Senior HR & OD Business Partner

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people. We welcome and encourage applications from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining a healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as part-time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Are you an experienced HR professional seeking to make a real difference within a dynamic and forward-thinking NHS Trust? Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a passionate and strategic Senior HR & PD Business Partner to join our People & Culture team. The People & Culture service is central to the Trust’s ability to attract, develop and retain a talented workforce, ensuring a positive working environment that supports both exceptional patient care and staff wellbeing.

Main duties of the job:

• Lead on strategic HR initiatives and support transformation projects across the Trust.
• Partner with business leaders to deliver workforce planning, talent management, and employee engagement strategies.
• Champion best practice in employee relations, organisational development, and equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Support the implementation of national and local workforce policies.

Person specification:

Education and Qualification:

• MCIPD qualification and membership.
• Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Experience of working in a senior HR capacity.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Knowledge and experience of Agenda for Change terms and Conditions.

Skills and Ability:

• Ability to build effective and trusting business partnering relationships.
• Credible leader with the ability to engage staff at all levels and across disciplines.
• Excellent emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication skills to establish good working relationships with leaders, colleagues and external organisations.
• Ability to be responsible and accountable for decision making.
• Ability to organise and prioritise.
• Ability to challenge, be assertive and negotiate with clinicians and senior managers.
• Politically astute.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Able to evaluate situations and assimilate information quickly and make judgements on a wide range of options.
• Objective thinker with confidence to challenge existing practice and win support from others.
• A flexible and adaptable attitude.
• Able to work to deadlines and manage a range of activities simultaneously.
• Be resilient in a range of complex and challenging situations.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Demonstrable and extensive HR experience in a business partnering role, some of which must be at senior management level.
• Knowledge of current Employment Law and developments in relation to employee relations issues.
• Significant experience of organisational change e.g. TUPE, restructure, redundancy.
• Experience of planning and delivering people initiatives, including talent management, workforce planning and performance management.
• Experience of undertaking complex investigations, writing reports.
• Experience of managing Operational HR and OD teams.
• Experience of working within a highly political and sensitive environment and has the skills to work within this.
• Knowledge and experience of medical and dental terms and conditions.