HR Business Partner

Position: HR Business Partner

Location: London

Salary: Competitive, depending upon experience

About us:

Originally founded over 50 years ago, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.

About the position:

Reporting to the Chief HR Officer, the HRBP will partner stakeholders, providing strategic and commercially viable advice, support and guidance on a range of people matters, while driving business performance by coaching and developing managers, and ensuring alignment with the wider HR strategy and business goals.

Principle Duties

• Work with the CHRO to implement and develop the HR strategy in key areas relating to people management and organisational development.

• Work with the facility CHRO to partner with the management team in the delivery of key HR objectives, business relating growth projects, service realignments, promotion, local HR and Corporate initiatives.

• Support the management team in promoting a culture of performance and clinical excellence.

• Partner and support the facility teams on change programs including departmental reorganisations and restructures.

• Coach and support the management team enabling them to anticipate and pre-empt organisational and people challenges.

• Provide expert HR and employee relations advice and guidance to the facility on a variety of cases ranging in complexity; working closely with Legal to mitigate risk where necessary.

• Champion the group employee engagement survey, working proactively with each department to ensure a programme of activity is in place to address opportunities identified from the survey results.

• Report and analyse HR metric data and monthly reports as required to ensure the management team acts on key people KPIs.

Skills and experience

• CIPD Qualified ideally to a level 5, ideally level 7 or working toward

• Considerable experience at HR Advisor level, advising all staffing levels, up to including board level, in a large commercial business environment.

• Ability to act at an operational and strategic thinking level, presenting to senior management teams.

• Demonstrable experience of supporting HR projects and of business partnering senior teams in a fast paced environment.

• Demonstrable knowledge of up to date HR Policy and experience of advising and coaching senior managers on a range of ER issues.

• Experience of working in healthcare preferred, (but not essential)