HR Advisor

St.-Barnabas-House; Worthing; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme

NHS pension scheme

Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive

On-site education support

Study leave opportunities

Bupa access

Free parking

Gym membership discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Death in Service

Job summary

St Barnabas House, part of Southern Hospice Group, is seeking an HR Advisor to join the People Team. You’ll work on employee relations, wellbeing, recruitment, onboarding, and skills development, helping to shape how we manage people and the employee experience across the Group.

Using systems and people metrics to inform decisions, you will embed our policies, values and behaviours, build strong relationships with managers, and ensure legally compliant, best-practice HR across Worthing, Hove and

Responsibilities

• Working on a range of people matters including employee relations, health & wellbeing, embedding culture, recruitment and onboarding activities, and skills development.
• Using systems and people metrics to inform decision making, and identifying trends and working as a team to develop proactive solutions.
• Embedding our people policies, values and behaviours across the Southern Hospice Group.
• Creating great working relationships across the Group and visibly representing the People Team.
• Working with managers to achieve great people management practices.

Job description

Location Worthing, Hove and Arundel Vacancy Type Full Time/Permanent Pay Range Grade 5 - £31,660 Pro rata for part time roles Contracted Hours 37.5 hours per week Application Deadline Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Job Profile Job Profile document
Job Summary

About the role

The People Team are the first point of contact for employees and managers, providing a proactive, professional service, advice across the organisation. As an HR Advisor you’ll be working as part of a great team to shape how we manage people and the employment experience across the Group. Driving legally compliant and best practice, ensuring processes are managed within the organisation’s procedures and policies, and with alignment with the organisation’s values, behaviours and culture.

You’ll be

• Working on a range of people matters including employee relations, health & wellbeing,embedding culture, recruitment and onboarding activities, and skills development.
• Using systems and people metrics to inform decision making, and identifying trends and working as a team to develop proactive solutions.
• Embedding our people policies, values and behaviours across the Southern Hospice Group.
• Creating great working relationships across the Group and visibly representing the People Team.
• Working with managers to achieve great people management practices.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK.We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree Houseis the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Bupa and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate.

Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

Some of our roles aresubject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it may be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.