HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner

Location: London
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

We’re looking for an HR Business Partner to join our HR team at HCA Healthcare UK. This is a key role supporting a large and complex business area, partnering closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver exceptional people outcomes.

You’ll be part of a highly collaborative and respected HR team that partners closely with leaders across one of our most complex corporate business areas. Our team plays a crucial role in shaping the colleague experience, building capability, and ensuring leaders have the support, insight and expertise they need to manage and develop their teams effectively.

What makes our HR team unique is our ability to influence large‑scale organisational decisions that directly affect how our hospitals and services operate. When we support leaders to make better people decisions, strengthen culture, and build high‑performing teams, we enable our colleagues to focus on what matters most — delivering safe, high‑quality, world class care to our patients. Every improvement we make in people, performance and culture ultimately contributes to better patient outcomes.

In this role, you’ll operate with credibility and confidence, using exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills to partner at senior levels. You’ll be comfortable navigating complexity, anticipating challenges, and shaping proactive people strategies that support long‑term business goals.

What you’ll do:

HR Business Partnering

• Provide strategic HR partnership to senior leaders across the business area, supporting talent, workforce planning, organisational development, reward, resourcing and cultural initiatives.
• Partner with the HR leadership team and Centres of Excellence to deliver the HR strategy and ensure alignment across the organisation.
• Coach and influence leaders to anticipate organisational challenges, build capability and drive high‑performance cultures.
• Lead and support change programmes, including restructures, organisational design, TUPE, transformation and capability uplift.
• Champion the employee engagement agenda, ensuring action plans are implemented and leaders are supported to drive meaningful improvements.
• Lead succession planning, talent identification and capability development for specialist and leadership roles.
• Provide expert advice on complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent and confident decision‑making.
• Oversee HR service delivery for the business area, ensuring a responsive, proactive and high‑quality experience for leaders and colleagues.

HR Analytics & Policy

• Use HR data and metrics to identify trends, risks and opportunities, enabling leaders to make informed, evidence‑based decisions.
• Support the consistent application and continuous improvement of HR policies and processes across the business area.

Culture & General Duties

• Embed HCA UK’s mission and values, supporting a culture of fairness, compassion, integrity and accountability.
• Present to senior stakeholders, take an active role in leadership forums and deputise for the CHRO where appropriate.

What you’ll bring

• Degree‑level education (or equivalent).
• Full CIPD qualification.
• Experience operating at both strategic and operational levels within a large, complex corporate environment.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to partner confidently with senior leaders.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trusted, collaborative relationships.
• Demonstrable experience partnering senior teams in fast‑moving environments.
• Proven project management capability with excellent planning and organisational skills.
• In‑depth knowledge of HR policy, employment legislation and best practice.
• Experience advising on and managing complex employee relations matters.
• Experience leading or supporting transformation and change programmes, including organisational redesign.
• Strong ability to interpret and analyse people data to provide insight and drive action.
• High levels of business acumen, balancing people priorities with organisational needs.
• A values‑driven and compassionate approach that aligns with HCA UK’s mission and core values.

Why HCA UK?

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing. 

By caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a HR Business Partner, you’ll be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
• Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
• Group Life Assurance from day one
• Critical illness cover
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

Culture and values

At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.

Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:

• Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
• Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity

Reasonable adjustments

We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.

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