Reward and Recognition Advisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job description

In this role, you are accountable for:

1. Leading the continual review, development and implementation of the NHS Business Services Authority's approach to reward and recognition, ensuring to incorporate local and Business wide initiatives to have a holistic approach for the Business.

2. Continual development of our colleague benefit offering, ensuring this is clearly communicated to colleagues through regular promotions throughout the year. This will include research into the benefit landscape and what other businesses are offering so we can continuously evolve our benefits and be an employer of choice.

3. Continual review and development of our benefit platforms ensuring these are both customer and cost effective, and providing the best offering of service.

4. Developing and regularly updating our internal website and channels regarding reward, recognition and benefits to ensure information on these is easily accessible and providing a great user experience. This will include working with the Internal Communications team to actively communicate reward, recognition and benefits through a number of different effective channels.

5. Gathering feedback from within the Business and carrying out benchmarking external research into reward, recognition and benefit initiatives, providing data insight to inform and then action our future approach within the business.

6. Working with the Wellbeing and Inclusion team and Talent Acquisition Team to ensure our recognition and benefit schemes are in alignment with their strategic aims.

7. Providing an excellent proactive advisory service to managers and colleagues within the NHSBSA. This will involve coaching and supporting managers to be confident in reward, recognition and benefits, whilst applying your knowledge to business challenges to proactively support leaders in the delivery of the NHSBSA strategy and the reward and recognition elements within this.

8. Research, develop and advise on the practical application of Reward and Recognition policies and procedures. In addition, the Reward and Recognition Advisor will support the Reward and Recognition Lead in continually reviewing Reward and Recognition policies, ensuring these are legally compliant and fit for business needs.

9. Effectively managing and advising on the full Job Evaluation process within the NHSBSA, ensuring this is a consistent and time efficient process that supports the business and meets organisational priorities and customer needs. In addition, ensure the job descriptions that are submitted through job evaluation are well structured with appropriate content and occasionally participating as an active job evaluation panel member.

10. Working with the Reward and Recognition Lead and Senior HR Business Partnering team to support the NHSBSA approach to pay, which will include Agenda for Change pay progression, pay awards and additional payments.

11. Lead on the Colleague engagement survey from within the HR Team, from the initial data provision through to the breakdown of results and collaboratively working with the wider People team to ensure they have the data they need to progress as needed. In addition, you will work with the Senior Leadership team within the People Team on our survey results and resulting initiatives and actions.

12. Work collaboratively with the wider People team to achieve our strategic people aims, owning HR/People team projects (or parts of) and work streams, taking full responsibility and accountability for delivery, with direction and support from People Team leadership.

13. Continually developing your professional knowledge and skills by keeping up to date with external trends and best practice in the areas of expertise and HR more broadly. This will include keeping up to date on NHS developments, providing advice and interpretation on the implications of such changes, and cascading this knowledge within the People team

14. Building active internal and external networks/relationships/partnerships within the NHS and wider organisations, to share working practices and build innovative ideas and enable the function to be more effective.

15. Building our employer brand by being an ambassador for the NHSBSA though networking, speaking at events and partner relationships.

16. Being an active member of the wider People team, continually supporting team development and challenging the status quo to ensure a consistent, value adding People provision to leaders and colleagues. This will involve being an advocate of continual improvement within the People team, actively embracing changes and taking accountability for any on-going issues that you identify.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience in a full reward and recognition advisor role, working in a customer focused environment

• Significant experience of advising on reward and recognition policies and procedures, best practice within these areas

• Experience of providing business focused reward and recognition solutions

• Significant experience of interpreting and advising on the application of terms and conditions

Desirable

• Experience of working with NHS terms and conditions of service

• Experience of developing and delivering training

• Experience of working with pay information, and the skill to interrogate and analyse data

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience

• NHS Job Evaluation training

Desirable

• Assoc CIPD

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge of reward, recognition and benefits, and applying this within a working environment.

• Ability to develop inivativesolutions regarding reward and recognition to meet business need.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner

• Advanced communication skills in order to establish good working relationships with leaders and colleagues.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Agenda for Change and the NHS Plan

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience in a full reward and recognition advisor role, working in a customer focused environment
• Significant experience of advising on reward and recognition policies and procedures, best practice within these areas.
• Experience of providing business focused reward and recognition solutions.
• Significant experience of interpreting and advising on the application of terms and conditions

Desirable

• Experience of working with NHS terms and conditions of service.
• Experience of developing and delivering training. Experience
• Experience of working with pay information, familiarity with databases and the skill to interrogate and analyse data

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge of reward, recognition and benefits, and applying this within a working environment.
• Ability to develop innovative solutions regarding reward and recognition to meet business need.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
• Advanced communication skills in order to establish good working relationships with leaders and colleagues.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Agenda for Change and the NHS Plan.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification or experience
• NHS Job Evaluation training

Desirable

• Assoc CIPD

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Business Services Authority

Address

Stella House

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE15 8NY

Employer's website

https://careers.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)