Are you an experienced HR professional ready to bring your expertise to employee relations in a dynamic, multi-skilled, and unionised environment?
We’re looking for a proactive, experienced HR professional to join our team supporting the Adults Mental Health division. This is a key role where your knowledge of employee relations will be instrumental in fostering a fair, supportive, and effective workplace.
You’ll supervise the HR Advisor and lead on the full range of employee relations casework, including advising managers on complex cases such as disciplinary actions, grievances, and dismissals, all within a unionised setting. Your ability to navigate policies, procedures, and organisational change with confidence and diplomacy will be vital in building strong relationships with employees, managers and union representatives alike.
Beyond casework, you’ll also have opportunities to contribute strategically. You’ll partner with the People Business Partner to support workforce planning, change management, and leadership capability-building across the division. Your work will ensure the service delivers on its “people priorities” while driving engagement and transformation.
We offer great development opportunities, including in-house and external development programs and the chance to undertake Affina Team Coaching.
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
• Provideprofessional HR advice to all levels of managers across the full range of employee relations issues
• Oversight and supervisionofband 5HR Advisor
• Build andmaintaincredible relationships with Service Managers within the divisionensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated in a confident way
• Act as a point of contact for managers and staff seeking advice on various policies, analysingqueries to offer solutions
• Advise managers on recruitment processes, providing advice on the writing of job descriptions and person specifications
Your base will beUptonHospitalinSloughand youwill have to go for regular team meetingseither here orat“London House”in Bracknell.Additionally, there will betravel to other sites in Berkshire as required by the role. The rest of your role will be home based.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Working towards level 7 CIPD qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Experience of supporting complex employee relations casework in a multi-skilled professional and unionised environment.
• Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’recommitted to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedon’thesitate tocontact:Fran Langanonfrancisco.langan@berkshire.nhs.uk orJen Simpsononjen.simpson@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so pleasesubmityour application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025
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