Senior Workforce Business Partner

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

PLEASE NOTE THAT INTERVIEWS FOR THIS POST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 25TH APRIL - INVITES WILL BE SENT OUT ON THE 22ND APRIL

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team on a permanent basis.

As a Senior Workforce Business Partner, you will work strategically, with designated divisions, to understand their service strategies and business objectives and work collaboratively to identify and develop business-focused solutions.

You will be responsible for developing and supporting the delivery of divisional workforce and organisational development strategies as well as providing regular reports, analysis, and recommendations for action against key performance indicators and transformational change objectives.

You will directly manage your "business unit" team, ensuring that they are fully supported and that their work delivers against both the divisional and people directorate objectives.

You will be required to support hearings, appeal panels, and complex investigations as needed and undertake policy development.

You will form strong partnerships with your divisional teams, the HR/Workforce Business Partner Team, other teams across the Trust, as well as Trade Union representatives to progress the people agenda.

Main duties of the job

• Strategic Business Partnering
• Workforce Planning
• Workforce Transformation
• Role Redesign
• Talent & Succession Planning
• Quality Improvement
• Transformation & Change
• Project Management
• Complex Employee Relations and Risk Management
• Delivery of Workforce KPIs

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K).

The Trust provides high-quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services, and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.

A wide range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust became a strategic partner in Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester 'places' and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership, caring for a population of over 2.7 million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognized nationally for its 'Be Safe Be EquiPPEd' campaign. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been included in the Government's 'New Hospital Programme' to replace the current estate and enable the transformation of healthcare for our community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

Job responsibilities

As a Senior Workforce Business Partner, you will work strategically, with designated divisions, to understand their service strategies and business objectives and work collaboratively to identify and develop business-focused solutions.

You will lead on the delivery of the Trust's Workforce Strategic Plan at a divisional level and provide proactive, professional, expert advice to senior managers on a range of workforce and OD issues.

You will act as a senior member of the Trust's People Directorate and represent the directorate at Divisional Boards, Divisional Performance Meetings, and at other corporate meetings. You will also take the lead on Trust-wide projects where appropriate.

As a SWBP, you will be responsible for developing and supporting the delivery of divisional workforce and organisational development strategies as well as providing regular reports, analysis, and recommendations for action against key performance indicators and transformational change objectives. You will lead on workforce planning and talent and succession planning at a divisional level and advise on complex change management processes.

You will directly manage your "business unit" team, ensuring that they are fully supported and that their work delivers against both the divisional and people directorate objectives. You will also provide assurance to the Associate Director of People that employee relations case work is being appropriately managed, highlighting risk and identifying actions to address.

You will be required to support hearings, appeal panels, and complex investigations as needed and undertake policy development.

You will form strong partnerships with your divisional teams, the HR/Workforce Business Partner Team, other teams across the Trust, as well as Trade Union representatives to progress the people agenda.

Person Specification Knowledge

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent experience)
• Chartered Member of CIPD
• Quality Improvement Training

Experience

• Experience of operating in a business partner model
• Experience (to master's degree level) of working as a senior HR/OD professional which has enabled individuals to demonstrate essential skills, knowledge, and competencies.
• NHS Experience

Skills

• Experience of influencing at a senior level
• Report writing at a senior level
• Management of Complex Employee Relations Cases
• Managing organisational change & service transformation
• Partnership Working with Trade Unions
• Workforce Planning
• Project Management
• Use of OD Interventions / models

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.