HR Business Partner – Healthcare

Job Introduction

An opportunity has arisen for a role based within our healthcare segment based at the prestigious Central Manchester PFI Hospital. This is a key opportunity to join our business.

The role involves understanding the challenges of the business, supporting change and ER matters, supporting employee engagement, identifying resourcing needs, succession planning and providing an interface with the PeopleCentre as appropriate with their support of the managers and around 1000 site employees.

This is an ideal opportunity to work in a unionised environment with complex terms and conditions and to experience the day to day challenges and opportunities in an operational setting.

Manchester Royal Infirmary comprises five hospitals on a single, 22 acre site, including the largest children’s hospital in Europe. The site is the largest Private Finance Initiative in healthcare in the country.

Role Responsibility

• Reporting to the Regional HR Business Partner, you will manage a team of 2 HR Advisors on site
• 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

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