Head of HR Business Partnering


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	Negotiable
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southampton, SO16 6YD
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	14 Oct 2026
Closing date:	1 Nov 2026

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Summary

Youll be looking for a role where you have a good amount of autonomy, the opportunity to contribute to wider organisational projects, goals and objectives, and the chance to influence at a senior level. This team delivers advice to our Subsidiary companies (e.g. UHS Estates Limited, UHS Hospital Pharmacy) and hosted services (e.g. Wessex Cancer Alliance, Health Innovation Wessex), who mainly work under NHS terms and conditions, as well as UHS colleagues; so youll need strong stakeholder engagement skills, the ability to adapt your advice to internal and external customers and to take into account commercial requirements. A key opportunity of the role is to work with the HRBP team and wider people directorate on key projects such as staff survey and experience, the use of AI and technology to improve workflows and ways of working and provide data and insight to help deliver the UHS People Plan. This is a broad, interesting and challenging role, working with a great team. We operate hybrid working with approximately half time spent onsite, flexibility is required in order to partner with our clinical colleagues.

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