HR Business Partner
Fixed Term Contract ~ 1 year
Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (onsite)
About the role
We are recruiting for a Human Resources Business Partner to join a progressive and dynamic HR team at The Harley Street Campus comprising of: The Harley Street Clinic, HCA UK at UCH, The Princess Grace Hospital, Leaders in Oncology Care (LOC) and Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI).
In this role, you will partner with 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.
Above all else, we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life. It’s this guiding vision that influences everything we do at HCA UK. From the CEO to colleagues on the floor, we all have a part to play in delivering exceptional care to our patients.
Responsibilities
- Work with the CHRO to develop and implement the HR strategy in key areas relating to people management and organisational development.
- Partner with the facility CHRO and management team in the delivery of key HR objectives, business growth projects, service realignments, promotions, local HR, and corporate initiatives.
- Support the management team in promoting a culture of performance and clinical excellence.
- Partner and support 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.
Requirements
- CIPD Qualified, ideally to a level 5, or level 7 (or working toward it).
- Considerable HR complex advisory experience, advising all staffing levels, up to and including board level, in a large commercial business environment.
- Ability to act at both operational and strategic levels, presenting to senior management teams.
- Demonstrable experience of supporting HR projects and business partnering senior teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrable knowledge of up-to-date HR policy and experience advising and coaching senior managers on a range of employee relations issues.
- Experience of working in healthcare preferred (but not essential).
About the employer
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has grown 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 offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both mental and physical wellbeing.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with the option to buy or sell leave.
- Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals.
- Private pension contribution, which increases with length of service.
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme.
- Group Life Assurance from day one.
- Critical illness cover.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay.
- Corporate staff discount for all facilities, including Maternity packages at The Portland.
- Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection, and lifestyle benefits.
- Discounts with over 800 major retailers.
Culture and values
At HCA UK, we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us brings, as we know that when you feel seen, heard, and supported, you can be at your best for our patients and each other.
Our mission is simple: Above All Else We’re Committed To The Care And Improvement Of Human Life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:
- Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual.
- Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion.
- Honesty, integrity and fairness: We act with absolute honesty, integrity, and fairness.
- Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect, and dignity.
Reasonable adjustments
We believe everyone should feel comfortable bringing their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs, as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and in the workplace to anyone that needs them.