Senior HR Advisor

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Harefield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in Harefield seeks an experienced HR professional to join their Business Partnering team. The role involves providing guidance on HR policies, analyzing workforce data, and supporting management capability. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and hands-on HR experience, especially in the NHS context. This position offers an opportunity to influence workforce outcomes and develop one's HR career within a dynamic environment dedicated to patient care.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience within an HR setting operating in a complex employment environment.
• Experience providing high-quality advice on disciplinary processes, grievances, and capability issues.
• Experience managing or supporting change programmes.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on Trust policies and employment legislation.
• Act as an interface between HR and Workforce Relations.
• Analyse workforce data to identify trends and recommend solutions.
• Develop and deliver training on HR topics for people managers.
• Support local people strategies and workforce planning.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to address complex issues

Tenacity and resilience

Experience in HR setting

Knowledge of NHS Agenda for Change

Analysing workforce data

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Business Partnering team, supporting the Heart, Lung, and Critical Care Clinical Group. Working in a small embedded HR team to be the key point of contact for managers across the Clinical Group. You will:

• Provide detailed advice and guidance on the interpretation of Trust policies, procedures and employment legislation.
• Act as the interface between the People embedded team and the Workforce Relations team.
• Analyse workforce data, including staff survey results for directorates, to identify trends, hotspots, and risks, and recommend proactive solutions.
• Work with HR Business Partners to develop and deliver training on a range of HR topics, building capability among our people managers. This may include delivering targeted training on an ad hoc basis to support hot spot areas.
• Use a coaching approach to develop management capability and confidence in handling people matters.
• Support and influence local people strategies, workforce planning, and change initiatives.

The role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your HR career, working with senior stakeholders and directly influencing workforce outcomes. We are looking for a dedicated, experienced, and agile HR professional, who is keen to take their next step in their career. You must be passionate about providing people focused support to a range of stakeholders across operational teams to support the creation and implementation of people plans that support the wider business strategy. To be successful you will need to be resilient, adaptable, initiative‑taking, thrive on challenge, and you will strive to make a positive difference in your work.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and the ability to address complex and sensitive issues with staff at all levels. You will need to display tenacity and resilience and possess the ability to inspire confidence in the managers you support. You must be able to evidence 'hands on' experience within a HR setting operating in a complex and challenging employment environment. Ideally you will have a good working knowledge of the NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service. Experience of providing high quality advice on sickness absence, disciplinary processes, grievance, capability and dignity at work issues is a must. In addition you will have experience of managing or supporting change programmes as well as advising on the implications of change. You must have experience of analysing workforce data with the ability to identify trends and hot spots to inform interventions with the directorate management teams.

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services. In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world‑leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world‑renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world‑leading research. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’. The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforce in the NHS.