Human Resources Manager - Employee Relations
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Job Summary
We have several exciting opportunities for highly motivated and innovative HR Professionals to join our dynamic Employee Relations team. If you are passionate about creating positive change and making a meaningful impact on both staff experience and patient care, we would love to hear from you.
Following a recent restructuring within Operational HR, we are in a transformative phase, offering several opportunities to grow and shape the future of our HR services. Our employee relations function plays a pivotal role in supporting the Trust's strategic objectives, ensuring we are recognised as both a great place to work and the employer of choice in our community.
Working within a fast-paced hospital setting, you will support a diverse workforce, including clinical and non-clinical teams, helping to create a positive, supportive, and highly performing workplace.
We are looking for proactive, knowledgeable, and committed HR Professionals who can drive this vision forward. The role is instrumental in delivering a high-quality HR service, supporting staff across the organisation to achieve meaningful outcomes aligned with the Trust's values so they can continue to provide outstanding care to our patients.
We operate a hybrid model of on-site and home working.
Locations: Cross site - Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
As our HR Manager, you'll work closely with the Head of Employee Relations and HR Business Partner to ensure our ER team provides a proactive, efficient, and fair service for managers and staff. This will include the provision of expert advice and guidance on aspects of employment law and best practice as well as the interpretation and application of employment terms and conditions, policies, and national directives. You will be responsible for managing employee relations caseloads, including supporting complex grievances, disciplinary, attendance management, civility, and performance cases.
Responsible for the management and development of Senior HR Advisors and HR Advisors, you will provide leadership and drive continuous improvement by empowering, motivating, and inspiring the team to deliver.
About Us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates, and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long-term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Date posted: 07 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 153-CO04198
Job locations: Poole Hospital and RBH, Castle Lane East, Dorset, BH7 7DW
Job Description
Responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Qualifications Essential
* Educated to Masters level plus professional HR qualification or equivalent level of experience and knowledge.
* Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
* Continuous Professional Development.
Desirable
* Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Technical Skills Competencies Essential
* Well-developed knowledge of current human resources practice and employment law.
* Experience in implementing and delivering HR and OD interventions.
* Experience in developing and implementing HR policies and practice.
Experience Essential
* Human Resources experience in a Senior HR Advisor or HR Manager role.
* Human Resources experience within the NHS or within another large public sector organisation that provides transferrable knowledge and skills.
* Significant experience in an operational generalist role, covering a wide range of HR responsibilities to include discipline, grievance, organisational change and restructuring, redundancy, and changing of terms and conditions of employment.
* Line management of staff.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Poole Hospital and RBH, Castle Lane East, Dorset, BH7 7DW
Employer's website: https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers #J-18808-Ljbffr