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Job Specifications

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated People and Culture Business Partner to join our team.

In this role, you will work closely with Clinical Group and Corporate leaders to deliver a proactive, solution-focused People and Culture service. You will support all aspects of workforce planning, organisational development, staff engagement, and performance improvement. Acting as a trusted partner, you will provide expert advice and coaching to managers to build capability, improve management practice, and enable effective change.

You will also lead and contribute to key workforce initiatives — ensuring that people management practices support our values, enhance staff experience, and improve organisational effectiveness.

Planned interview date mid January 2026

Working closely with the Clinical and Corporate leadership teams and other key individuals the People and Culture BP will support all aspects of work associated with the forward planning, modernisation, engagement, motivation and performance of the workforce. In addition, the post holder will embed workforce and OD best practice; improving standards and increasing management capability within the division.

A key component of the role is the development of working relationships with multi-professional staff that are built on trust, confidence and mutual respect, and which underpin a reputation for being a highly credible and knowledgeable expert in the application and implementation of OD and Workforce strategies and operational requirements. To act as a senior leader; setting professional standards and behaviours whilst representing the People and Culture Directorate at Clinical Group meetings.

The BP will be expected to understand and promote on issues concerning equality and diversity, inclusion and engagement ensuring these issues are central to all activity undertaken and work in accordance with the Trust’s Equality Schemes.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Victoria Whittaker Job title: Strategic People and Culture Business Partner Email address: victoria.whittaker21@nhs.net Telephone number: 01708435000

About the Company

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more ... Know more