HR Advisor

Integrated Care System; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an HR Advisor to join their team in Uxbridge. This role offers the chance to impact HR significantly, providing autonomy and flexibility. Responsibilities include advising on employee relations, developing HR policies, and collaborating with management to enhance HR practices. Ideal candidates will have extensive HR experience and a commitment to proactive service delivery, working towards creating a supportive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Full CIPD Membership is preferred.
• Significant HR experience, minimum 3 years.
• Strong employee relations casework experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR advice on employee relations and performance.
• Lead on complex employee relations cases.
• Support policy development and implementation.

Skills

Generalist HR experience

Employee relations management

Policy development

Change management

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Educated to GCSE level

Tools

HRIS

ATS

Job description

Were looking for a smart, proactive HR Advisor who'sready to get stuck in and help us shape the future of HR at The Confederation,Hillingdon CIC.

If you want to make a real impact not just do HR thisis the place for you. You'll be joining a small, friendly team where you'll betrusted to own your work, encouraged to bring ideas, and given the freedom togrow your skills in employee relations, policy, and business partnering.

This is your chance to be part of something meaningful andhelp build an HR function you'll be proud of.

Main duties of the job

This is not your typical HR Advisorrole and were not your typical employer.

At The Confederation, we believe infreedom with accountability. We offer true autonomy and flexibility in how,when, and where you work. In return, we ask for commitment, curiosity, and aproactive spirit. As part of a small, collaborative HR team, youll play apivotal role in shaping the future of our people function. This is anopportunity for someone who thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment where notwo days are the same.

Youll have the space and support tobuild trusted relationships across the organisation, develop your experience inemployee relations, lead on policy development, and upskill managers to beconfident, capable people leaders. Youll act as a strategic partner to ourleadership team while also rolling up your sleeves to get stuck intooperational work whether its handling complex ER cases, refining ourpolicies, or improving our HR systems and processes.

Were looking for someone withtenacity, initiative, and a strong work ethic someone whos energised by theopportunity to help build and mature our HR offer. If youre passionate aboutmaking a real impact, growing your generalist experience, and being part of asupportive, high-trust culture, wed love to hear from you.

About us

The Confederation, HillingdonCIC works with General Practice and other healthcare providers to deliver itsvision for Hillingdon to deliver the best primary care outcomes for patientsin the whole of London. We are a not for profit community interestcompany. The Confederation works to develop and support individual GPpractices, PCNs and Neighbourhoods and their changing needs. We deliverexcellent clinical services ourselves both at scale and complementary toGeneral Practice. We are the provider representative voice for localGeneral Practice into the wider NHS and other Partners. We are of theNHS but independent, innovative and transformational.

The Confederation determinesto develop as an attractive place to work, providing rewarding roles andopportunities to grow in order to attract and retain great staff that in turndelivers our vision.

Our Values

• We work together to make a difference
• We care enough to go the extra mile
• We support, trust, and empower
• We sincerely value each other
• We support primary care to own its destiny

Job responsibilities

In this varied and hands-on role,youll work closely with the Associate Director of People and your fellow HRAdvisor to support and strengthen our people practices across the organisation.Your day-to-day will be a blend of advisory, operational, and strategic work,including:

• Acting as atrusted partner to managers and leaders, providing clear, confident HR adviceon employee relations, performance, and policy.
• Building strongworking relationships across the organisation to help embed best practice,consistency, and confidence in people management.
• Leading oncomplex employee relations cases with professionalism, sensitivity, andpragmatism.
• Supporting thedevelopment, communication, and implementation of key HR policies andprocesses.
• Contributing toour transition to a business partnering model working with dedicated teams tounderstand their goals and tailor HR support accordingly.
• Collaboratingwith the HR & Recruitment Coordinator to improve recruitment, onboarding,and general admin processes.
• Supporting andenhancing our use of HR technology (HRIS, ATS) to drive efficiency and dataintegrity.
• Getting involvedin organisational change, from restructures to engagement initiatives.
• Working with thewider team on monthly payroll preparation and process improvement.
• Playing a keyrole in projects that support culture, performance, and leadership capabilityacross the organisation.
• Staying up-to-date with employment law and HR trends, and bringinginsights back into the team to continuously improve how we work.
• Rolling up your sleeves to support your team with day-to-dayqueries, requests, and practical problem-solving.
• Monitoring, reviewing and updating all HRpolicies and ensuring these are in line with current legislation.
• Ensure role is performed in line with confidentiality, using goodjudgement to refer matters to Associate Director as necessary.
• Be flexible in carrying out a variety of tasks, includingadministration, necessary for effective outputs of a small generalist team
• Foster and maintain strong links with all stakeholdersacross the PCN and neighbouring networks.
• Explores the potential for collaborativeworking and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full CIPD Membership
• CIPD Qualified to Level 5 or equivalent qualification (or working towards)
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• HR Qualification (as above)

Experience

• Significant and demonstrable generalist HR experience (min 3 years) in a busy, hands on role
• Strong experience in entire range of employee relations casework, including but not limited to, investigations, conduct, performance, restructure, capability, recruitment and selection and occupational health. With ability to coach, equip and enable managers.
• Evidence of consistent CPD and maintenance of employment law knowledge
• Substantial generalist HR experience working across all areas of HR for best practice HR approaches
• Demonstrable experience of working with a dynamic organisation and varying leadership models to successfully develop HR
• Experience of working with and supporting Payroll
• Experience of policy review and development
• Experience of Change Management and engagement of key stakeholders
• Strong HR administration skills and a desire to develop lean and robust processes to support the HR team and service users
• Able to demonstrate strong commercial acumen alongside empathy to the needs and developments of our workforce
• Able to work in a matrix organisation with a developing structure and adapt to suit the ever-changing needs of this.
• Good Data analysis skills and able to write high quality reports
• Able to prioritise, multitask and deliver to timeline
• Strong communication skills to support the varying audiences
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Work proactively and have a problem-solving mindset to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Understanding of, and commitment to, promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and to support and promote this agenda
• Knowledge of the current HR agenda in the NHS, healthcare reforms and how this supports service performance and improvement

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.

£32,000 to £40,000 a yearpro rata - dependent on experience