At the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the mission is to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. We are a trusted source of advice to government and to the public, focusing on reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

The successful hire of Assistant HR Business Partner will supports HR Business Partners within designated areas of the UK Health Security Agency to ensure the provision of expert HR management advice, offer guidance on human resources policy to support organisational change and other workforce initiatives.

This role is homebased, however the post holder will be required to travel to their local UKHSA office, as per the needs of the organisation.

This is a short term temporary role via NHSP Bank, until December 2022.

The role:

• Support HR Business Partners in the delivery of an effective and responsive HR service.

• Support, advise and coach managers/staff to ensure a consistent approach in line with UKHSA current policy and employment law and best practice.

• Contribute to the development of new HR policies and procedures and the revision of current policies.

• Work with the HR Operations team to ensure the provision of a responsive, high quality recruitment service and support recruitment colleagues in resolving recruitment issues.

• To work with other members of the People Directorate to identify areas of improvement for the delivery of the HRBP service.

• Extensive HR experience across multiple functions, inclusive of organisational change, employee relations, learning and development, and overseeing of recruitment campaigns.
• Experienced in referencing and interpreting policies from various sources.
• Highly organised with an ability to multi task and project manage.
• Full CIPD qualification (Associate CIPD).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

This is a temporary role until 31st March 2023.

About NHS Professionals

We run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

Originally formed in 2001, we now have more than 50 client Trusts and over 180,000 healthcare professionals (Bank Members) registered with us. They work flexibly to NHS-assured standards in a wide range of roles including nurses and midwives, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, personal social services and non-clinical.

We align our vision and objectives with those of the NHS and our teams use their specialist healthcare knowledge to deliver bespoke recruitment solutions to Bank Members and Trusts. These can range from local shift cover at short notice, through to national and international workforce campaigns such as the Covid-19 Rapid Response programme where we recruited 20,000 people nationwide within weeks. We also support our client Trusts to implement major service improvements and in 2019/20 we helped them to save more than £130 million.

Driven by a passion for the NHS and our goal to become its workforce partner of choice, we are continuously improving our services to meet the growing demand for high quality flexible staff right across the healthcare sector.