People Experience Coordinator

NHS Supply Chain; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare supplier in Nottingham is seeking a People Experience Coordinator. In this hybrid role, you'll provide friendly support to colleagues, ensuring smooth HR operations and contributing to a positive employee experience. Key responsibilities include assisting with onboarding, and responding to HR queries. The ideal candidate will have experience in administrative roles, a positive attitude, and basic knowledge of HR processes. We offer competitive salary, flexible working, development opportunities, and a range of employee benefits including bonuses and generous holidays.

Benefits

Annual bonus schemes

Generous pension scheme

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

1 day of paid well-being leave

Flexibility to work remotely

Access to training and development

Qualifications

• Experience in an admin, customer service, or HR support role is helpful but not essential.
• Basic understanding of colleague lifecycle milestones such as onboarding and probation.
• Basic reporting and Excel skills for tracking and validating data.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for general HR queries.
• Support key people processes like onboarding and contract updates.
• Help deliver employee engagement and recognition initiatives.

Skills

Admin experience

Customer service

Basic knowledge of UK employment legislation

HR technology and analytics

Collaboration skills

Ownership and follow-through

Respectful treatment of others

Job description

People Experience Coordinator

Function: People Experience

Location: Nottingham/Hybrid

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £28,489 with the opportunity to rise to £31,655 within 3 years.

Closing Date: 20th January 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a People Experience Coordinator to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

As a People Experience Co‑Ordinator, you’ll be a key part of our People Team, providing friendly and efficient support to colleagues across the business. You’ll help ensure that day‑to‑day operations run smoothly, assist with queries, and contribute to a positive employee experience.

You’ll underpin how colleagues experience the People Team day‑to‑day. This is a great opportunity to learn and grow in a supportive environment while making a real difference to how people experience work.

Every day you will …

• Be the first point of contact for general HR queries, providing helpful and timely responses or directing colleagues to the right person or resource.
• Support with key People processes including onboarding, off‑boarding, changes, contract updates, probation, absence tracking, and maintaining accurate employee records.
• Help deliver moments that matter—such as welcome packs, recognition initiatives, and wellbeing activities.
• Assist in updating documents, templates, and guides to ensure they’re clear and up to date. Collaborate with People Technology and Optimisation Lead to improve how we use systems and Microsoft 365 tools.
• Work closely with the People Experience team and other departments to support projects and improve ways of working. Support People Experience Leads and specialist teams (Reward, Talent and OE) with data or process coordination.

What can we offer you?

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in‑house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well‑being offering 1 day of paid well‑being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Experience in an admin, customer service, or HR support role is helpful but not essential.
• Passion for creating great people processes experience, with a basic understanding of colleague lifecycle milestones such as onboarding, probation, joiners, movers and leavers.
• Basic knowledge of UK employment legislation that impacts People Teams such as Right to Work, Contracts etc.
• Some knowledge of HR technology, analytics, and insight tools. Basic reporting and excel skills for tracking and validating data.
• Works well with others and contributes to a positive team environment.
• Open to feedback and keen to develop skills and knowledge.
• Takes ownership of tasks and follows through.
• Understands the importance of treating people with respect and care.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at [e-mail]

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.