Senior HR Advisor

Sussexcommunity; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in the NHS is seeking two Senior HR Advisors to join their Employee Relations Team. The successful candidates will manage complex employee relations cases, provide guidance to managers, and support the development of HR policies. This role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires significant HR experience, particularly in a unionized environment. Candidates should be CIPD qualified and possess strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing complex employee relations cases.
• CIPD qualified with extensive HR experience in a complex organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide ER advice and guidance to managers across a multi-site organization.
• Manage a high volume of ER case work autonomously.

Skills

Employee Relations

Coaching

Change Management

Communication

Education

Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Tools

HR/Payroll Database

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are looking for two experienced, pro-active, knowledgeable and committed HR professionals, with experience of working on complex employee relations cases, to join our Employee Relations Team supporting our Corporate and Estates & Facilities Directorates.

Are you looking to be part of a strong team working in an organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people and are you passionate about our NHS service? We are looking to appoint two Senior HR Advisors who are able to join our team and immediately contribute to the development of achieving Outstanding in all areas.

We are looking for two highly motivated Senior HR Advisors able to demonstrate significant experience of successfully self-managing a varied and demanding caseload including; formal conduct and dignity at work investigations, disciplinary hearings, grievance hearings, performance and absence management, management of change, all whilst delivering front line employee advice and guidance to line managers and Senior Leaders within Corporate Services and Estates & Facilities . You will need to be able to keep to clear timeframes, manage your own workload and advise on risk mitigation by applying up-to-date knowledge of best HR practice, latest case law and legislations.

There are two vacancies totalling 1.53 WTE with flexible opportunities for both full time and part time hours.

This vacancy offers hybrid working, but you will be expected to come into the office and travel when required.

Interviews will take place week commencing the 19th of May.

Main duties of the job

This is a highly interactive position that requires a degree of autonomous working. You will work within an experienced Senior HR Advisor team providing cross-cover and developmental support to HR Advisors.

As a Senior HR Advisor, you will build key relationships within the People Directorate and within the Corporate and Estates and Facilities Directorates along with the wider Trust business leaders, stakeholders and trade union colleagues. Actively embracing change, you will take accountability to deliver a complete value added Employee Relations service, applying your senior HR knowledge to business challenges. You will work in a way that is able to identify interventions and solutions which minimise requirements for formal investigations and hearings and that supports practices that are resolution and learning focused. You will ensure ongoing review and development of HR policies, procedures and practices whilst supporting the development of our managers and systems and processes that enable efficient and effective ways of working.

You will ideally be CIPD qualified and have significant experience of providing Employee Relations advice in a unionised environment. You should have a good up to date knowledge of UK employment legislation and be proficient in the use of all Microsoft Office packages. NHS experience is desirable.

This vacancy offers hybrid working, but you will be expected to come into the office and travel when required.

About us

The post holder will work as a key senior member of the team, to ensure a comprehensive, quality and timely Employee Relations service is provided to Corporate Services and Estates and Facilities in relation to all aspects of the employment cycle.

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

To be successful in this role you will share our passion, desire and empathetic approach to supporting people of all ages with complex mental health needs.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID and Flu.

Job responsibilities

We are committed to delivering the best care for our patients, through strong support for our colleagues in operational services. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate significant knowledge and experience of:

• Managing a high volume of ER case work with the ability to work autonomously and adapt your style to ensure resolutions and key learnings are optimised
• Coaching, partnering and developing management capabilities across the Division, including providing bitesize training for managers.
• Guiding managers and the Senior Leadership Team through the Change Management cycle. This includes advising managers on appropriate employment relations strategies for redeployment and redundancy issues, taking account of the sensitiveness related to the management of change
• Developing a collaborative relationship with Trade Unions and Staff Reps that promotes and supports a Just Culture approach
• Providing day to day ER advice and guidance to managers, across a multi site organisation, on all areas of employee relations including; grievance and discipline, absence management, performance management, termination of employment, equality and diversity, employment legislation and maternity.
• Advising managers on terms and conditions of employment.
• Providing effective advice and support to managers in formal investigations as well as supporting managers on disciplinary, dignity at work or grievance panels and where necessary giving evidence at an appeal hearing or Employment Tribunal.
• Developing Policy and Processes that support ongoing improvement of ER practice ; ensuring learning from regular case and case law feeds into this.
• Inputting information onto the HR systems in a timely way; ensuring that this information is accurate and in line with Sussex Partnership Policies and Procedures.
• Providing monthly reports on workforce information and trends

Interviews will take place week commencing the 19th of May.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or equivalent qualification
• Evidence of recent CPD

Knowledge & Experience

• Extensive generalist HR experience working within a complex organisation with exposure to a range of HR issues
• Experience of interpreting and advising on complex terms and conditions, policies and procedures
• Experience of using and extracting information from HR/Payroll Database
• Experience of working cooperatively with trade unions
• Experience of supporting managers in sickness, disciplinary and grievance matters
• Experienced and understanding of the scope and practical application of current and impending employment legislation
• Experience of introducing changes to working practices, policies and systems and sustaining improvements.
• Experience of job evaluation/grading systems
• Knowledge and understanding of key issues within the NHS and/or other public sector organisations
• Experience of Policy formulation
• Experience of management of change and workforce redesign/skill mix.
• Experience of A4C job evaluation system and terms and conditions.

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.

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearpa / pro rata for part time