Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Senior HR Adviser

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Job summary

Following the internal promotion of the existing postholder, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (28 hours per week) Senior HR Advisor to join our friendly and supportive team on a permanent basis.

You will be confident in providing credible and professional advice on all people related matters to both managers and colleagues across the organisation.

We encourage flexible workingand we are committed to supporting colleagues to achieve a positive work life balance.

Based at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, the role will also include a significant proportion of home working. The successful candidate will also need to be able to travel independently to our 3 main sites (Worcester, Redditch and Kidderminster) as required.

The post-holder will provide outcome focused, risk assessed advice and support managers in a wide range of employment relations issues including managing conduct, performance, sickness, equality and diversity, grievance and interpersonal disputes, ensuring all cases are resolved within policy timeframes.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the role is to provide HR advice and guidance for the Divisions in line with NHS Terms and Conditions of Employment and Trust policies.

To provide clear, consistent and practical advice that is in line with up-to-date and relevant employment law and trust policies and procedures. This covers all staff groups including the medical workforce. It will involve support to management on case investigations, advising panels at hearings, assisting the HR Manager with Employment Tribunal cases and work on policy development and implementation.

To aid the development of increased competence of line managers on day to day HR issues as they arise, to enable them to act confidently and consistently in line with policies and best practice without initial HR guidance. To assist line managers in achieving corporate goals by the most practical and efficient means.

To support the HRBP and HR Managers in implementing people and culture solutions within the Division including workforce planning, employee engagement, workforce performance, and employee relations.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Date posted

23 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year Pro-Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

C9365-24-0657

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Principal Duties/Responsibilities:

To provide operational service in all advisory aspects of human resource management to Trust-wide Directorates and Departments to help them achieve their operational and strategic objectives.

To act as a role model within the HR team and for the team both within the Trust and externally, demonstrating the Trust values at all times. To develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organisation including at a senior level.

To be flexible with regard to providing support across the Trust on a day-to-day basis, including cross cover in the absence of available HR colleagues including HR Managers, while using all available opportunities to equip line managers to deal effectively with day to day HR issues as they arise.

To take specific responsibility for particular areas of work including project management as required by the Human Resources Department, and to assist the HR Manager and HRBP in projects/programmes where directed.

To provide an advisory service on a daily basis to managers and staff on highly sensitive issues relating to Terms and Conditions of Employment, Human Resources policies, HR Framework, employment legislation, professional issues and good practice.

To provide an advisory service to managers and staff as required on Agenda for Change re-banding issues and act as an Agenda for Change Job Evaluation practitioner.

To communicate complex and/or sensitive issues, analysing, interpreting and applying current policy, best practice, employment legislation, producing and amending policies and briefings in line with evolving employment legislation and national NHS guidance, to staff and managers whilst showing empathy and understanding with regard to their circumstances.

To take the role of lead specialist on the provision of a highly comprehensive, proactive and professional HR advisory and coaching service to managers on the management of sickness absence cases (including redeployment issues, potential grievances, capability and disciplinary cases). This includes undertaking a defined case load, attendance at investigation interviews and hearings as part of the management side, providing HR support to panels at hearings, and ensuring the quality of written reports and documentation to achieve Trust targets.

To support managers to complete equality impact assessments providing specialist equality & diversity advice.

Support in the production of the WRES and WDES reports.

To work with HR colleagues, staff side representatives and managers across the Trust to oversee the timely co-ordination of hearings and investigation meetings.

To act as mediator in connection with potential bullying & harassment or grievance claims.

To provide advice in connection with both Agenda for Change and the Medical & Dental Terms conditions.

To support the HR Managers on the provision of advice, support and negotiation mechanisms with managers and staff in organisational change, ensuring organisational objectives are achieved within the agreed timescales, and where delegated, to lead on appropriate work streams.

To participate in recruitment and selection processes on an occasional basis.

To work closely with the wider HR team (including Training and Development and Occupational Health), line managers and other departments within the Trust as a whole, providing innovation, challenge and advice to facilitate delivery of an effective HR service .

To assist the HR Managers and HR Business Partners to ensure key workforce issues are fully considered and that effective long term plans are drawn up to develop the workforce to best and most efficiently achieve the Trusts objectives.

To assist the HR Business Partners and HR Managers to implement, monitor and revise workforce plans as required.

To work in partnership with the Training and Development Department, to deliver the necessary training to enable managers to utilise HR policies and procedures and any other training events conducted by the Human Resources Department.

To attend relevant Human Resources related meetings, such as the Equality and Diversity working group

To maintain up to date knowledge of NHS initiatives and employment legislation, by attending training programmes and/or seminars, as necessary.

Analyse and support the delivery of HR key performance indicators, including audit of these as and when required and updating HR databases.

To liaise as appropriate with internal and external contacts such as Trade Unions and professional bodies.

Ensure that the in-house case management system is developed, maintained and updated in an accurate, timely and efficient manner, logging all appropriate activity in line with data protection, employment legislation and Trust requirements.

Review and update HR Policies which impact employees throughout the Trust, researching good current HR practice and up to date employment law to inform policy development.

Provide day to day support and development to the Assistant HR Officer.

The purpose of this post should remain constant, but the duties and responsibilities may vary over time within the overall role and level of the post. The post holder may from time to time be asked to undertake other reasonable duties. Any such changes will be made in discussion with the post holder in the light of service needs.