We are recruiting for an Associate People Business Partner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Our vision is to be trusted to provide outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. To help us achieve this, we are looking for an Associate People Business Partner who shares our commitment to putting people and patients first.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your HR career within an NHS Trust that truly values its workforce, this could be the opportunity for you.
This is a rewarding role within our People Team, where you will work in partnership with managers to understand operational challenges and deliver high-quality, proactive HR support. You will contribute to strategic workforce planning and support the organisation’s ongoing transformation and continuous improvement journey.
We operate in a complex, fast-paced and evolving environment. The successful candidate will be confident managing multiple priorities, comfortable working with ambiguity, and able to see the bigger picture within the wider NHS system. Strong relationship‑building skills are essential, as you will work closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders, establishing credibility and trust at all levels.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Support Strategic People Partners in providing HR advice to divisional or Trust‑wide workforce change/implementation projects, developing and supporting managers by reviewing all related documentation, participating in staff consultations (e.g. TUPE) and providing statistical or employee information to support project implementation.
Development and delivery of expert sessions with managers to enable and establish high levels of staff engagement and early intervention of people‑related challenges.
Communicate highly complex information across a range of HR subjects, including highly emotive and sensitive decisions in relation to changes in service delivery.
Work autonomously to understand and analyse issues in order to undertake complex employee relations cases when required, e.g. detailed investigations, supporting managers with hearings and appeals.
Advise managers on terms and conditions, contractual rights and interpreting and explaining employment legislation including providing guidance and advice in relation to Trust policies and procedures and working across wider HR teams where necessary.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
Hospitals
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We run the following hospitals.
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient‑led Trust where dedicated staff provide high‑quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Feb 2026.
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