People Services Advisor

St John Ambulance; United States; Hybrid; USD 37,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Hybrid/flexible working

33 days holiday (pro rata)

Free first aid courses

Mental health courses

Discounts (Blue Light, NHS)

Cycle to work

Wellbeing tools

Volunteering days

Job summary

St John Ambulance is seeking a People Services Advisor to support senior managers across engagement, policies, inductions and development reviews. The role offers hybrid working with travel as required and a compelling benefits package.

The successful candidate will coach managers, guide change programmes, and work with TUPE knowledge where relevant. A strong people-facing skill set and an adaptable, proactive approach are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in generalist People areas across employee life cycle.
• Ability to advise managers on engagement, policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Guide and advise managers on informal sanction alternatives, coaching and mentoring.
• Support casework from initial conversations through to final internal stages, including appeals.
• Provide best practice advice on recruitment matters.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Initiative

Job description

Salary: £27,795.00 - Rest of England £30,906.00 - London

Do you want to make a difference and be part of a vibrant and inclusive organisation that has been helping save lives for more than a century? As one of the country’s best-loved charities, St John Ambulance played a pivotal role in responding to the pandemic as well as ‘everyday’ health emergencies, training, supporting communities, and improving young people’s lives.

We currently have a full time role of 35 hours for an experienced People Services Advisor, you will work closely with the our People Leads, Strategy Partners and wider Advisor team, providing general Advisor support as required, As a People Services Advisor you will be responsible for providing advice, guidance, and support to senior employee managers on all aspects of engagement, policies and procedures including recruitment, inductions, development reviews, disciplinaries and grievances, change management programmes which will include consultation responsibilities.

You will help our managers champion our values as well as help them to better manage their people supporting through coaching and guiding when needed. You will also liaise with our My Support Service teams to help implement important changes to process and support,

Location can be anywhere, and hybrid working is possible, travel from time to time will be required.

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work-life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. The role benefits from a competitive salary, generous pension, hybrid/flexible working, 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) ( pro rata based on hours)- increasing to 38 days over 5 years, options to buy and sell holiday, free first aid and mental health first aid courses, Blue Light and NHS online shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme, lifecare, mental health and wellbeing tools and volunteering days.

About You:

We are looking for someone with initiative, good interpersonal & communication skills, and the ability to build professional relationships is a must. As is the ability to work in a diverse, flexible, and fast paced environment which will need you to travel both locally and across the country as required

You will be able to demonstrate sound experience of working in a range of generalist People areas, working with stakeholders across a number of different functions to resolve situations quickly and effectively and advising both managers and employees/volunteers on a range of generalist People and Culture queries across the life cycle of an employee, also supporting change management programmes, consultation and experience of TUPE would be useful.

About The Role:

Guide and advise managers on alternatives to formal sanctions, with the intention of resolving matters at an informal stage such as coaching, training, mentoring, mediation.

Support and advise managers on casework matters from initial conversations through to final internal stages of processes up to and occasionally including appeal.

Provide best practice advice on all recruitment matters

About Us:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,500 employees and over 30,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes).

Find out more about us, including our Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk

St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive; we have several networks including the Armed Forces, Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equity, diversity and inclusion.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.

Please note St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only consider CVs submitted for an advertised role.