Senior People Advisor

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior People Advisor will provide a customer-focused, high quality, responsive
advisory service and provide a full range of HR support and specialist advice to
managers in their division supporting the development of a Just Culture to improve staff
experience.
The Senior People Advisor will be responsible for managing a complex people
management caseload including probation, sickness absence, disciplinary, grievance,
bullying and harassment and capability cases working proactively with managers to
agree outcomes and propose recommendations, ensuring that risks are dealt with
efficiently.
The Senior People Advisor will be a key role in the Divisional P&OD team, providing
advice to staff and managers in relation to a range of complex employment related
issues and will be required to make subsequent recommendations for development of
policy, flow-charts, templates and best practice guidelines. The P&OD directorate
employ a coaching approach in the delivery of advice to managers in order to build
confidence in dealing with complex people-management issues.
The Senior People Advisor will be expected to be expert on interpreting and advising
on policy so that balanced decisions can be made.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent. Significant operational HR experience.
• CIPD qualified at level 5 or higher, or equivalent sustainable experience
• Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of advising a range of stakeholders on a broad range of HR issues including sickness, disciplinary, grievance, bullying and harassment and performance management
• Proven experience and track record of supporting managers in the reduction of sickness absence across an organisation
• Recent experience of managing a complex caseload including change management and employee relations work
• Experience in supporting HR investigations
• Experience supporting and advising managers in presenting cases at hearings
• Experience of managing multiple complex ER cases from start to finish
• Experience in a development role which includes design and delivery training programmes to a variety of audiences
• Experience writing policy and procedures
• Experience delivering training

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Medical & Dental staff Terms and Conditions, especially MHPS (Maintaining High Professional Standards)
• Experience using a coaching approach to build competence and confidence in managers in dealing with people issues
• Facilitation/mediation skills
• NHS Terms & Conditions job matcher

Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable and broad knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and best practice in HR policies, principles and procedures and recent practical experience of its application.
• Understanding of & commitment to equality and diversity and "just culture" issues relating to people management and associated legislation
• Analytical skills, able to analyse information effectively identifying the causes of problems and proposing practical solutions to address them based on knowledge and application of policy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills engaging effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Very strong report-writing skills; able to offer critical feedback to managers to improve narrative

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• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
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