People Business Partner in Sunderland

Are you passionate about health and social care and looking for a role that offers flexibility and growth? At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we value work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid working. Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development.

Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.

Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Supportive team environment
• Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives on tackling complex people challenges and making a real difference? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated People Business Partner to join our People and Culture Team at North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) on a six-month fixed-term basis. This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll work closely with managers and senior leaders, providing expert, pragmatic advice on complex employee relations matters, organisational change and wider workforce challenges.

We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running, build effective working relationships and bring a confident, proactive and solutions-focused approach to supporting our organisation.

Main duties of the job: As a People Business Partner, you'll play a key role in delivering a high-quality, responsive and professional People service. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing expert advice on complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability and attendance management.
• Supporting managers through sensitive and challenging cases, including investigations, hearings and appeals.
• Coaching and influencing managers and senior leaders to build confidence and capability in managing people matters.
• Advising on employment legislation, organisational change and workforce challenges.
• Building effective relationships with managers, colleagues and trade union representatives.
• Contributing to People policies, projects and service improvements.
• Providing professional guidance and leadership to colleagues within the People Team.

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country. The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including promoting integration of health and care services, improving people's health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers. The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: We're looking for a confident, professionally qualified HR practitioner with substantial experience of managing complex employee relations matters and providing credible advice to senior leaders. Experience of working within the NHS, including knowledge of NHS Terms and Conditions of Service, would be particularly advantageous. This is an excellent opportunity for an established HR professional who enjoys variety, values collaborative working and wants to make a positive contribution.

NENC ICB does not hold a Skilled Worker sponsorship licence and is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring employer sponsorship.

Qualifications:

• Highly developed relevant specialist knowledge at both a theoretical and practical level, to a master's degree level or equivalent experience
• CIPD Qualified at Level 7
• CIPD Membership

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of carrying out complex employee relations cases and investigations and supporting managers in employee relations matters, including sickness absence, performance management, organisation change and disciplinary and grievance
• ESR experience

Other Requirements:

• Ability to independently travel to meet the requirements of the role.

The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.

Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.