Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
HR Business Partner
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Join Our Expanding HR Team: HR Business Partners (Part-Time Roles x2)
Locations: Oxford & Trust sites (Hybrid working with onsite presence at Littlemore, Oxford and at Trust meetings)
Positions Available
- Role 1: 0.7 WTE (26 hours per week)
- Role 2: 0.5 WTE (19 hours per week)
As part of our continued investment in strengthening HR support across the organisation, we are expanding our team and seeking to recruit two experienced, senior HR Business Partners.
In these pivotal roles, you will act as a trusted advisor to your assigned directorates and service groups. Working collaboratively alongside Talent Acquisition, Organisational Development, and the wider HR function, you will design and deliver forward-thinking workforce strategies aligned directly with operational service priorities.
Because of the high touch, partnering nature of these positions, postholders will spread their working hours across 4 to 5 days per week, maintaining the flexibility required to support service needs and attend key meetings. We support a flexible hybrid working model, blending work from home with meaningful onsite presence at our Littlemore, Oxford location and across our Trust sites to stay connected with the services you support.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Strategic Partnership: Build strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders to align workforce strategies with directorate goals.
- Employee Relations: Maintain positive, collaborative working relationships with trade unions and colleagues.
- Problem Solving & Solution Design: Identify complex workforce challenges within services and develop targeted, high impact solutions.
- Strategic Execution: Deliver quality strategic and operational support across workforce planning, medical workforce, temporary staffing, and staff engagement.
- Initiative Leadership: Contribute to trust-wide workforce projects, change management programmes, and continuous improvement activities.
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Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
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Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Jill Castle
Job title: Head of HR
Email address: jill.castle@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07500 092538
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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