HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner
London: The Wellington Hospital
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious HR Business Partner at the Wellington Hospital. Reporting into the Chief HR Officer (CHRO), you will play a key role in partnering members of the management teams in relation to all HR matters and work closely with the CHRO to implement the HR strategy for the hospital.

About the Wellington Hospital and HCA:

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world's leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we're one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.

The Wellington Hospital is the largest private hospital in the UK and is a specialist healthcare facility with a level 3 intensive therapy unit (ITU) and 12 fully equipped operating theatres. It is particularly renowned for its expertise in acute neurological rehabilitation, providing advanced, high-level care for patients with complex neurological conditions.

Principle Duties

• Work with the CHRO to implement and develop the HR strategy in key areas such as talent, resourcing, reward, employee engagement and organisational development.
• Work with the facility CHRO to partner with the management team in the delivery of key HR projects and local HR initiatives.
• Support the management team in workforce planning to ensure effective scheduling and workforce productivity.
• Partner and support the facility teams on change programs including departmental reorganisations and restructures.
• To coach and support the management team enabling them to anticipate and pre-empt organisational and people issues.
• Deputise for the CHRO as and when required, to include, attending monthly MOR and SMT meetings.
• Provide expert HR and employee relations advice and guidance to the facility on a variety of cases ranging in complexity; working closely with Legal to mitigate risk where necessary.
• Provide day to day management of the HR service at the facility(s) and lead on the provision of HR specific training to the management team.
• Champions the group employee engagement survey, working proactively with each department to ensure a programme of activity is in place to address opportunities identified from the survey results.
• Report and analyse HR metric data and monthly reports as required to ensure the management team acts on key people KPIs.
• Support on TUPE activity for the facility teams and for all acquisitions or disposals.
• Supporting on due diligence and TUPE activity where applicable.
• Continuously look to drive improvement in tools and practices through external market trends, insight and internal best practice.
• To partner with managers across the facility providing expert advice on complex employee relations issues ensuring that they are coached to deal with complex staff issues.
• To partner with managers on a regular basis to review data around sickness, starters and leavers. To use this data to follow up on concerns and manage performance of staff through Departmental Reviews.

Skills and experience:

• Ability to act at an operational and strategic level.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across different levels of the organization.
• Strong multi-tasker, time manager and planner who is able to work well autonomously and as part of a team.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting HR projects and of business partnering senior teams in a fast paced environment.
• Experience of advising and coaching senior managers on a range of ER issues.
• CIPD qualification is desirable but not essential