It is important that patients and their carers feel reassured and empowered by the service we provide and that they are actively involved in the care we offer, promoting choice and dignity.
Main duties of the job
Post holder will be lead focal point for the HR Team and operational managers within the Adult and Community Division, facilitating effective delivery of health services via the provision of a comprehensive HR service, including workforce planning, complex casework and organisational change programmes and will focus on delivering the “transformation/ organisational change” portfolio within the Division. The successful candidate will be CIPD qualified and will have substantial experience of delivering strategic level HR advice to senior managers and directors in a complex organisation and significant experience of leading on and dealing with organisational change TUPE transfers and complex employee relations issues.
The role includes day to day leadership and management and development of the HR Team and delivering a comprehensive HR service to a complex Division with specific recruitment and retention challenges. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent and achieved CIPD, have a proven track record of delivering on targets, work well under pressure, be highly organised, have excellent communication skills and have significant competence in analysing and presenting data as part of workforce data forums. The candidate will be able to operate in an environment of rapid change and conflicting priorities. Expert knowledge of the full range of HR policies and procedures and excellent working knowledge of employment legislation is essential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will be responsible for taking the strategic and operational lead on a range of service transformation programmes to ensure that they are delivered in accordance with agreed requirements realising effective co-ordination of people, resource and talent; to ensure that, as appropriate, such initiatives are embedded and the benefits realised, including BCHC Divisional transformation and other largescale HR initiatives as deemed appropriate by the Executive team, Divisional Directors and senior clinicians/managers, with whom the postholder will work closely.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of the full range of Human Resource policies and management procedures, statutory legislation and upcoming legislative changes
- Detailed knowledge of relevant NHS Policy and guidelines
Experience
Essential
- Significant management/senior experience of leading an organisation through service redesign (inc. restructures, mergers, TUPE transfers) both at a departmental, organisation level and cross organisational level
- Substantial experience of delivering strategic level advice and guidance to senior managers and Directors, advising on complex employee relation issues, full range of casework experience, investigations, panels and employment tribunal preparation, delivering change management projects and carrying out investigations
- Developing and delivering management training and presentations
- Manipulating and analysing Human Resource data and presenting it as accessible workforce information
- Significant and demonstrable experience of negotiating with Trade Unions/other employee bodies on large scale change management issues
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Master’s degree or have equivalent professional experience and development as detailed below
- Post-graduate qualification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, or actively working towards this qualification with an equivalent level of experience at a senior Human Resource
- Management Qualification
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This advert is for Band 8a HR Business Partner with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £53,755 - £60,504 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Jul 2026.
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