HR Advisor

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Preston is seeking a part-time HR Advisor to join their HR Business Partnering Team. This role focuses on providing proactive HR advice and supporting managers through various employee relations issues. The ideal candidate will possess full CIPD membership and have demonstrable HR advisory experience. The position offers flexibility with a hybrid work model, balancing home and key Trust site work.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Supportive team environment

Commitment to equality and diversity

Qualifications

• Full CIPD membership required.
• CIPD level 5 is essential.
• Degree level education or equivalent is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional HR advisory service.
• Coach managers on employee relations issues.
• Participate in policy development and HR projects.

Skills

HR advisory experience

Strong communication

Coaching approach

Education

Full CIPD membership

CIPD level 5

Degree level education or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

HR Advisor

The closing date is 09 December 2025

At Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, our vision is clear: to deliver outstanding mental health, learning disability, autism, and community-based services for the people we serve.

As one of the region's largest employers, we're committed to supporting, developing, and retaining our incredible workforce. We strive to be the employer of choice a place where colleagues feel valued, proud, and inspired every day.

Do you want to be part of this vision? Are you ready to take the next step in your HR career and experience genuine pride in your work? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We're excited to offer an opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our dynamic HR Business Partnering Team. This is a part-time role (24 hours per week), perfect for someone who wants to make a real impact while enjoying flexibility.

You will work across our Lancashire & South Cumbria footprint with a hybrid approach, combining home working with time on key Trust sites.

If you're passionate about people, thrive on collaboration, and want to help shape a positive workplace culture, this is your chance to join a team that truly makes a difference.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will provide a professional and proactive HR advisory service, aligned with our Trust values. You will build strong relationships and coach managers to develop effective people practices. You will be a key point of contact for managers, using a coaching approach, you will help them to deal with a wide range of employee relations issues including disciplinary, grievance, absence management, performance management and organisational change programmes.

Supporting workforce KPIs and contributing to strategic priorities, you will get involved in policy development, organisational change programmes, manager training, and HR projects--no two days are the same!

You will use Microsoft Teams, email and phone to provide a range of HR advice and where appropriate you will meet with managers and staff face to face. You will bring HR advisory experience and be CIPD qualified. NHS experience is an advantage but is not essential.

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask. We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services. LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

Job responsibilities

You will join a supportive and welcoming team, who will help you settle in and get to know the Trust and the teams you will be supporting. We come together regularly to ensure good communication and sharing of good practice. Under the direction of the HR Business Partner, you will work autonomously with supervision and support. We will also support you to continue to develop your knowledge and progress in a busy environment where we are striving to live our values every day. The NHS People Plan and People Promises influence the strategic direction of our team. You will join an organisation that is committed to making changes, to support equality, and takes compassionate leadership approaches, with the aim of improving staff wellbeing and delivering excellent patient care.

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full CIPD membership
• CIPD level 5
• Degree level education or equivalent

Knowledge

• HR policy
• Employment legislation and its impact on policy formulation

Experience

• Demonstrate a range of HR Advisory experience
• Experience of managing investigations
• Experience of handling sickness, grievance, performance management and disciplinary casework
• Experience of dealing with queries from staff at all levels
• Experience of working in a unionised environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum, pro rata