NHS North East London

Senior People Advisor

The closing date is 10 November 2025

Job summary

With a track record of providing first-class and timely HR advice to services and managers in a multidisciplinary team environment, the Senior People Advisor has a key role in collaborating with colleagues to deliver support and interventions at strategic and operational levels. All the team's activities are closely aligned with the NHS People Plan and other relevant strategic frameworks, including the Workforce Race Equality Strategy.

Main duties of the job

In the Senior People Advisor role, you provide a pro-active professional HR service to the ICB, across all employment matters, and provide specialist advice on a full range of generalist HR issues. In particular, your experience and expertise will be proven as you:

o Promote a positive, proactive approach to people management in the ICB, advocating for an open, fair and transparent employment relations environment

o Develop partnerships with trade union representatives and managers to achieve a Just and Learning culture

o Provide high quality, consistent HR advice and coaching/training to line managers in investigating, presenting and resolving employee relation issues, ensuring consistent application of employment law and best practice

o Contribute to developing and reviewing HR policies through research and best practice, and use specialist knowledge to interpret policies and procedures

o Maintain the employee relations ER Tracker for your own caseload, analysing and interpreting data and information to provide casework statistics and progress reports

o Remain calm, empathetic and logical when effectively managing a range of situations

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£46,419 to £55,046 a year Per annum including HCAS

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

161-NELICB-2848

Job locations

20 Churchill Place

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for full duties and responsibilities.

*Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a high volume of applications*

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for full duties and responsibilities.

*Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a high volume of applications*

Person Specification

Knowledge, training and experience

Essential

  • Degree level education or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across a range of HR activities
  • Track record of providing HR advice to services and managers in a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or working towards
Person Specification

Knowledge, training and experience

Essential

  • Degree level education or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across a range of HR activities
  • Track record of providing HR advice to services and managers in a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or working towards

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

NHS North East London

Address

20 Churchill Place

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ


Employer's website

https://northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS North East London

Address

20 Churchill Place

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ


Employer's website

https://northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Senior People and Culture Partner

Fiona Corry

fiona.corry1@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£46,419 to £55,046 a year Per annum including HCAS

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

161-NELICB-2848

Job locations

20 Churchill Place

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HJ


Supporting documents

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