HR Business Partner
Department
Human Resources
Salary
Starting from £47,389, rising to £56,535
Closing date
Wednesday 04 March 2026
About the role
This is an excellent opportunity to take on an HR Business Partner role in a supportive and respected team, which has arisen from the successful progression of the current postholder within the University.
As an HR Business Partner, you will have a key consultative and partnering role to specified client departments and services within the organisation. Your role will focus on strategic HR, providing resources, being accountable for service delivery and building relationships to enable the delivery of the mission and objectives set out by the organisation, and developing the capability and culture. The role will also lead employee relations within the specified client departments / School.
The HR Business Partner is a key member of senior leadership teams in the specified client departments, understanding and contributing to organisational strategy, management and delivering on University objectives.
As an HR Business Partner, you may, at any time, be expected to undertake the roles of strategic planner, facilitator, trainer, coach, expert advisor, project manager or critical friend. This role includes critical strategic input to the board of a sub-company to the University and working as the HR Lead to an important cross-University Programme. The ability to identify and adapt the critical HR solutions to meet very different organisational needs and ensure their delivery will be essential in this exciting role.
About you
We are a forward-looking HR department, always looking to constantly improve what we do and drive our practice across a diverse organisation to keep Bath right at the top of UK universities. Working here, you have the opportunity to learn from some of the UK's leading HR academics and put that into practice in the 2023 Sunday Times University of the Year, with the satisfaction of knowing that you are supporting real advances in research and learning that benefit the UK and the world.
Further Information
This role is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week), fixed-term basis, with an expected duration of 12 months.
For informal discussions about the role, please contact Peter Eley (Deputy HR Director).
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, and an autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
What we can offer you
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
- Free counselling services through Health Assured
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
- Staff discount on language courses
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts and more
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
Find out more about our benefits on our website and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us on X and LinkedIn.
Right to Work in the UK : We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship, and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
Anonymous shortlisting : We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
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