Senior HR Advisor

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization in Maidstone is seeking a highly motivated Senior HR Advisor to provide a comprehensive Employee Relations service. You will manage operational caseloads, support change management initiatives, and ensure adherence to quality standards. This role requires strong skills in job analysis and investigation, aimed at delivering exceptional HR services within the Trust.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing an operational caseload to quality standards.
• Ability to provide professional advice and support to HR Business Partners.
• Proficient in handling grievance, disciplinary, and capability cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage an operational caseload, ensuring cases meet quality standards.
• Provide advice and support for change management initiatives.
• Prepare documentation for hearings in conjunction with managers.

Skills

Employee Relations service

Change management

Investigation and documentation preparation

Job analysis

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior HR Advisor to join our dynamic HR team. To provide a professional, comprehensive, and timely Employee Relations service to Directorates or Corporate departments and to ensure the HR Business Unit delivers an exceptional, professional, effective, and efficient service to the Trust as measured by internal service level agreements or key performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Manage an operational caseload, ensuring cases are managed to quality standards
• Provide an objective and professional approach regarding job analysis
• Support HR Business Partners in all aspects of change management to ensure that change, where possible, is planned, managed and implemented in accordance with Trust policies
• Support HR Business Partners and where required deliver HR training
• Provide advice and support to HR Business Partners as appropriate.
• Monitor trends in employment practice/caseload within KMPT
• Handle referred individual grievance, disciplinary and capability cases, in addition to organisational change through all formal stages up to and including preparation for tribunal and other legal proceedings.
• Be actively involved in investigations, including the preparation of all documentation for hearings in conjunction with managers.
• Assist in the development and review of employment policies, including response to legislative changes

About KMPT

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas. You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones. The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our approach

Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Contact for details

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marne Cheeseman
Job title: Deputy Chief People Officer - HR Operations
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07500092129