HR Business Partner (12 month FTC)

Job Introduction

If you’re an experienced HR Business Partner looking for a challenging and diverse role then this could be the next opportunity for you.

An opportunity has arisen for a role within our healthcare segment on a 12-month fixed term contract covering various southern based sites. Some of the sites include; Stoke Mandeville, Queen Mary’s, Kings College and Home Service.

You’ll partner with business leaders to enable the delivery of HR solutions to maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning to significantly contribute to towards strengthening business performance.

Sodexo Healthcare is a leading provider of services to the NHS and private healthcare organisations in England. We provide quality of life services that improve patient and staff experience, raise standards and deliver financial benefits to our clients. We help to enhance the patient environment (including patient dining, cleaning/housekeeping, retail services), provide clinical support (equipment sterilisation) and manage technical estates teams (estates management, asset management, land maintenance and energy management).

Role Responsibility

• Encourage effective communication between senior managers and stakeholders through implementation of communication best practice
• Promote best practice across the business, presenting HR matters in a clear and concise way ensuring managers implement HR policies and practices
• Work with the segment HR Director, segment HRBP’s, Projects, and Central HR Advisory to ensure the effective facilitation and delivery of HR calendar events throughout the business
• Provide support on complex ER matters and develop appropriate solutions. Build strong working relationships with the Trust, regularly updating on segment activity to ensure a joined-up HR service is delivered
• Be an advocate for Diversity and Inclusion within the segment working closely with the Trust to identify issues and potential improvements
• Attract, develop and retain talent to enable future growth with accurate succession planning and internal advancement against agreed development plans. Understand the mobility of talent within UK&I.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced HR professional with a detailed understanding and intellectual approach to all aspects of HR Management
• CIPD qualified and substantial HR generalist experience with a professional approach and commercial acumen
• Work history in a regulated industry with experience of unions
• People focussed, with excellent interpersonal, influencing and presenting skills
• Strong analytical skills and proven understanding of human capital measurement and delivery of performance interventions
• Well-developed networking skills, stakeholder, engagement and negotiation skills
• SAP HR and appreciation of other HR Systems
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office programmes

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

Global grade H1 - access to a variety of Sodexo benefits and discounts, flexible benefit fund, bonus potential, pension scheme and car allowance

This role will cover the South UK and will include Stoke Mandeville, Queen Mary’s, Kings College and Home Service

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.