Human Resources Business Partner

Are you an influential HR professional who thrives on driving meaningful organisational change? Do you enjoy partnering with senior leaders to shape people strategies that make a real impact? If so, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

We’re looking for an experienced and proactive HR Business Partner to join our People team. Embedded within our directorates, you’ll act as a trusted advisor by delivering on our people priorities and ensuring we meet our strategic objectives.

This is a truly impactful role where you’ll partner closely with senior leaders, provide expert guidance across all areas of people management, and take a leading role in designing and embedding organisational change. You’ll also champion the People and Culture Plan, helping shape initiatives that strengthen our culture, talent, and ways of working across the NMC.

• Partnering with senior leaders to deliver proactive, high‑quality people support aligned to People priorities.
• Acting as an internal consultant - building strong, credible relationships and influencing people decisions across your client groups.
• Providing expert HR advice and coaching to managers on people matters to ensure fair and consistent application of HR policies and employment law.
• Serving as a trusted and expert advisor on all people and employee relations matters, specifically complex and high-profile cases.
• Providing leadership on change management. Support cultural change across the business to deliver a range of change management initiatives, organisational, department restructures and job role design.
• Leading, delivering and evaluating HR projects that support the implementation and embedding of the People and Culture Plan across the NMC
• Working collaboratively across the People and Culture team to improve internal people processes, services and policies and ensure consistent delivery and application.
• Analysing HR and business data (e.g., turnover, engagement, performance, hiring trends) to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and suitable actions.
• Partnering with business areas to develop long-term workforce plans to ensure the effective use of resource and the appropriate capability and capacity is in place.
• Managing and developing HR Advisors leading on providing professional and pragmatic employee relations advice across the directorates.

You will bring:

• Chartered MCIPD or equivalent experience, or willingness to work towards qualification.
• Excellent knowledge of employee relations, casework, employment law and best practice people solutions.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong diagnostic and analytic skills and the ability to exercise good judgment.
• Proven experience of working in partnership to develop relationships with senior leader to coach, influence and advise on all aspects of people management.
• Proven leadership experience to develop engaged and high performing teams

Please note that this is a maternity‑cover position, which is scheduled to end on 18 August 2027.