Senior HR Advisor

Job description

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Job overview

Senior HR Advisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior HR Advisor to join the People team at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the heart of London.

St Bartholomew's Hospital is the oldest in the country is home to Barts Heart Centre, the largest specialist cardiac Centre in the UK as well as the St Barts Cancer Centre, a leading treatment Centre.

At St Bartholomew's Hospital, we are known for our excellence and innovation and we want the People team to follow this lead. This excellence was recognized in the latest Care Quality Commission inspection, where the strong and supportive leadership was rated as Outstanding. Every single service was rated as Good, with inspectors praising the strong medical and nursing leadership, and the "positive and collaborative" culture.

As a business partnering function, you will work closely with all services on the site including cancer, cardiac, respiratory, fertility and endocrine. You will support the HR Business Partners in delivering a customer focused service and will be the first point of contact for managers and staff with queries and concerns. You should have a good knowledge of employee relations processes - delivering advice to managers with confidence in line with policy and case law. You will also be given specific projects to stretch your skills and abilities to help develop you further within the advisory role, along with receiving relevant training to support you as you grow.

Main duties of the job
• Reporting to the HR Manager and with matrix leadership from the People Partners for Corporate Services, the post holder will ensure the provision of professional, customer-focussed HR advice, coaching and solutions to designated Directorate/Services across Bart's Health.
• To ensure Corporate Trust People policies and procedures are translated and applied locally within operating frameworks.
• Working in partnership with managers to develop and deliver an effective employee relations service at the Bart which is a crucial element of the overall People Strategy that will deliver an approach to people management that embodies a people-centered culture of learning.
• This role is responsible for supporting the management and co-ordination of the employee relations casework, ensuring that case work is carried out consistently in an effective and efficient way in accordance with Barts Health policies and procedures, current legislation and best practice

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level education or equivalent experience
• CIPD or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across a range of HR
• Track record of providing HR advice to services and managers in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Experience of advising managers on employee relations matters eg: disciplinary, grievance, sickness, capability including complex cases with minimal supervision
• Experience of working as an HR Advisor in a large complex organisation with union recognition
• Experience of supporting change management
• Experience of developing through coaching/training on a range of People policies

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with performance metrics/data to guide and direct strategy
• Experience of working at HR Advisor level in the NHS

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Current knowledge of employment legislation, case law and good HR practice
• Understanding of key current issues in human resources and the ability to interpret and apply the knowledge to People strategies

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of NHS People Strategy

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to self manage and prioritise conflicting demands
• Proven effective problem solving ability
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels, along with interpersonal and collaboration skills
• To be impartial when providing clear and concise written and verbal communication to staff members at all levels
• Have empathy when receiving or providing sensitive, personal, distressing and confidential information.
• Be tactful, persuasive and able to influence when handling complex situations
• Ability to use Microsoft office and input and manipulate data
• Leadership - fostering powerful and productive working relationships internally and externally. Be able to motivate and enthuse others

Other

Essential criteria

• Commitment to helping to provide equitable services for all health service users and NHS staff
• Commitment to the principles of lifelong learning and continuous professional development
• Calm, empathetic and logical when faced with urgent and stressful situations
• Proven ability to effectively manage a range of situations that may evoke a strong emotional reaction
• Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines with frequent interruptions

Visa Sponsorship Information

This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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