HR Business Partner

As an HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the culture, engagement, and development of our hospital workforce. Working closely with the Head of HR, you'll support the delivery of our People Plan, embed a business partnering model, and collaborate with leaders across the hospital to create an exceptional employee experience.

Your work will directly influence key outcomes, including engagement, retention, compliance, and capability development, ensuring that our people feel supported and empowered throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle.

How you'll help us make health happen.

In this role, you'll help us create a workplace where our people can deliver outstanding care by ensuring they feel valued, well-supported, and equipped to grow. You'll champion our values, drive effective communication, and strengthen leadership capabilities so that colleagues can thrive in a changing healthcare environment. By improving engagement, guiding managers, supporting organisational change, and ensuring compliance, you'll help build a culture where people can be at their best-ultimately enabling us to deliver high-quality patient care every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to improve engagement, retention and overall people experience.
• Support L&D activity and ensure statutory and mandatory training compliance.
• Provide confident employee relations advice on a range of cases.
• Lead onboarding and induction for new starters.
• Support organisational change, restructures and consultation processes.
• Deliver clear internal communications to keep colleagues informed.
• Use people insights and reporting to support decision-making.
• Contribute to key people projects and work collaboratively with local and central teams.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
• Solid understanding of employment law and experience managing complex ER cases (essential).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and high accuracy.
• Competent IT user, including MS Office.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and workloads effectively (essential).
• Flexible, pragmatic approach with the ability to adapt to organisational change.
• Quick learner with enthusiasm for taking on new tasks (critical).
• Strong team player, able to work with diverse groups and model hospital values (essential).
• Ability to manage sensitive issues with diplomacy and professionalism.
• Customer-focused attitude with strong service delivery mindset.
• Collaborative, proactive, and able to work effectively under pressure.

Part of a Globally Trusted Healthcare Group

When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa - a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well-established systems that help you grow, develop and deliver exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.

We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to "Be you at Bupa", and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We're committed to ensuring you're treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

How to apply

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Closing date: 31 March 2026
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