St Barnabas Hospices

Senior HR Advisor

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Job summary

The Senior HR Advisor will play a vital role in supporting the HR team in delivering comprehensive HR solutions to the organisation. You will collaborate with senior HR, managers, and employees to ensure a positive and productive environment, compliance with HR policies and procedures, and the achievement of strategic business goals.

Main duties of the job

You will be a HR generalist, preferably CIPD qualified, will have robust Employee Relations, experience gained in a high customer service orientated environment (ideally health care, NHS, retail or charity).

The people agenda is seen as high profile and the organisation takes it seriously. The personal skillset for this role is exemplary communication, interpersonal, organisational skills and the ability to inspire confidence and hit the ground running.

This role is offered on a 6 month fixed term basis.

Due to the location of both Hospices, access to your own transport is essential.

This role will be predominantly based at St Barnabas House, however, the team works across different sites and there may be requirement for you to work at Martlets or Chestnut Tree House to meet the needs of the service.

About us

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services. Our sister hospice, Chestnut Tree Tree House is a childrens hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer various family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

You will be joining our organisation at a very exciting time, as St Barnabas Hospices and Martlets Hospice are in the process of merging. Bringing our teams and resources together, as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

Details

Date posted

08 March 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£35,798 to £40,340 a year depending on depth and variety of experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0265-24-0024

Job locations

Titnore Lane

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 6NZ


Chestnut Tree House

Dover Lane

Poling

Arundel

West Sussex

BN18 9PX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description to view all the duties and responsibilities of this exciting new opportunity

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description to view all the duties and responsibilities of this exciting new opportunity

Person Specification

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Level 5 CIPD qualification

Knowledge

Desirable

  • Knowledge of health care/NHS sector desirable

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to undertake tasks, which demonstrate ability to work on own initiative.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, high standard of verbal and written communication, approachable and compassionate style.
  • Able to structure own workload and manage competing priorities.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.
  • Access to a car and full driving licence for travel between site locations

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in resolving complex HR issues
  • Exposure/Understanding of absence, performance, grievance, disciplinary management and change management.
  • Ability to deliver guidance to managers and staff on conditions of employment and employee relation issues including sickness absence, performance management, grievance and disciplinary investigations.
  • Experience working on employee relations cases and to have experience in disciplinary (up to and including dismissal), grievance, absence management, flexible working, maternity.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Level 5 CIPD qualification

Knowledge

Desirable

  • Knowledge of health care/NHS sector desirable

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to undertake tasks, which demonstrate ability to work on own initiative.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, high standard of verbal and written communication, approachable and compassionate style.
  • Able to structure own workload and manage competing priorities.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.
  • Access to a car and full driving licence for travel between site locations

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience in resolving complex HR issues
  • Exposure/Understanding of absence, performance, grievance, disciplinary management and change management.
  • Ability to deliver guidance to managers and staff on conditions of employment and employee relation issues including sickness absence, performance management, grievance and disciplinary investigations.
  • Experience working on employee relations cases and to have experience in disciplinary (up to and including dismissal), grievance, absence management, flexible working, maternity.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.

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 details

Employer name

St Barnabas Hospices

Address

Titnore Lane

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 6NZ


Employer's website

https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Barnabas Hospices

Address

Titnore Lane

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 6NZ


Employer's website

https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Team

hr@stbh.org.uk

01903706317

Details

Date posted

08 March 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£35,798 to £40,340 a year depending on depth and variety of experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0265-24-0024

Job locations

Titnore Lane

Worthing

West Sussex

BN12 6NZ


Chestnut Tree House

Dover Lane

Poling

Arundel

West Sussex

BN18 9PX


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