Senior HR Advisor

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust; Dorchester; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

About

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust was formed on the 1st October 2020 when Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospital NHS Foundation Trust merged with Poole Hospital.

Hospitals covered by the Trust include: Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane East, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 7DW, Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole BH15 2JB, Christchurch Hospital, Fairmile Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2JX.

Contact

Key details

Location: University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites, Town: Bournemouth/Dorset, Postcode: BH7 7DW, Major / Minor Region: Dorset

Contract type & working pattern: Contract Permanent, Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum (pro-rata), Salary period: Yearly, Grade (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Human Resources

As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three site acute trust with university hospital status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m. We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff.

In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you'll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we're also less than three hours from London by road or train.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work. We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.

At UHD, our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group. As a Trust, we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

Job Overview

We have several exciting opportunities for highly motivated and innovative HR Professionals to join our dynamic Employee Relations team. If you're passionate about creating positive change and making a meaningful impact on both staff experience and patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Following a recent restructuring within Operational HR, we are in a transformative phase, offering several opportunities to grow and shape the future of our HR services. Our employee relations function plays a pivotal role in supporting the Trust's strategic objectives, ensuring we are recognised as both a great place to work and the employer of choice in our community.

Working within a fast-paced hospital setting, you will support a diverse workforce, including clinical and non-clinical teams, helping to create a positive, supportive, and highly performing workplace.

We are looking for proactive, knowledgeable, and committed HR Professionals who can drive this vision forward. The role is instrumental in delivering a high-quality HR service, supporting staff across the organisation to achieve meaningful outcomes aligned with the Trust's values so they can continue to provide outstanding care to our patients.

We operate a hybrid model of on-site and home working.

Locations: Cross site - Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

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As Senior HR Advisor, you will build key relationships with HR and the wider People team, business leaders, stakeholders, and trade union colleagues, actively embracing changes and taking accountability to deliver a complete value add HR provision, applying your senior HR knowledge to business challenges.

You will ensure ongoing review and development of HR policies, procedures, and practices whilst supporting in the development of our managers and systems and processes that enable efficient and effective ways of working.

You will support the supervision and development of HR Advisor(s), providing leadership, and driving continuous improvement by empowering, motivating, developing, and inspiring the team to deliver.

You’ll have up-to-date knowledge and proven application of employment law relating to employee relations matters such as handling disciplinary, grievance, and dignity at work issues within a large and complex organisation. You’ll also be able to identify interventions and solutions which minimise requirements for formal investigations and hearings.

Working for our organisation

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Please Note

Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Postgraduate diploma acquired through degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience
• CIPD level 5
• Graduate Member of CIPD or willing to become a member

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing complex Human Resources issues including sickness absence management, capability management, disciplinary management, grievances and attending hearings.
• Ability to analyse difficult situations/information and provide effective, timely solutions
• Demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of other key human resources fields e.g. recruitment & selection, terms & conditions and change management.
• Proven experience of working in a Human Resources Department undertaking an advisory role.

Desirable criteria

• NHS Experience within an HR generalist position
• Experience of delivering HR related training
• Experience of mediation and facilitation
• Experience of coaching managers

Technical Skills Competencies

Essential criteria

• Well organised, able to prioritise a diverse and challenging workload, as well as meeting tight deadlines whilst dealing with frequent interruptions.
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and best practice including equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion.
• Knowledge and understanding of current NHS initiatives and their potential impact on the Trust/NHS.
• Sound knowledge, understanding and experience of using IT systems, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

Documents

• JD (305.7) PDF KB
• PS (188.8) PDF KB
• DBS - FAQs (102.0) PDF KB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Paula Sansome, Job title: HR Manager, Email address: [email protected]