HR Manager

Multi-Site HR Manager

Multi-Site - Travel required (The Holly, Highgate, Brentwood, Tunbridge Wells and Parkside Hospitals) | Fixed Term Contract: 6 Months | Full Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

We are seeking an experienced and proactive HR Manager to support the Senior HR Business Partner in delivering a high-quality people service across the organisation. This is a key role that combines operational excellence with strategic HR partnership, ensuring managers are equipped to lead their teams effectively while driving positive colleague experiences and organisational performance.

This is an opportunity to work closely with HR colleagues to continuously improve HR processes and employee experience, helping to shape the people agenda while gaining exposure to strategic HR initiatives, organisational change, and leadership development.

Are you a credible HR professional with strong employee relations expertise, a passion for coaching leaders, and a track record of delivering people initiatives in a fast-paced environment….. if yes, then this job is the job for you!

As a HR Manager, you will:

Business Partnering & Advisory

• Support the Senior HR Business Partner in delivering the people strategy across designated business areas.

• Partner with leaders and managers to provide pragmatic, commercially focused HR advice.

• Deliver manager training and coaching to strengthen leadership and people management skills.

• Support organisational change, restructures, and workforce planning activities.

Employee Relations

• Lead and manage complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management, and performance concerns.

• Ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant people practices.

• Identify trends in employee relations activity and recommend proactive interventions.

Talent & Performance

• Support talent management, succession planning, and growth initiatives.

• Drive performance management processes and support managers in addressing performance challenges.

• Contribute to employee engagement and retention strategies.

HR Operations & Compliance

• Monitor key people metrics and provide insights to support decision-making.

• Support audit, governance, and risk management requirements.

• Work closely with HR colleagues to continuously improve HR processes and employee experience.

Change & Project Delivery

• Lead and support HR projects that align with organisational priorities.

• Contribute to culture, engagement, wellbeing, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

• Support the implementation of organisational change programmes and transformation activity.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential Experience

• CIPD Level 5 or above (Level 7 desirable).

• Significant HR generalist experience, ideally within a business partnering environment.

• Strong employee relations expertise with experience managing complex and sensitive cases.

• Experience advising and influencing managers at various levels.

• Knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.

• Experience supporting organisational change and restructures.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Knowledge of Workday - preferred

Key Competencies

• Builds trusted and credible relationships quickly.

• Commercially aware and solution focused.

• Confident communicator with excellent influencing skills.

• Resilient, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.

• Passionate about creating positive workplace cultures.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.