Human Resources Advisor - Community Care Division
Band 5
Main area: Human Resources
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-TWS6829030
Site: Kings Business Park, V7 Buildings, Town Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
Band 5 Community Care Division HR Advisor opportunity available within the workforce directorate.
We are looking for a motivated, experienced individual to join the Community Care Divisional HR Team.
The successful candidate will be an experienced HR professional, with the ability to provide excellent generalist HR advice to a wide range of teams, managers and senior managers within the relevant division.
Shortlisting planned for: 19 December 2024
Interviews planned for: 8 January 2025
Main duties of the job
An opportunity has arisen for an innovative and passionate HR professional to join our workforce directorate in the role of HR Advisor.
This role provides a fantastic opportunity to support our managers’ requirements to deliver perfect care. The postholder will be responsible for providing effective, proactive HR support and advice related to the operational management of services within the division and also support across the wider HR function as required.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key responsibilities will include provision of first line advice on Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and HR Policies and Procedures, together with supporting managers through a range of employee relations processes including management of attendance, disciplinary and informal resolution and will involve supporting review meetings, investigations and hearings.
In order to fulfil this ambitious role you will be CIPD qualified (or working towards) with the understanding of delivering a varied HR portfolio, in particular employee relations activity, ideally in a unionised environment, preferably in the NHS. A self-starter, with a keen values-driven commitment to the NHS, you will need to demonstrate an ability to work flexibly and deliver outcomes that meet the needs of the business. Confident in your ability to deal with people in all situations and negotiate and influence to reach agreement whilst demonstrating empathy, you’ll also need to be comfortable working in a timely manner and meeting deadlines when managing employee relations workload.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Working towards CIPD qualification
* CIPD
Knowledge / Experience
* Demonstrate a range of generalist HR knowledge and experience
* Experience of interpreting and advising on terms and conditions, policies and procedures
* Experience of providing advice and support to managers on HR related issues eg absence management, disciplinary, grievance.
* Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and good employment practice
* NHS or public sector experience
* Experience of administering the recruitment and selection procedures and interviewing
* Experience of employee relations gained within a unionised environment
* Experience of using and extracting information from HR Databases
Values
* Accountability
* Supports
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
Skills
* Effective verbal and written communication and influencing skills
* Effective presentation and organisational skills
* Able to communicate information to staff at all levels of the organisation
* Able to deliver training on HR policies and procedures
* Able to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
* Able to understand the HR issues arising from operational management issues and advise managers appropriately and persuasively on the course of action they should take.
* Able to work to deadlines and pay attention to detail
* Able to prioritise and manage own work
* Able to exercise initiative
* Computer literate and able to use MS Office applications
* Driving licence or ability to travel within the Trust in a timely manner
* Able to build positive relationships with managers, colleagues and Staff Side representatives.
* Able to maintain professional relationships with external contacts/organisations
Application Process
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
Name: Clare McNamara
Job title: Senior Human Resource Business Partner
Email address: clare.mcnamara@merseycare.nhs.uk
For further details/informal visits contact: Clare McNamara, Senior HR Business Partner on clare.mcnamara@merseycare.nhs.uk
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