Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) – Regional Hospitals
Remote work with travel to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Teesside, Leeds & York | Hybrid Working | Full-Time
Competitive salary available, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your leadership, your ability to drive meaningful change. Whether it’s shaping our people strategy, supporting our leaders, transforming our workforce, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.
We’re looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to play a strategic leadership role across a portfolio of regional hospitals. In this high-impact position, you’ll lead the delivery of a forward-thinking people agenda that supports organisational performance, workforce transformation, and a positive colleague experience.
Working closely with Hospital Directors and senior leadership teams, you’ll operate at both a strategic and operational level, ensuring consistent HR delivery while responding to the needs of a complex, multi-site healthcare environment. You’ll provide expert guidance, challenge thinking, and drive outcomes aligned with business priorities.
You’ll also play a key role in leading change initiatives and embedding best practice across multiple locations, ensuring alignment with organisational goals while meeting local and regional workforce requirements.
You should have:
1. Significant experience operating as an HR Business Partner within a complex, multi-site organisation
2. A strong track record of influencing and partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver business outcomes
3. Demonstrated experience leading and supporting organisational change and transformation programmes
4. In-depth knowledge of UK employment law, with an understanding of regional differences (including Scotland desirable)
5. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to inform decision making
6. Experience working across both England and Scotland employment frameworks (desirable)
7. CIPD Level 7 qualification (or equivalent) desirable
8. Experience managing, coaching, or mentoring HR teams
9. The ability to balance strategic priorities with operational delivery in a fast-paced environment
10. A collaborative approach, with a passion for building high-performing teams and improving employee experience
11. Resilience and adaptability when working in complex and evolving environments
You will bring:
12. Strategic thinking and strong commercial awareness
13. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
14. Leadership capability, including coaching and developing others
15. A data-driven mindset to support informed and effective decision making
16. High emotional intelligence, integrity, and sound judgement
We will provide:
17. The opportunity to work as a senior HR leader, shaping and delivering a strategic people agenda across multiple hospital sites
18. The chance to partner with senior leaders to influence organisational performance and workforce transformation
19. Exposure to a complex, multi-site healthcare environment across England and Scotland
20. A variety of challenging and impactful work, supporting both operational excellence and long-term transformation
21. The opportunity to further develop your leadership and strategic HR capability
22. A collaborative and supportive environment working alongside experienced HR and business leaders
23. Ongoing support to grow your career while making a meaningful impact across the organisation
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Apply today… It starts with you.