Human Resources Team Leader

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Workforce and OD Department Town Huddersfield Salary £28,392 - £31,157 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/08/:59 Interview date 17/08/2026

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

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The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to support Operational HR across the Divisional Teams. This is far more than a traditional administration role, you will be at the centre of key workforce activites, leading a team, coordinating HR process, supporting workforce compliance and helping to ensure our organisation attracts, recruits and supports the talented colleagues who deliver outstanding patient care every day.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine leadership, operational excellence and HR expertise while developing your career within a large and complex organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside another HR Team Leader, you will provide operational leadership for a busy HR Administration function, overseeing medical recruitment, resident doctor changeover programmes and workforce compliance. With the opportunity to develop wider HR Advisory skills as you will report directly into Senior HR Advisors who will provide oversight and leadership guidance and work with you build and develop skills.

You will oversee the end-to-end recruitment activity for medical colleagues, including consultant appointments and resident doctor onboarding, ensuring the highest standards of compliance and service delivery are maintained. You will also work closely with HR Business partners, and HR Advisory colleagues to deliver workforce priorties.

As a Key member of the team, you will have the opportunity to influence and improve HR systems, streamlining processe and using data and insight to drive continuous improvement across the service.

Working for our organisation

CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care - caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients - and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.

CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to improve quality, safety and outcomes. We are ambitious about the role that acute trusts play in prevention, population health and reducing inequalities, and this post sits at the heart of that agenda.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We're looking for someone who is organised, proactive and passionate about delivering excellent customer service. You will have experience within HR administration and be confident managing multiple priorities in a busy environment. Ideally, you'll have experience of NHS HR processes, recruitment systems and workforce compliance activity.

You will also bring:

• CIPD Level 3 (or equivalent experience in a relevant field).
• Experience coordinating HR or administrative processes.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship building abilities.
• Experience supervising, coordinating or leading the work of others.
• A commitment to accuracy, continuous improvement and high-quality service delivery.

Person specification Qualifications Shortlisting

• CIPD Level 3 or equivalent level of qualification wihtin a relevant field and demonstrable experience within HR administration
• Active CIPD Membership or willingness to obtain
• Experience of HR Administration ideally within an NHS Setting
• Knowledge of HR processes and NHS Terms and Conditions of Service.
• Experience of coordinating multiple processes within set SOP's, managing competing priorities.
• Experience of co-ordinating or supervising work activities or teams
• Line management experience to supervise and co-ordinate HR Assistants activities.
• Excellent communicator across a wide range of internal colleagues
• Able to use systems for data entry, extracting information to report around relevant KPI's
• Experience of Resident doctor change over processes
• Experience of Medical Recruitment processes
• Experience of using HR Systems (e ESR, TRAC recruitment system)
• Experience of overseeing compliance to successfully manage key performance indicators

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It's important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on theCheck if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We encourage all applicants to review these criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

If you have any questions please contact for assistance.

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