Our People Team is committed to delivering Spire's purpose - making a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care. As a HR Advisor, you will provide expert HR advice and guidance to Spire colleagues and managers within the patient support centre to enable everyone to deliver our Purpose on a daily basis.
Main duties of the job
1. Driving effective workforce planning through regular workforce discussions with the hospital Senior Management Team.
2. Being an advocate of wellbeing for the hospital and Spire, promoting all relevant tools, support mechanisms, and communication channels on a regular basis.
3. Actively managing absence within the hospital to reduce short term absence and manage effectively long-term absence. Supporting managers in managing absent colleagues, ensuring the colleague feels supported whilst managing the departmental resource appropriately.
4. To provide high quality consistent HR advice in line with Spire policy, procedure, and best practice.
5. Supporting managers in performance management processes, disciplinary, grievance issues, attendance matters, and change management. Attending where required as HR support for the manager in such meetings and discussions.
6. Ensuring all employee relations issues are managed in a timely manner, prioritising workload. Making sure that diversity and equality, fairness, and consistency is applied to all discussions, decisions with managers and colleagues, whilst balancing the needs of the business.
7. To develop manager capability to implement and manage people policies and procedures.
About us
We are one of the UK's leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 38 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres, and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case, and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery. We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients. We are the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom.
Key Requirements
* Level 5 CIPD Qualification or equivalent
* Demonstrable experience as a HR Advisor or in another HR based role.
* Knowledge of HR functions and systems
* An understanding of employment laws and disciplinary/grievance procedures.
* Ability to identify and implement business-focused solutions.
* Aptitude for problem-solving and decision-making, alongside managing complex queries.
* Capability to build strong relationships.
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
* Ability to manage confidential information appropriately.
* High personal standards and quality of work output with outstanding organisational and time-management abilities.
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.
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