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Job Description
HR Business Partner
King Edward VII's Hospital, 5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA
Permanent (37.5hrs)
Up to. £60,000pa Benefits
Advert Expires: - 26th June 2026
As an HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the culture, engagement, and development of our hospital workforce. Working closely with the HR Director, you’ll support the delivery of our People Plan, embed a business partnering model, and collaborate with leaders across the hospital to create an exceptional employee experience.
Your work will directly influence key outcomes, including engagement, retention, compliance, and capability development, ensuring that our people feel supported and empowered throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle.
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen.
In this role, you’ll help us create a workplace where our people can deliver outstanding care by ensuring they feel valued, well-supported, and equipped to grow. You’ll champion our values, drive effective communication, and strengthen leadership capabilities so that colleagues can thrive in a changing healthcare environment. By improving engagement, guiding managers, supporting organisational change, and ensuring compliance, you’ll help build a culture where people can be at their best—ultimately enabling us to deliver high‑quality patient care every day.
Key Responsibilities
At King Edward VII’s Hospital, we want to reward our staff for the amazing job that they do.
As part of the team, you will have access to a range of benefits for your work and home life.
We offer a variety of benefits that take into consideration how you commute to work, your health and well-being and recognising your service and any staff referrals you make to the Hospital.
Take a look at the full range of benefits on offer when working here:
When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well‑established systems that help you grow, develop and deliver exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.
We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
People & HR
Locations:
King Edwards VII Hospital
HR Business Partner
King Edward VII's Hospital, 5-10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA
Permanent (37.5hrs)
Up to. £60,000pa Benefits
Advert Expires: - 26th June 2026
As an HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the culture, engagement, and development of our hospital workforce. Working closely with the HR Director, you’ll support the delivery of our People Plan, embed a business partnering model, and collaborate with leaders across the hospital to create an exceptional employee experience.
Your work will directly influence key outcomes, including engagement, retention, compliance, and capability development, ensuring that our people feel supported and empowered throughout every stage of the employee lifecycle.
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen.
In this role, you’ll help us create a workplace where our people can deliver outstanding care by ensuring they feel valued, well-supported, and equipped to grow. You’ll champion our values, drive effective communication, and strengthen leadership capabilities so that colleagues can thrive in a changing healthcare environment. By improving engagement, guiding managers, supporting organisational change, and ensuring compliance, you’ll help build a culture where people can be at their best—ultimately enabling us to deliver high‑quality patient care every day.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders on workforce strategy, succession and capability.
- Provide confident employee relations advice on a range of cases.
- Identify learning and development needs and work closely with the centralised L&D team in the implementation and rollout.
- Supporting growth activity, integration and organisational change.
- Support in building a high-performing world class engagement culture.
- Use people insights and reporting to support decision‑making.
- Contribute to key people projects and work collaboratively with local and central teams.
- CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
- Strong generalist HR background (essential).
- Experience in independent healthcare or the care sector. (essential)
- Solid understanding of employment law and experience managing complex ER cases (essential).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and high accuracy.
- Competent IT user, including MS Office.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and workloads effectively (essential).
- Flexible, pragmatic approach with the ability to adapt to organisational change.
- Quick learner with enthusiasm for taking on new tasks (critical).
- Strong team player, able to work with diverse groups and model hospital values (essential).
- Ability to manage sensitive issues with diplomacy and professionalism.
- Customer‑focused attitude with strong service delivery mindset.
- Collaborative, proactive, and able to work effectively under pressure.
At King Edward VII’s Hospital, we want to reward our staff for the amazing job that they do.
As part of the team, you will have access to a range of benefits for your work and home life.
We offer a variety of benefits that take into consideration how you commute to work, your health and well-being and recognising your service and any staff referrals you make to the Hospital.
Take a look at the full range of benefits on offer when working here:
- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days bank holidays increasing with length of service
- In-house training for all staff
- Company pension scheme
- Interest free travel loan
- Private healthcare (Eligible after 12m)
- Bicycle Loan Scheme
- Retailer discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well‑established systems that help you grow, develop and deliver exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.
We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
People & HR
Locations:
King Edwards VII Hospital