# Head of HR Business Partnering > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-hr-business-partnering/8d5f239c-0098-41a9-9971-ff74bdf99738 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-hr-business-partnering/8d5f239c-0098-41a9-9971-ff74bdf99738.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Southampton General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Human resources manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (This position is being offered on a full-time basis) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T10:55:53.938Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Southampton/University_Hospital_Southampton_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Human_Resources/Human_Resources-v8366522 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8366522?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Job Title: Head of HR Business Partnering Contract Type: Permanent Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. ### Main duties of the job At UHS our HR Business Partners work hand in hand with our clinical, operational and corporate teams to support and enable them to deliver world class care to our patients. We’re seeking a proven leader to join our excellent HRBP team, with a reputation for delivering high-quality HR advice and guidance that is pragmatic and realistic. We’re seeking someone with excellent core HR knowledge (TUPE, ER, org change, job evaluation, policy), the ability to deal with highly intelligent and demanding stakeholders, a firm grasp of the employment law landscape and a proven background in building and developing excellent HR teams. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You’ll be looking for a role where you have a good amount of autonomy, the opportunity to contribute to wider organisational projects, goals and objectives, and the chance to influence at a senior level. This team delivers advice to our Subsidiary companies (e.g. UHS Estates Limited, UHS Hospital Pharmacy) and hosted services (e.g. Wessex Cancer Alliance, Health Innovation Wessex), who mainly work under NHS terms and conditions, as well as UHS colleagues; so you’ll need strong stakeholder engagement skills, the ability to adapt your advice to internal and external customers and to take into account commercial requirements. A key opportunity of the role is to work with the HRBP team and wider people directorate on key projects such as staff survey and experience, the use of AI and technology to improve workflows and ways of working and provide data and insight to help deliver the UHS People Plan. This is a broad, interesting and challenging role, working with a great team. We operate hybrid working with approximately half time spent onsite, flexibility is required in order to partner with our clinical colleagues. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Substantial senior HR leadership experience in a large, complex organisation - Expert current knowledge of UK employment law, NHS employment policy and their application to complex workforce and employee-relations matters - Significant experience of advising and influencing senior leaders on workforce strategy, organisational design, service planning and major organisational change - Experience of making judgements and providing authoritative advice on highly complex, sensitive and contentious workforce matters where information may be incomplete and options may conflict - Experience of analysing complex workforce and financial information, identifying trends and risks, and presenting recommendations to senior governance forums - Experience of leading strategic people projects, workforce planning and staff-experience improvement activity across a large organisation - Experience of managing teams, service performance and delegated budgets, including development and deployment of professional resources - Significant experience of partnership working, consultation and negotiation with recognised trade unions - Demonstrable ability to build effective relationships and establish professional credibility quickly - Strategic leadership and influencing **Desirable** - Senior People/HR leadership experience in the NHS - Experience of leading complex medical employee-relations cases - Experience of recruitment and selection assessment methods - Knowledge of NHS policy, regulatory and financial planning frameworks ### Qualifications, Training and Memberships **Essential** - Master’s level education or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience - Chartered Membership of the CIPD - Postgraduate-level specialist HR knowledge, acquired through postgraduate study or equivalent advanced training and substantial relevant experience **Desirable** - Chartered Fellow of the CIPD - Formal management or leadership qualification - Qualified Agenda for Change job evaluator - Training or accreditation in psychometric or development tools ## Documents - [head of hr business partnering jd and ps 14102026 (2) (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10695373) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.