Job overview
Are you passionate about building a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture at BHRUT?
We are looking for an experienced and driven Strategic People & Culture Business Partner (SPCBP) to join our senior leadership team in the People & Culture Directorate.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our workforce and culture. You’ll work alongside an engaged and supportive leadership team committed to making BHRUT a great place to work for everyone.
Reporting to the Associate Director of People, this role is a key member of the senior management team within the People and Culture Team. The role will be embedded within specific Clinical Groups as well as supporting leadership teams within Corporate Services.
The role will also line manage People & Culture Business Partners. As a senior leader in the People & Culture Team you will support the development and delivery of the People & Culture Directorate objectives as well as ensuring the leadership and culture within the Directorate meets the expectation of our values.
Main duties of the job
The Strategic People & Culture Business Partner (SPCBP) will serve as a key strategic advisor to senior leadership within the Clinical Groups as well as being integrated into the Triumvirate team. The postholder will align People and Culture initiatives, the organisation’s strategic goals and the Clinical Groups goals and objectives. Acting as a conduit between all People & Culture teams and the Clinical Groups, the SPCBP will provide strategic leadership on all workforce related matters. This includes shaping the People Strategy, improving organisational culture, supporting workforce transformation and ensure initiatives such as the NHS People Promise are embedded in practice. Within their areas of responsibility the SPBP will drive inclusive, compassionate leadership creating a high performing, healthy and engaged workforce that supports the delivery of excellent patient care.
You will be responsible as well as accountable for ensuring improvements in all hard and soft People and Culture KPIs and metrics.
The ability to encapsulate the concept of matrix working within the People & Culture team will be crucial to the delivery of the role.
You will be accountable for the delivery of People & Culture programmes that support our Employee Lifecycle.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Experience and specialist knowledge across a wide range of People & Culture issues such as organisation and leadership development,
Skills
Essential criteria
2. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop productive working relationships
3. The ability to manage highly complex and difficult situations where there is conflict
4. Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders in the development of organisational structures and processes
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936