HR Business Partner

University of Bath - Human Resources

Location:	Bath
Salary:	Starting from £47,389, rising to £56,535 (Grade 8)
Hours:	Full Time
Contract Type:	Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 20th February 2026
Closes: 4th March 2026
Job Ref: CH13430

About the role

This is an excellent opportunity to take on a HR Business Partner role in a supportive and respected team, which has arisen from the successful progression of the current postholder within the University.

As an HR Business Partner, you will have a key consultative and partnering role to specified client departments and services within the organisation. Your role will focus on strategic HR, providing resources, being accountable for service delivery and building relationships to enable the delivering mission and objectives set out by the organisation and developing the capability and culture. The role will also lead on employee relations within the specified client departments / School.

The HR Business Partner is a key member of senior leadership teams in the specified client departments, understanding and contributing to organisational strategy, management and delivering on University objectives.

As an HR Business Partner, you may, at any time, be expected to undertake the roles of strategic planner, facilitator, trainer, coach, expert advisor, project manager or critical friend. This role includes critical strategic input to the board of a sub-company to the University and working as the HR Lead to an important cross-University Programme. The ability to identify and adapt the critical HR solutions to meet very different organisational needs and ensure their delivery will be essential in this exciting role.

We are a forward-looking HR department, always looking to constantly improve what we do, as drive our practice across a diverse organisation to keep Bath right at the top of UK universities. Working here you have the opportunity to learn from some of the UK's leading HR academics and put that into practice in the 2023 Sunday Times University of Year with the satisfaction of knowing that you are supporting real advances in research and learning that benefit the UK and the world.

Further Information

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected duration of 12 months.

For informal discussions about the role please contact Peter Eley (Deputy HR Director) on pje25@bath.ac.uk

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.