Human Resources Business Partner

at  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a flexible working opportunity that allows you to make a real impact? Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is seeking a part-time HR Business Partner (HRBP) to join our team within the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division on a job-share basis, working 2 days per week alongside the current HRBP.
As the HRBP for the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division, you will provide senior-level Workforce and Organisational Development support, working closely with divisional leaders to align HR strategies with key service delivery objectives. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a part-time capacity while still contributing significantly to the Trust’s goals. You will partner with the Senior Management Team and lead a dedicated HR team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality HR services that support workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, and staff engagement. You will share responsibilities with the current HRBP, ensuring a seamless and consistent HR service across the Division
Why Join Us?
CHFT is nationally recognised for its innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional care. The Trust has received national recognition been highlighted in several high-profile platforms, including:
Value for Money Excellence: Recognised by NHS Providers for our outstanding ability to deliver value for money while ensuring high-quality patient care ( Providers Deliver: Achieving value for money (nhsproviders.org) ) ;
Tackling NHS Waiting Lists: Featured in Sky News for our success in significantly reducing waiting lists, setting a benchmark for other NHS trusts across the country ( This NHS trust got a grip of its waiting list - can others around the country do the same? | UK News | Sky News ) ;
Health Service Award for Performance Recovery (2023): Proudly shortlisted for this prestigious award, showcasing CHFT’s journey to tackle its pandemic elective waiting lists.
Join a forward-thinking, high-performing trust where your work will have a genuine impact on both staff and patient outcomes.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking a dynamic, experienced HR leader who excels in collaboration and can effectively manage key HR functions in a job-share arrangement. You will bring experience from a senior HR role, ideally within the NHS or a similar large, complex organisation

Develop strong business relationships with divisional leaders and managers to implement workforce plans and HR strategies aligned with the Division’s objectives.
Lead, in partnership with the job-share HRBP, a dedicated HR team in the Surgery & Anaesthetics Division.
Provide expert advice on complex HR issues, including employee relations, employment law, and workforce development.
Oversee HR metrics, such as sickness absence, recruitment, and agency spend, to support service efficiency.
Champion Trust values and best practices, promoting collaboration and innovation across HR functions.