HR Business Partner

Are you an influential HR professional who thrives on driving meaningful organisational change? Do you enjoy partnering with senior leaders to shape people strategies that make a real impact? If so, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

We’re looking for an experienced and proactive HR Business Partner to join our People team. Embedded within our directorates, you’ll act as a trusted advisor by delivering on our people priorities and ensuring we meet our strategic objectives. This is a truly impactful role where you’ll partner closely with senior leaders, provide expert guidance across all areas of people management, and take a leading role in designing and embedding organisational change. You’ll also champion the People and Culture Plan, helping shape initiatives that strengthen our culture, talent, and ways of working across the NMC.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partnering with senior leaders to deliver proactive, high‑quality people support aligned to People priorities.
• Acting as an internal consultant – building strong, credible relationships and influencing people decisions across your client groups.
• Providing expert HR advice and coaching to managers on people matters to ensure fair and consistent application of HR policies and employment law.
• Serving as a trusted and expert advisor on all people and employee relations matters, specifically complex and high‑profile cases.
• Providing leadership on change management.
• Supporting cultural change across the business to deliver a range of change management initiatives, organisational, department restructures and job role design.
• Leading, delivering and evaluating HR projects that support the implementation and embedding of the People and Culture Plan across the NMC.
• Working collaboratively across the People and Culture team to improve internal people processes, services and policies and ensure consistent delivery and application.
• Analysing HR and business data (e.g., turnover, engagement, performance, hiring trends) to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and suitable actions.
• Partnering with business areas to develop long‑term workforce plans to ensure the effective use of resource and the appropriate capability and capacity is in place.
• Managing and developing HR Advisors leading on providing professional and pragmatic employee relations advice across the directorates.

About You

• Chartered MCIPD or equivalent experience, or willingness to work towards qualification.
• Excellent knowledge of employee relations, casework, employment law and best practice people solutions.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong diagnostic and analytic skills and the ability to exercise good judgment.
• Proven experience of working in partnership to develop relationships with senior leader to coach, influence and advise on all aspects of people management.
• Proven leadership experience to develop engaged and high performing teams.

Please note that this is a maternity‑cover position, which is scheduled to end on 18 August 2027.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.

Hybrid Working Policy

We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part‑time role, please pro‑rate office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy

It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request. For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable Adjustments

We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and Vetting

All of our roles are subject to pre‑employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.