Employer: James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: James Paget University Hospital
Town: Great Yarmouth
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children’s service.
Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:
* Putting patients first
* Aiming to get it right
* Recognising that everybody counts
* Doing everything openly and honestly
‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England'
Job overview
Our People and Culture (HR) Business Partner Team provide professional, timely advice, coaching and guidance to all line managers and employees. As part of this team, our Senior HR Advisors are crucial to providing excellent, best practice and legally knowledgeable advice.
Alongside day to day business, this is an exciting time to join the Team by leading on transformational projects to support the James Paget and the NHS deliver the best patient care we need in the future.
We work flexibly and are supportive of our Team’s development as well as your development as an HR Professional.
The NHS is a large, complex and fast-paced organisation which means our work is interesting, challenging and rewarding.
As part of our People Promise to our employees, we want you to help us continue to deliver an excellent HR service that we can all be proud of as a Team.
Main duties of the job
* Working collaboratively with key stakeholders including our Trade Union colleagues.
* Supporting Senior Leaders and line managers in all areas of people management, including employee relations.
* Ability to build strong relationships and be adaptable in your approach.
* Prioritise wellbeing, compassion and inclusion of all our colleagues, whilst using your initiative and judgement to support managers with their decision making.
* Championing best practice, adherence with employment law, our values and behaviours.
* We are looking for a CIPD qualified candidate and/or relevant professional qualifications.
* Previous experience of providing advice and support to leaders and staff on a wide range of HR operational issues, including formal casework, interpreting and applying knowledge of employment law.
* Comfortable interpreting and working with data, to develop understanding and insight, informing solutions.
* Act as a role model both within the Trust and externally, demonstrating our Trust values and behaviours at all times.
* Able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with key stakeholders to improve our patient and staff experience.
Working for our organisation
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an acute hospital providing direct patient care to our local community of Great Yarmouth and Waveney. Our services range from reactive care such as our Accident and Emergency (A&E) Team, to elective surgery to proactive health care. By joining us you can make a real impact on people’s day to day life and wellbeing.
We support a modern approach to work, flexible working patterns and hybrid working. The James Paget is a 24-7 hospital and it is important that regular on-site working is possible for you. We would welcome an informal discussion about this anytime during our recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description (JD) for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post and to support your application.
To find out more about our work please visit: Work for Us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* CIPD qualified or part CIPD qualified and willing to work towards Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel and Development with equivalent and recent level of knowledge and experience.
* To hold the CIPD (Level 5) qualification.
Experience & Knowledge
* A comprehensive knowledge of employment law, professional workforce developments and best practice.
* The ability to draw upon professional knowledge to analyse workforce cases and provide appropriate advice balancing individual and organisational needs and risks.
* Good understanding of equality and diversity issues.
* Commitment to improving and expanding own knowledge through continuous personal and professional development.
* Demonstrates the momentum and ability to ensure that workforce interventions directly contribute to the organisation’s objectives.
* Works effectively in complex and changing environments.
* Experience of working in a medium to large organisation.
* Recent previous workforce experience in supporting managers in employee relations.
* Knowledge and understanding of Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulations.
* Experience of undertaking formal ER casework.
* Knowledge of NHS policies and procedures.
Skills and Abilities
* Good level of written communication skills, with the ability to write business letters to a good standard.
* Ability to use own initiative.
* Excellent customer service skills, i.e. ability to effectively analyse and communicate issues, demonstrate professional behaviour, respond appropriately and in a timely manner, meet and strive to exceed expectations.
* Able to demonstrate their ability to translate business needs into creative workforce solutions.
* Potential leadership skills.
* Displays effective and adaptable interpersonal and influencing strategies including the ability to persuade others with personal conviction and facts.
* Communicate effectively to a range of groups and individuals.
* Display a passion for excellence and the role workforce can play in improving patient services and managing organisational change.
* Demonstrates an ability to translate this passion into effective outcomes.
* Excellent organisational skills.
* Fully conversant in Microsoft Office software.
* Able to put ideas across to a range of people either in a training situation or on a one to one basis.
* Skilled in building and developing relationships with a variety of groups and individuals from a range of backgrounds.
* Possessing accuracy and eye for detail required for ensuring correct key information is recorded and issued.
* Experience of provision of basic advice within established procedures.
* Friendly, approachable and confident, with a positive “can do” attitude to service provision.
* Self-motivated, but with a flexible and team-based approach.
* Ability to work autonomously.
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
‘Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England'
Tier 2 Sponsorship: We are pleased to consider applicants who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK but it is unlikely that we would be able to appoint if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK/Right to work candidate is available. Applying for entry clearance into the UK must provide 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) will also be subject to this requirement.
Please check your account regularly under “My Applications” to view the progress of your applications. If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
In submitting an application form, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
Please note that should we experience a high level of interest in this post, the vacancy may be closed prior to the stated closing date.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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