HR Advisor - Band 5
United Lincolnshire Hospitals
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Job summary
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an HR Advisor to provide professional HR support across a wide range of workforce matters. You will work with managers, staff and Trade Union representatives to promote positive employment relations and staff wellbeing.
You will help deliver the Trust's Work Well Plan and People Plan, offering guidance on attendance, disciplinary matters and policy interpretation.
Qualifications
- Experience advising on employee relations, terms and conditions, recruitment issues.
- Experience advising managers and staff across HR issues.
- Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions.
Responsibilities
- Provide professional HR advice across workforce matters including employee relations and attendance management.
- Support delivery of the Trust's People Plan and organisational objectives.
- Coach managers to develop capability in people management.
- Interpret employment law and NHS policies to provide consistent advice.
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Job description
We are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the community it serves and welcome applicants from all sectors of the community.
Site Trust Wide Role - Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £32,073 - £39,043 This post is eligible as a Development Opportunity. Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:
- Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
- Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
- Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So,what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there ismore.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
At Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG), our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a HR Advisor, you'll be much more than an HR practitioner. You'll be a trusted advisor, coach and problem solver, helping leaders create positive workplace experiences that ultimately support the delivery of excellent patient care.
This is an exciting development opportunity for someone looking to build a career in HR. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of complex employee relations matters, organisational change programmes, workforce planning initiatives, wellbeing projects, and people transformation work. Working alongside experienced HR Business Partners and HR Managers, you'll develop the confidence, skills and expertise needed to become a highly effective HR professional.
If you're passionate about people, enjoy influencing decisions, thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to make a genuine difference to staff and services across Lincolnshire, we'd love to hear from you.
You'll provide professional HR advice and support across a range of workforce matters including employee relations, attendance management, organisational change and workforce planning. Working in partnership with managers, staff and Trade Union representatives, you'll help deliver people-focused solutions that support staff wellbeing, organisational performance and excellent patient care.
Having recently launched our Work Well Plan, our aim is to support, develop and keep brilliant people. From someone’s first day with us, right through their career, we want people to have the support, opportunities and working environment they need to feel well, grow and thrive.
As part of our HR team, you'll help deliver the Work Well Plan by supporting managers and staff to build healthy, inclusive and high-performing workplaces where everyone can flourish.
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
As a HR Advisor, you will provide a professional, responsive and solutions-focused HR service to managers and staff across the organisation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Advising managers on employee relations matters including attendance management, disciplinary cases, grievances, performance concerns, bullying and harassment.
- Supporting the delivery of the Trust's People Plan and wider organisational objectives.
- Coaching managers to develop confidence and capability in people management.
- Interpreting employment legislation, HR policies and NHS terms and conditions to provide consistent advice.
- Working collaboratively with Trade Union representatives and key stakeholders to promote positive employment relations and a Just Culture approach.
- Assisting in the delivery of HR training, workshops and development activities.
- Participating in job evaluation and matching panels.
- Contributing to policy reviews and the development of people practices across the Group.
- Supporting colleagues with complex casework and strategic workforce initiatives.
- Previous experience of working within an HR function including advising on employee relations, terms and conditions and recruitment issues
- Experience of advising managers and employees across a diverse range of HR issues
- Experience of Employee Relations Issues
- Evidence of manipulating, analysing workforce data to identify workforce trends and develop action plans to support business units
- Experience of working to deadlines and in a busy and demanding office environment
- Degree in HR related field, or equivalent experience.
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Coaching qualification
- Ability to deliver messages effectively at all levels.
- Ability to make an impact within the organisation to motivate and enthuse others of the need for change
- A high degree of customer service focus understanding the wider trust context
- Ability to demonstrate pragmatic decision-making when evaluating workforce data and trends and/or advising of HR matters
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft office, in particular MS Word and Excel, with accurate keyboard skills
- Broad and comprehensive generalist HR knowledge base.
- Knowledge of current employment legislation
- Sound knowledge of HR policies, systems and processes
- Understanding of NHS Terms and Conditions of Employment
- Ability to motivate others to achieve and act as a role model and champion for modern People practices
- Ability to travel to attend meetings
- Demonstrates accountability and ownership of work duties and activities and carries them out with accuracy, integrity and customer focus
- Ability to manage office duties and conflicting pressures to ensure workloads are effectively managed and a personal dedication to deliver timely standards
- Ability to work autonomously and self-direct
ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.
You are:
- A Veteran
- A Military Reserve
- Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces
All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.
Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete.
Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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