Senior People Partner | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Having recently implemented a new People Services model and with a clear vision for transformation and cultural change, this is a unique opportunity to join the People Services directorate at the beginning of their journey. Playing a pivotal role in shaping and leading the people service agenda and the successful delivery of the People Strategy you will have the autonomy and opportunity to thrive.

Adept, ambitious and innovative, the Trust are looking for experienced Senior People Partners who can ably move between being part of the Senior People Services Team and the Divisional Management team, and be embedded into the operational business. The new model provides for a purposely designed specialist hub responsible for dealing with operational HR matters to ensure that this role is able to focus on leading and effecting change within the Trust to become an outstanding place to work, learn and achieve.

Responsibilities

• Build strong and credible relationships within the Divisional/service Leadership Team that allow insight, strategy and solutions that support progression of the people agenda, to flourish
• Design and deliver local people plans and best people practices that align with the Trust People Plan
• Drive the development and implementation of Trust-wide policies, initiatives and schemes, as agreed with the Head of Business Partnering
• Lead the planning of organisational change programmes and joint ventures with new partners relating to service reconfiguration programmes and delivery of strategic and operational objectives
• Work closely with management teams to design and implement new management and team structures to facilitate new models of care and ways of working
• Develop recruitment strategies and business cases to support recruitment of talent and work collaboratively with the Strategic Resourcing Lead in the commissioning of planned recruitment campaigns, activities and initiatives
• Promote and facilitate positive employee engagement and ensure appropriate staff engagement plans are in place to address and tackle cultural barriers
• Advise on complex, sensitive, or high profile/risk cases, providing an options appraisal and risk assessment of possible courses of action, and in securing best outcomes

Our Five-Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Please review the full JD ahead of your application; some main responsibilities of the post are:

• Ensure the people elements of business cases are well-structured, cost effective and deliver strategic and operational objectives.
• Provide guidance to the Divisional Leadership Team on people issues, risks and developments relating to the Division(s) for board management purposes, guided by in-depth and expert knowledge of the Division/service area.
• Seek feedback and coaching to continually learn and develop as a professional.
• Provide support and oversight of any case work or projects allocated to staff within the People Services Hub, working collaboratively with the People Services Hub Manager in the management of capacity and capability, and in supporting their on-going learning and development.
• Ensure local operational/service business strategy/plans are in place and reflect business opportunities for growth, plans for redesigned services and are aligned to the overall Trust’s People Plan.
• Responsible for the planning of organisational change programmes and joint ventures with new partners relating to service reconfiguration programmes and delivery of strategic and operational objectives.
• Work with high levels of autonomy to interpret and lead on people matters, commissioning support from OD Partners as required, and carrying out highly complex intervention requirements across multiple service streams.
• Provide, monitor and analyse divisional workforce information reports, highlighting areas for concern. Proactively work with managers to put plans in place to resolve areas of concern and/or manage risks, ensuring delivery of national and local people performance targets and helping managers to identify how targets can be best achieved.
• Fully utilise the Trust’s electronic workforce systems, produce reports to aid problem identification and management action.
• Monitor and report against agreed People Services’ Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for key performance areas, ensuring that there are clearly defined key performance indicators and productivity metrics against which, areas are monitored and improvement actions taken.

This advert closes on Thursday 19 Feb 2026.