Role Summary
Working in a HR Business Partner role you will advise and provide proactive support, enabling our managers and services in meeting operational and organisational objectives, through:
- Consistently thinking about how their work can help and support Clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Support Senior Leaders with change, staff engagement, ambiguity and uncertainty by developing credible relationships, influencing appropriately and providing informal coaching support.
- Proactively work with managers, monitoring and analysing data, to develop plans and put interventions into place to resolve areas of concern and/or manage risks, ensuring delivery of national and local HR performance targets
- Enable the division to implement Strategic Workforce Planning across their Services, including different ways of working, role design and models of care, linking in to talent management and succession planning.
- Lead on various trustwide workforce initiatives and change management programmes, with responsibility for development and implementation with your service colleagues, working with Staffside and Trades Unions.
- Supporting our cultural change through the implementation of the Trust’s values and behaviours and ‘Just Culture’ journey including civility and respect principles.
- Develop our Leadership capability by coaching and providing feedback to key stakeholders to improve business efficiency, develop management capability and improve empowerment.
About the Role
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More detail about the role
This is an exciting time for HR with the NHS People Plan vision for the Future of HR/OD setting the standard for our profession. Following the merger of Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and North Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, we are now actively planning and engaging on our Integrated organisational structure. Royal Devon is about to formally launch our new Clinical Strategy which along with our Corporate and Enabling strategies, Vision & Values, sets out our roadmap for the next 5 years. We want to be a great place to work.
We are currently looking to recruit a professional, customer focused and responsive HR Business Partner to join our team on a part-time basis, to provide HR leadership to our Specialist Division, supporting our colleagues and enabling them to adapt to the changing expectations and needs of the NHS and it’s people.
Reporting to the Lead People Business Partner, the Divisional HRBP post holder will partner with the divisional leadership team enabling them to shape, translate and implement the wider people agenda, ensuring the provision of a quality people solutions, aligned and responsive to the needs of our Services and supporting our staff to deliver the best patient centred care.
With demonstrable HR business partnering experience and strong technical knowledge, the successful candidate will be someone who truly values collaborative working and has the skills and experience to support leaders with innovative and professional people solutions.
Working Pattern: 18.75 hours per week
Interview date: To be confirmed
For further information please contact Karen Desborough, Lead People Business Partner at karen.desborough@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
