HR Business Partner

Job overview

Are you an ambitious HR professional ready to step into a challenging, fast‑paced and influential role?

We’re looking for a HR Business Partner to join our busy and highly respected People & OD Directorate, working at the heart of a large NHS organisation that supports thousands of colleagues and delivers vital services to our communities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work across a wide HR operational and strategic portfolio, in a team with a significant volume of operational HR activity, partnering closely with senior leaders to make a real difference to culture, performance and staff experience.

You will have a significant degree of autonomy, which is why we are looking for a confident, experienced HR professional to provide sound HR advice on a variety of operational and strategic activities.

This post offers flexible hybrid working, with a mix of on-site presence across Trust locations and remote working, in line with service and business needs.

Development opportunity

We can consider applications from individuals seeking a development opportunity.  If you have strong operational HR experience and the capability to work at a Business Partner level, but are still working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in HRM / CIPD, we would consider supporting you to achieve this as part of your development in role and you would commence on a salary range between £39,959 to £48,117 progressing to £49,387 on completion of the qualification.  This can be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job

As a HR Business Partner, you will:

• Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders and managers across clinical networks
• Support and lead on complex employee relations cases, workforce challenges and high‑risk issues
• Play a central role in organisational change, consultation and workforce transformation
• Champion a Being Fair and Just and Learning Culture, working in partnership with staff side colleagues
• Contribute to workforce planning, performance dashboards and people metrics
• Support wellbeing, attendance management and engagement initiatives
• Coach and develop managers to build strong, confident people management capability
• Line manage HR Advisors and support their development.

Who we’re looking for

We’re keen to hear from candidates who:

• Have strong generalist HR experience with confidence in employee relations and change
• Are credible, resilient and comfortable advising and influencing at senior levels
• Enjoy working in complex, unionised environments
• Can balance compassion with professionalism, and pace with quality
• Are motivated by impact, learning and continuous improvement.

NHS experience is welcome but not essential.  A track record of delivery in an operational HR role with a positive ‘can do’ outlook and the ability to establish effective working relationships quickly is more important.

PLEASE NOTE: Interviews will take place on – 2 & 3 June 2026

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Trust spans Lancashire and South Cumbria, and the two available HR Business Partner posts will be aligned as follows:

• One post will provide HR Business Partner support across the Central and West Lancashire Network (which includes Preston down to Ormskirk).
• The second post will provide HR Business Partner support to the Bay Network (that covers Barrow, Lancaster and Preston as well as across Lancashire and South Cumbria for our Forensic Community and Children & Young People Mental Health Services)

You will be required to work across relevant sites within your allocated network and occasionally support wider Trust priorities as required.

For a full list of the duties and responsibilities of this post please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification.