HR manager

Your World Healthcare UK; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Band 6 ER Advisor role within a NHS Trust. You will deliver a first-class day-to-day service, advising on disciplinary, grievances, restructures, sickness absence, performance, and wellbeing, while ensuring policy compliance and best practice.

Hybrid Salisbury location, temporary 3-month booking with possible extension. Responsibilities include advising managers, reviewing HR policies, leading on project work, maintaining attendance and safeguarding standards, and delivering HR training with the

Qualifications

• Qualified CIPD level 5 or working towards; CIPD member.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of disciplinary, grievance and performance issues advising managers and panels at investigation, hearing and appeal stages.

Skills

CIPD Level 5

Degree

CPD

Employee relations

Employment law

Coaching/mentoring

Training delivery

HR data analysis

Presentation skills

IT skills (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

Education

Degree or equivalent

CIPD qualification (level 5)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Band 6 ER Advisor:

pose of the Job

As an Employee Relations Advisor you will deliver a first-class day to day service to the Trust in a timely, practical, and professional manner championing best practice in all employee relations people processes and ensuring a positive internal and external reputation for the Trust.

To guide and advise on the full employee relations remit, including disciplinary, grievance, restructures and reorganisations, sickness absence management, performance management and employee wellbeing in accordance with Trust values and policies.

To develop effective and credible working relationships with the Divisions and across the Trust to positively influence staff experience and patient experience.

Location: Salisbury / Hybrid

Job Type: Temporary

Duration of booking: Expected to last 3 months with possible extension

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: Up to £22 per hour PAYE inclusive of holiday pay depending on experience

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm

Sector: Healthcare

Based: Office / Hospital

• Manage a caseload of disciplinary, grievance and performance issues advising and managers and panels with individual cases, at investigation,hearingand appeal stages. Ensuring adherence to policies and procedures and best practice. This includes working with the Head of Employee Relations in the management of Tribunal cases.
• To develop and review HR policies, ensuring that correct information and details are provided in terms of legislation and processes. Ensure that HR policies and procedures are placed on the intranet,monitoringand ensuring that these are up to date and correct.
• Toidentifyearly interventions in cases that promote a constructive working environment reducing conflict and case escalation such as mediation and effective team working which may require collaboration with the HR Business Partners and Learning and Development.
• Toparticipatein projects at organisation, division or departmental level including re-organisations and restructures as delegated and required. Taking the lead and co-ordination ofparticular projectsas delegated.
• Monitor sickness absence within divisions and work with managers,staffand Occupational Health to reduce andmaintainlow sickness absence levels,in accordance withthe Trust's Management of Attendance Policy and procedure.
• Toparticipatein Job Matching panels and the job matching process.
• Participate in working groups and meetings as required. Organising and chairing meetings of relevance to the role.
• Maintain anexpertisein employment law and best HR practice,in order tobe able toprovideaccurateadvice to managers and staff on employment legislation issues, and their implications for the Trust.
• Contribute to the effective communication of HR related information by reporting on human resources issues anddisseminatingkey information to managers and staff asappropriate.
• Develop andmaintaingood working relationships, and a partnership approach to employee relations with staff and trade union colleagues.
• Develop andmaintaina knowledge of national NHS terms and conditions such as Agenda for Change and the Consultant Contract.
• Deliverappropriate HRtraining courses, working with the Head of Employee Relations and Policy to ensure courses are informative and up to date, whilst utilising mostappropriate mediafor delivery.
• Share learning and good practice with colleagues across the OD & People Division to ensure consistency of HR practice and advice across the Trust.
• Tomaintainpatient safety through rigorous and consistent compliance with Trust policies for the prevention and control of infection, including hand hygiene. To undertake mandatory annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.
• To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in compliance with Trust and staff responsibilities under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004; to follow Trust safeguarding children and child protection policies and guidelines and undertakeappropriate mandatorytraining and updates in safeguarding children/child protection.
• To respect and value the diversity of our patients, their relatives, carers and staff by committing to address the needs and expectations of the diverse communities we serve to provide high qualitycare, andstrive to make best use of talents and experience from our diverse workforce.
• By following Trust Policies in relation to Safeguarding Adults, staff will ensure that they work with other agencies to protect all adults from abuse at any time.

Skills Knowledge and experience

• CIPD Qualified to level 5 or working towards this qualification and a member of the CIPD.
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Previousemployee relations experience of successfully managing complexcases includingabsence, grievance, discipline and bullying and harassment.
• Experience of interpreting and advising on terms and conditions,policiesand procedures.
• Experience of mentoring and coaching managers on HR aspects of their roles
• Experience of developing and delivering training courses.
• Ability to plan, prioritise,implementand meet targets in a complex and pressured environment, whilst producingaccuratework with minimum support.
• Ability to understand, analyse and manipulate HR data and present in a report format.
• Ability toidentifykey issues ina timelymanner.
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills.
• Analyses complex HR issues and makes decisions in relation to e.g. disciplinary action, grievance hearings, sickness counselling, interpretation of HR policies.
• IT skillsieword, excel and PowerPoint and the ability to manipulate, interpret and describe complex information