# People Business Partner

**Company**: Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
**Location**: Slough
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £59798.00 to £67020.00
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and proactive People Business Partner to join our operational HR team.

You will bring strong problem-solving skills, a strategic mindset, and a passion for driving organisational success through effective people management.

As the trusted People Partner for your division, you will provide expert, proactive advice across all areas of people management.

This includes employee relations casework, workforce planning, engagement initiatives, and organisational development.

Your support will be pivotal in helping the division achieve its goals and in delivering our People Strategy effectively.

You will also be responsible for the day-to-day line management of your HR team, comprising of 4 colleagues that support your division offering you the opportunity to coach, mentor and support their development.

**Main duties of the job**

- HR Expertise: Provide specialist HR advice on all aspects of people management, ensuring consistent, objective, and customer-focused service delivery.

- Casework Management: Ensure timely resolution of casework, particularly disciplinary and early resolution cases, and meet Trust performance targets.

- Operational Support: Work with service managers to address people issues at the lowest level, facilitating mediation and coaching where needed.

- Leadership: Supervise the HR Advisor and provide day-to-day guidance, ensuring alignment with Trust policies and procedures.

- Data & Reporting: Analyse workforce data on sickness, turnover, and other key metrics, producing reports and identifying actions to address hot spots.

- Organisational Development: Assist managers with OD interventions and staff engagement strategies.

- Policy & Compliance: Support bi-annual policy reviews, ensuring best practices are embedded and aligned with employment legislation.

- Employee Engagement: Assist in analysing the Staff Survey results, develop action plans for improvement, and work closely with managers to enhance employee engagement across the division.

**Benefits of working for us**

- Flexible working options to support work-life balance

- 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

- Generous NHS pension scheme

- Excellent learning and career development opportunities

- 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

- Free parking across Trust sites

## Skills

### Required
- CIPD Level 7 diploma
- HR qualification
- extensive experience in providing HR advice
- experience of working in a complex unionised environment

### Nice to have
- knowledge of national health policy
- experience of implementing significant employment change

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