People Partner - Medical Workforce | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a qualified HR professional looking for a role which can offer you a variety of strategic and project-based work?

Would you like a role which can offer flexibility to coincide with your outside of work commitments?

We are now seeking a CIPD qualified, experienced HR practitioner to join our team to work with our medical staff.

We are looking for someone who has a generalist HR background, particularly employee relations, to provide the full range of operational HR service to our medical staff. You will be a key member of the People Partnering team and also work closely with the medical staffing team and our Medical Director. It is essential you are able to demonstrate your experience of advising managers on complex employee relations casework, HR policies and organisational change.

As a Trust we are big on staff development and “grow your own” and can in return offer you a wealth of both inhouse and external development opportunities including the opportunity to do Affina Team Coaching.

Your base will be Prospect Park Hospital in Reading, and usually you will be expected to be o site there for 2-3 days each week. Additionally, there will be travel to other, less frequent travel to sites in Berkshire as required by the role. The rest of your role will be worked from home.

This role will provide opportunities to work more strategically in supporting with workforce planning, change management and transformation, engagement and building leadership capability. You will also work closely with our medial leads and support them with the delivery of their people priorities.

• Provide professional HR advice to the full range of employee relations issues
• Build and maintain credible relationships with Medial Leads and our medical staff, ensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated in a confident way
• Act as a point of contact for managers and staff seeking advice on our employment policies, analysing queries to offer solutions
• Advise managers on recruitment processes, providing advice on the writing of job descriptions and person specifications

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at

Berkshire Healthcare are

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

The “must haves” for this role

• Degree or equivalent experience
• A level 5 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience
• Experience working in a generalist HR role with Employee Relations in a multi-skilled professional and unionised environment
• Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have.

Please don’t hesitate to contact

Tracey Slegg on tracey.slegg@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

This advert closes on Sunday 17 May 2026

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