Leeds Teaching Hospitals

HR Manager - Engagement (XN07)

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Job summary

From the moment you join us, youll be at the forefront of enabling change and improvement to support our peoples experience and engagement, helping everyone to stay and thrive at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. This role offers an opportunity to strengthen our staff engagement, experience and retention initiatives, with a strong focus on involving and empowering our colleagues at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, using the voice of our people to inform continual improvement, which in turn creates huge variety in the work youll lead on.

Youll be supported along the way by our People Promise Manager, and colleagues across the wider Organisational Development and Culture team, part of Human Resources. Youll have the flexibility to work remotely as well as on site, with some flexibility in when you work, flexing based on the needs of the role or task at hand.

To excel as the Staff Engagement and Retention Lead in this role, you will possess the following skills and experience:

Motivated to work on your own initiative

Ability to take a strategic, analytical, and solution-oriented perspective

Leading and implementing successful changes using evidenced based practices

Confident with the analysis of data to inform change

Ability to motivate team members and coordinate resources and stakeholders in order to achieve project outcomes

Experience of driving and embedding change projects

Working with senior leadership teams to create and implement change

Main duties of the job

Key parts of your role as Staff Engagement Manager are:

- Working with and guiding teams, specialties and senior leaders who want to achieve a positive shift in the engagement of their people, to positively impact staff retention.

- Ensuring all our people have a voice that is heard through the successful delivery of our annual and quarterly staff surveys

- Communicating and advocating Trust-wide participation and use of our organisations Staff Survey and Pulse Survey

- Supporting and motivating members of the team to administer our Staff and Pulse surveys

- Working in partnership with our external survey providers to ensure successful partnerships and delivery

- Support the procurement and expenditure oversight of our external survey providers

- Ensure celebration and recognition of our long serving employees, working in partnership with our Communications team, to lead the delivery and continue to improve our Long Service Awards

- Supporting the delivery of our Trusts Staff Engagement Group, playing a pivotal part in driving forward improvement in engagement and retention across organisational divisions

- Analyse, diagnose and contribute to the delivery of organisational improvement activities and projects, in line with our organisations priority objectives and cultural ambition.

- Play a key role in driving forward a variety of Trust-wide improvement projects

About us

Youll be a key part of a large, supportive, and friendly Organisational Development and Culture team, consisting of expertise from a range of specialties, including Training and Development, Organisational Development, Equality and Diversity, Induction and Apprenticeships. This means theres always someone on hand to support you in whatever task you have at hand.

Furthermore, there are many organisational benefits youll have access to, including:

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Benefits:

Opportunity to work flexibly

Competitive annual leave allowance

Nursery care (3 onsite (or close by) day nurseries)

Salary Sacrifice Scheme (Lease car, Cycle to work scheme, Nursery LTHT nurseries only)

Option to purchase additional leave

Freedom to Speak Up Champions

Carers Passport

Health and Wellbeing Support and Guidance

Staff Networks

Pension and Total Rewards Statement

Cycle to Work Scheme

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Details

Date posted

14 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9298-HMR-0067

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF


Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide an internal HR & OD consultancy service to a range of Corporate and Clinical Service units within the Trust to support and promote consistent and effective people management and engagement thereby enabling the delivery of Trust objectives.

The post holder works when required, as an independent practitioner within broad policy guidelines and employment law, providing a HR & OD consultancy service to line managers within the Trust. Required to interpret policy and employment legislation in order to provide specialist advice and guidance, occasionally developing precedent for future best practice to meet the diverse range of situations presented. The post holders caseload will be a number of CSUs and similar management units, representing up to 3000 staff across a variety of occupational groups.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide an internal HR & OD consultancy service to a range of Corporate and Clinical Service units within the Trust to support and promote consistent and effective people management and engagement thereby enabling the delivery of Trust objectives.

The post holder works when required, as an independent practitioner within broad policy guidelines and employment law, providing a HR & OD consultancy service to line managers within the Trust. Required to interpret policy and employment legislation in order to provide specialist advice and guidance, occasionally developing precedent for future best practice to meet the diverse range of situations presented. The post holders caseload will be a number of CSUs and similar management units, representing up to 3000 staff across a variety of occupational groups.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent.
  • CIPD Level 7 Qualification

Desirable

  • CIPD Chartered Membership

Experience

Essential

  • Significant HR experience
  • In depth, thorough and up to date knowledge of rapidly changing employment legislation and case law.
  • The ability to interpret and analyse complex facts

Desirable

  • Organisational Development theory and Practice
  • Practical understanding of how large complex organisations work.

Additional requirements

Essential

  • Creativity and innovation in the workplace.
  • Ability to analyse problems and develop appropriate solutions.
  • Report writing skills for production of briefing papers, business cases, and other reports.
  • Ability to analyse trends and take appropriate action.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

  • Drive enthusiasm and a proactive approach to work.
  • Commitment to working in partnership with and supporting others.
  • Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation and communications skills.
  • Sound organisational skills, ability to effectively prioritise workload and manage multiple tasks.

Desirable

  • Project Management.
  • Policy development and revision.
  • Change Management.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent.
  • CIPD Level 7 Qualification

Desirable

  • CIPD Chartered Membership

Experience

Essential

  • Significant HR experience
  • In depth, thorough and up to date knowledge of rapidly changing employment legislation and case law.
  • The ability to interpret and analyse complex facts

Desirable

  • Organisational Development theory and Practice
  • Practical understanding of how large complex organisations work.

Additional requirements

Essential

  • Creativity and innovation in the workplace.
  • Ability to analyse problems and develop appropriate solutions.
  • Report writing skills for production of briefing papers, business cases, and other reports.
  • Ability to analyse trends and take appropriate action.

Skills & behaviours

Essential

  • Drive enthusiasm and a proactive approach to work.
  • Commitment to working in partnership with and supporting others.
  • Highly developed interpersonal, negotiation and communications skills.
  • Sound organisational skills, ability to effectively prioritise workload and manage multiple tasks.

Desirable

  • Project Management.
  • Policy development and revision.
  • Change Management.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF


Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF


Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Staff Engagement Manager

Rachael Meal

rachael.meal@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

14 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9298-HMR-0067

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF


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