HR Business Partner (Sponsorship Available) At North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Job Overview

• Employer: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
• Job Title: HR Business Partner
• Location: United Kingdom
• Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
• Job Type: Full-time
• Closing Date: 27 April 2026

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR professional to step into a HR Business Partner role on a maternity cover basis. This role is ideal as a development opportunity for an existing HR professional looking to progress, and applications are actively welcomed for acting up or secondment.

You will support one of the Clinical Divisions, working closely with senior leaders to provide expert HR advice that directly supports workforce performance, staff experience, and patient safety.

This post is offered as a Fixed term or secondment opportunity.

Main Duties of the Job

• You will support one of the Clinical Divisions
• Provide advice and guidance on complex employee relations cases (performance, conduct, sickness, behaviours)
• Support delivery of workforce plans, service change, and transformation programmes
• Coach and develop managers to build confidence and capability in people management
• Ensure timely management of cases to reduce risk and improve outcomes
• Work collaboratively with HR colleagues to provide a consistent and high-quality service

About North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

For further information regarding this role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• This post is offered as a fixed-term opportunity to cover maternity leave.
• Applications are welcomed from:
  • Internal candidates seeking an acting up opportunity
  • Internal candidates seeking a secondment (subject to line manager approval)
  • External candidates with relevant experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Chartered Member of the CIPD

Experience

Essential

• Extensive HR experience of working with senior managers, supporting and resolving complex people issues
• Experience of working collaboratively with all stakeholders to deliver aims and objectives through a coaching and consultancy approach, supporting and developing the leadership and management capabilities of senior staff throughout the organisation

Desirable

• Understanding of the workforce agenda in the health sector

Knowledge

Essential

• Strong knowledge of best practice HR business partnering initiatives, stakeholder management and influencing strategies with a proven ability to turn these innovative ideas into working models.
• Strong business acumen to support HR strategy development and delivery
• Strong knowledge of people and HR planning methods and interventions
• Strong understanding of relevant employment legislation and the impact of future legislative changes
• Strong knowledge of relationship management, internal service level agreements and implementation of key performance indicators
• An understanding of coaching methods and approaches to guide senior leaders, particularly within a large change agenda environment

Key Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• Team Leadership – Has the ability to create and communicate a clear vision and direction in order to create a motivated team and foster an environment where groups and individuals can achieve high performance
• Customer Focused – Builds and manages internal and external stakeholder relationships and exceeds customer expectations
• Business Aware – Demonstrates a clear understanding of the current market environment including awareness of all opportunities and threats to new and existing business / income. Seeks, evaluates and uses information from a wide variety of internal and external sources in order to proactively develop the business and improve performance.
• Results Orientated – Evaluates situations, identifies existing challenges and future opportunities for growth, sets goals, plans, delivers and measures outcomes. Has the will, ambition and tenacity to make things happen and therefore deliver outstanding business performance.
• Team worker – Builds personal networks, recognises the value of other team members in enhancing overall performance and encourages and enables contributions from all other team members.
• Good Communicator – Communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and checks that communicated messages have been received and understood.
• Knowledge Sharing – Seeks, applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues in order to improve business performance.
• Personal Development – Manages personal and professional development seeks opportunities for further development and skill

Additional Information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

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