Job Title: Band 8b Finance Business Partner

Job type: Temporary

Location: Gillingham, Kent

Sector: Healthcare

Band: 8b

Duration: Expected to be for 3 months (Review to be extended)

Pay Rate:

£31.50 to £32.50 paye per hour

£36.50 - £38.50 paye inclusive of holiday

£41.50 - £44.00 umbrella per hour

All rates depending on skills, experience, and qualifications

Hours: 37.5 Hours per week

Remote/Hybrid: Minimum 4 days on site , 1-day WFH .

Job Purpose:

To provide a professional strategic HR service, ensuring up to date expert, consistent advice, support, and practice covering all staff.

The post holder will be providing expert advice and support in a specific TUPE programme and will be responsible for leading this project.

The Business Partner will be an integral member of the divisional top team, supporting all workforce issues and ensuring that the workforce is aligned to achieve the business priorities and objectives.

Duties and responsibilities:

To lead and deliver on the TUPE of services, coordinating all aspects of the programme, liasing with external and internal stakeholders.

To deliver key HR initiatives and change programmes ensuring that they are delivered in accordance with agreed requirements and in line with required best practice and associated legislative drivers. Where relevant benefits realisation exercise should be conducted and introduction of new ways of working supported by use of technology.

To work with workforce colleagues on organisation-wide change programmes.

To lead and deliver on the TUPE of services, coordinating all aspects of the programme, liasing with external and internal stakeholders.

To deliver key HR initiatives and change programmes ensuring that they are delivered in accordance with agreed requirements and in line with required best practice and associated legislative drivers. Where relevant benefits realisation exercise should be conducted and introduction of new ways of working supported by use of technology.

To work with workforce colleagues on organisation-wide change programmes.

Develop and oversee the implementation of plans within directorates to improve the people management skills of senior leaders and managers by:

Using measurements of performance, effectiveness and staff engagement to assess management capability within directorates;

Lead and manage the HR interface with managers and staff in the organisation, providing expert advice and support on employee relations issues, offering terms and conditions advice, providing expert advice on complex HR cases to managers

Liaise with the ER team on Employee Relations matters and manage complex ER cases through advice and coaching, ensuring the approach is pragmatic, providing necessary development and coaching to the ER Advisors where appropriate

Identifying appropriate support and measures aimed at improving capability;

Coaching leaders and managers to develop skills and competencies for effective people management necessary for them to fulfil their operational roles. Work in collaboration with education and Training department to design and deliver training and development programmes and briefing update sessions in matters of HR policy and practice at all levels in the organisation.

To lead on the development of annual workforce plans that are reflective of business planning by working closely with the senior leaders in the divisions and business areas. Monitor trends in relation to workforce resourcing and take appropriate action by commissioning the resourcing teams to undertake recruitment campaigns where relevant etc.

Accountable for the effective management of employee relation issues within designated areas of responsibility, working with the ER team to ensure compliance to leglislation and policies, whilst managing associated risks.

To support the ER agenda by overseeing specific ER activity across the organisation and implement processes and plans to improve this, working with the Head of ER and ER Team to review casework as necessary and provide support in addressing issues within their divisions.

To advise and sit on formal hearings for ER cases when required and assist with the preparation and delivery of management reports.

Interpret and advise on employment legislation and best practice on Employee Relation matters.

To ensure ER Performance indicators are in place to monitor activity and quality and take action as required.

Qualifications:

CCAB fully qualified

Master's Degree or equivalent experience

Evidence of CPD

Current member of relevant professional bodies

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

Expert knowledge of accounting policies and regulations

Knowledge and understanding of strategic NHS issues and priorities

Detailed knowledge of NHS and private sector financial management techniques and regulations, including investment appraisal, business case preparation and NHS costing methodologies

Expert understanding of the NHS financial regime

Three years PQE

Experience of financial management in a complex organisation

Experience of developing effective internal control environments

Experience of development of efficiency improvement programmes

Excellent communication skills

Able to communicate with internal and external senior stakeholders

Ability to present complex, sensitive and contentious information in a way that is understandable to the reader

Ability to motivate staff to deliver change

Capacity to analyse complex information from a variety of sources, both financial and non-financial

Demonstrate 'lean' thinking on the delivery of financial services

Clear 'business focus'

Able to interpret and provide sound judgement on highly complex issues

Able to manage a multiplicity of targets and objectives

Provide judgements regarding resource allocation where no precedent exists and where potential for disagreement at a senior level exists

Required to plan and organise a broad range of complex and technical

Questions

Do you have experience working as a Band 8b Finance Business Partner in the NHS or Healthcare? (Minimum Band 8a Essential)

Do you have Expert understanding of the NHS financial regime?

Do you have Knowledge and understanding of strategic NHS issues and priorities?

Do you have Expert knowledge of accounting policies and regulations?

Do you meet the criteria above and available to start immediately?