Senior HR Advisor

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Maidstone is seeking an experienced Senior HR Advisor to join their dynamic HR team. This role involves managing an operational caseload in employee relations, providing advice and support to HR Business Partners, and ensuring quality standards are met. Candidates should be CIPD L5 qualified or working towards it, with experience in an ER setting. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580 pro rata annually.

Qualifications

• Must be part qualified or have demonstrable equivalent experience in an Employee Relations setting.
• Experience in writing reports and letters.
• Ability to work on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Manage an operational caseload to quality standards.
• Provide advice and support to HR Business Partners.
• Handle grievance, disciplinary, and capability cases up to tribunal preparation.

Skills

Employee Relations management

Investigative skills

Knowledge of Employment Law

Report writing

Initiative

Education

CIPD Level 5

MCIPD Qualified

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Senior HR Advisor

The closing date is 25 September 2025

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.

To take the lead on specific areas e.g. Agenda for Change, Equality and Diversity, Recruitment, and HR communications as directed by the Employee Relations Manager.

Main duties

• 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 us

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 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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Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge

• CIPD L5 or working towards/willing to work towards
• Must be part qualified as minimum or have demonstrable equivalent experience in an ER setting
• Experience in writing reports/letters
• Knowledge of Employment Law
• Is a trained investigator
• Can work on own initiative
• MCIPD Qualified

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata per annum