Job summary
A fantastic opportunity to join our new team of Senior People Business Partners on a secondment or fixed term basis, covering maternity leave until April 2027.
You will be responsible for providing high-quality strategic and operational workforce support, ensuring our people management practices reflect best practice and uphold our commitment to delivering an exceptional staff experience.
You will be a values-led professional who is passionate about fairness, equity and continuous improvement. With a strong focus on staff engagement and wellbeing, you will champion initiatives that ensure colleagues feel supported, listened to and able to thrive, even in the most challenging times.
You will help drive key workforce priorities that support our ambition to be the Best Place to Work. By role-modelling our Oxleas values - We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen and We Care - you will embed these principles in everyday interactions across the organisation.
Working collaboratively with the wider People Teams you will play a central role in leading organisational change, strengthening culture, improving team dynamics, enhancing recruitment practices and progressing equality plans. By fostering effective team engagement you will help improve the experience of staff within your Directorate/s, ensuring a sustained focus on wellbeing, psychological safety, engagement and retention.
Important Sponsorship Information: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post
Main duties of the job
You will ensure our people practices deliver high-quality, consistent support to managers and staff across the Trust, enabling excellent care while meeting all legal and statutory requirements.
You will take a proactive and supportive approach to developing and investing in your team, empowering them to provide a high-performing, responsive and engaging service.
We understand how challenging it can be for colleagues involved in HR processes. You will support staff and managers to address issues constructively and at the earliest opportunity, ensuring a strong emphasis on early intervention and resolution.
You will provide coaching and facilitation to managers, helping them develop stronger leadership competence, confidence and behaviours.
You will lead the development and delivery of workforce plans for your Directorate/s, aligned to the Trust's overarching Strategy. These plans will be tailored to the needs of the service, supporting delivery of excellent patient care, financial sustainability, and a positive staff experience.
You will provide specialist advice to managers on all aspects of People matters, ensuring a strong focus on data-driven decisions, consistency and clarity of approach.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We're Kind
* We're Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Details
Date posted
13 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£70,396 to £80,837 a year pa inc
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
11 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
CORP
Job locations
Pinewood House
Pinewood Place
Dartford
DA2 7WG
Job description
Job responsibilities
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding HR support?
Are you experienced in both strategic and operational HR, with a broad portfolio spanning employee relations, organisational change, workforce planning, organisational development, equality, diversity and inclusion?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively to drive meaningful, continuous improvement?
If you can enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff members, particularly during the most challenging times, we would love to hear from you.
We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the main responsibilities of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding HR support?
Are you experienced in both strategic and operational HR, with a broad portfolio spanning employee relations, organisational change, workforce planning, organisational development, equality, diversity and inclusion?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively to drive meaningful, continuous improvement?
If you can enhance our ability to make a significant difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff members, particularly during the most challenging times, we would love to hear from you.
We are keen to encourage applications from the widest variety of people. We welcome applications from all people, including those from a global majority background, those who live with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the main responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
* Member of CIPD
Experience
Essential
* Operational and Strategic experience
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of delivering a high quality HR service
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
* Member of CIPD
Experience
Essential
* Operational and Strategic experience
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of delivering a high quality HR service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pinewood House
Pinewood Place
Dartford
DA2 7WG
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Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pinewood House
Pinewood Place
Dartford
DA2 7WG
Employer's website
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