Senior HR Advisor

NHS Professionals; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Professionals seeks a Senior HR Advisor to join the Bank Member Human Resources Team in Hemel Hempstead. This key position offers high-level HR support, focusing on employee relations, mentorship for junior members, and collaboration with NHS Trust partners. The role promises a significant impact within the organization and the wider healthcare community.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Pension contributions up to 10%

Life Assurance

Wellbeing Programme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior HR advisory role, ideally within the NHS, healthcare, or public sector.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices.
• Experience handling sensitive and complex employee relations matters from start to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational HR advice on complex employee relations matters.
• Lead on the analysis and resolution of complex casework.
• Mentor and support junior HR team members.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Investigatory Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualification

CIPD Level 7 qualification (desirable)

Job description

About The Role

Senior HR Advisor – Bank Member HR Team
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Salary: £35,000 per annum
Full-time, Permanent

About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior HR Advisor to join the Bank Member Human Resources Team at NHS Professionals Limited. This is a key position providing high-level HR support and guidance across our organisation, with a particular focus on our flexible workforce.

Reporting directly to the HR Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a proactive, expert, and customer-focused HR service to internal teams and external stakeholders, including NHS Trust partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational HR advice to managers on complex employee relations matters including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals, and performance management, with a focus on flexible workers.

• Lead on the analysis and resolution of complex casework, assessing risk and recommending effective solutions in line with legislation, policy, and best practice.

• Represent HR as a senior panel member in formal hearings, ensuring procedural compliance, taking accurate minutes, and preparing supporting documentation and correspondence.

• Support the HR Manager in driving consistency in HR practice and policy application across the organisation.

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Trust partners and internal stakeholders, acting as a key point of contact for HR-related matters.

• Contribute to HR policy development and the implementation of workforce initiatives that enhance the management of flexible workers.

• Mentor and support junior HR team members as needed.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced HR professional who is confident in their expertise and ready to take ownership of high-level casework and advisory responsibilities. You will have:

• Proven experience in a senior HR advisory role, ideally within the NHS, healthcare, or public sector.

• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build credibility at all levels.

• A solutions-focused mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience handling sensitive and complex employee relations matters from start to resolution.

• CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience); Level 7 desirable.

Why Join Us?
At NHS Professionals, you'll be part of an organisation that truly makes a difference. We support the NHS by helping Trusts manage their flexible workforce efficiently, and we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative, respectful, and supportive working environment.

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If you're ready to step into a senior HR role that makes an impact every day, we’d love to hear from you.

About The Candidate

To be successful in this post you will need to have:

• Excellent interpersonal and intrapersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong investigatory skills
• Good analytical skills.

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

• Generous annual leave allowance- 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
• A commitment to talent management & development
• Values Star of the Month!- Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
• Pension– We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Wellbeing Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP)run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

We are particularly proud of being the first NHS organisation to gain the accreditation ofTop Employerby the Top Employers Institute. This is ahuge testament to our ongoing commitment to making NHSP a great place to work for all our corporate employees.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:

• To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
• To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does
• To ensure we create a psychological safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best

We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.