Medical HR Advisor

Transformationunitgm; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the North London NHS Foundation Trust as a Medical HR Advisor. In this fixed-term role, you will support HR functions for medical staff, manage staffing requirements, and contribute to the Trust’s mission of improving mental health care. The position offers a friendly and diverse working environment, with a flexible working pattern and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Degree or professional HR qualification and membership in CIPD are essential.
• Experience working in HR with knowledge of medical and dental work is desirable.
• Ability to handle HR queries and maintain rotas effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support to the medical workforce in HR functions including payroll and recruitment.
• Manage temporary medical staffing requirements and ensure rota maintenance.
• Provide point of contact for medical staff regarding rota queries.

Skills

IT skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

HR qualification

Membership of CIPD

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Main area Human Resources Grade Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Subjective to Probation Period) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 455-NLFT-0168

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site All North London NHS Foundation Trusts sites Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

Medical HR Advisor

Band 5

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

We are seeking a friendly and exceptionally well organised person with excellent IT and communication skills to work in the Medical HR Team across the newly formed North London NHS Foundation Trust to support the HR function of medical staff.

The post holder must be able to work as part of a team and be professional and flexible in their approach to their work. They will be able to communicate with colleagues at all levels and remain calm when working under pressure. The ability to use software and spreadsheets with accuracy is absolutely essential and knowledge and experience of medical and dental terms and conditions is desirable.

The role will be challenging but exciting and you will be well supported in your role. If you feel that you have the knowledge, skills and experience to be a success in this role, we look forward to receiving your application. In return we can offer a flexible working pattern from day one. The current team follow a hybrid pattern of working currently coming in 2 days per week and the post holder will have to travel to both St Ann's hospital and St Pancras hospital however if this is not suitable for the right candidate this can be negotiated as we are flexible working friendly and understand not everyone can travel.

Main duties of the job

The role of medical hr advisor involves providing support to the medical Workforce in the provision of a range of medical HR and medical staffing support services, processes and procedures including the booking of temporary medical staffing and medical HR administrations such as payroll and recruitment. The role also involves ensuring the distribution and maintenance of the out-of-hours rotas, daytime medical rotas and that temporary cover is sought in a timely manner for staff. To provide a point of contact for doctors in training regarding especially rota queries and other contractual issues.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• Specialist knowledge in relevant areas of human resources acquired through degree or professional HR qualification.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a complex organisations and a knowledge of ESR.
• Experience of Medical Staffing in a large organisation.
• Specialist HR knowledge, including current Employment and Data Protection legislation.
• Experience of working in a HR department providing day to day advice and guidance on people management issues.
• Experience of successfully building effective relationships and networks
• Experience of report writing and presenting.
• Experience of using Microsoft Office.
• Experience of working in other public/private sectors.

Role/Team specific requirements

• Resilient with the ability to maintain performance under pressure.

Personal Characteristics

• Developed persuasive, influencing, negotiation, motivation, empathetic, reassurance, diplomacy and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership qualities and Personal commitment.
• Vision and strategic thinking.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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