Senior HR Advisor

Pilgrims Hospices; England; Hybrid; GBP 29,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare charity in East Kent is seeking a part-time Senior HR Advisor to provide expert HR guidance and support across various sites. This role involves advising managers on HR matters, developing HR practices, and delivering training. The ideal candidate will have experience in employee relations and a commitment to compassionate care. The position offers modern work environments, professional development opportunities, and is aligned with NHS pay rates.

Benefits

NHS pay alignment

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellbeing strategies

Free hospice parking

Discount programs

Qualifications

• Experience as an HR professional, particularly in a generalist role.
• Ability to provide complex workforce advice.
• Skills in training and developing managers.

Responsibilities

• Provide dedicated HR advice for employee relations and compliance.
• Act as a point of contact for HR issues.
• Support HR function and policy development.
• Deliver HR training to managers.
• Work with management to enhance organizational strategy.

Skills

Employee relations

Performance management

HR compliance

Training and coaching

Job description

Location: Pilgrims Hospices Canterbury

Status: Permanent, part‑time, 28 hours a week

Salary: £28,051.20 per annum

Closing date: 09/11/2025

About the Role

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a broad and interesting role where you can make an impact with your expertise? Pilgrims Hospices has an excellent opportunity suited to an experienced HR Advisor looking for their next step as a Senior HR Advisor. This role would offer the successful candidate the opportunity to develop their HR practice across a broad range of professional areas, developing experience in a generalist role while also providing specialist recruitment and clinical guidance to our staff.

This is a permanent, part‑time position for a Senior HR Advisor (28 hours per week) and is based at Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury. This is a role that operates across our hospice and retail sites in East Kent when required with some hybrid working possible. A working schedule that suits the right candidate can be discussed at interview. You will be provided with on‑site parking and subsidised meals during your work day.

Responsibilities

• Being responsible for allocated business areas providing dedicated, expert advice in relation to employee relations, absence and performance management and ensuring compliance with basic employment legislation and organisational policy.
• Acting as the first point of contact for managers within their dedicated business areas, including providing generalist HR advice.
• Providing advice to managers in relation to complex workforce matters and supporting performance management.
• Supporting in the development of the HR function, including reviewing policies and their application, use of our HR systems.
• Delivering training and coaching in HR practice, developing skills and management capability, ensuring managers are equipped with the appropriate knowledge and skills to succeed.
• Working in partnership with management to develop services and drive forward organisational strategy, delivering a tangible benefit to our service users.

About us

As an award‑winning employer, Pilgrims provides end‑of‑life care services to patients and their families across east Kent. Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families both in the community and in‑patient units.

Our Vision

Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values. To achieve our vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and charity that patients and their loved‑ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides our daily working and decision making.

Compassionate

We treat everyone with compassion and care.

Open

We communicate openly, honestly and effectively.

Dynamic

We are dynamic, improving and developing our service.

Empowered

We empower people to achieve their outcomes.

Other Benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our Hospices Offer

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing
• A good work‑life balance
• Locations across well‑populated areas of east Kent all providing very good road and rail links
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free hospice parking

How To Apply

To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached.

If you are interested in applying for the role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete the attached application form.

Job Types: Part‑time, Permanent

Pay: £28,051.20 per annum

Closing date: 9th November 2025