University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
A fantastic vacancy has opened for an experienced and qualified people practitioner to join our team as a People Specialist, working within the People Services Team at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
The role of the People Specialist is to provide highly specialist advice, HR/OD coaching and consultancy services to the organisation. Working closely with Trust managers and colleagues within the People/HR directorate to ensure quality and synergy of service provision. To support service areas in maximising the contribution of staff to meeting organisational objectives.
The People Specialist also plays a crucial role in the management of employee relations and people-related activity, including complex casework, appeals, and employment tribunals. The People Specialist supports divisional managers and works closely with other HR Services team members as well as the divisional HR Business Partner and key divisional stakeholders.
The post-holder will be responsible for advising managers and ensuring that consistent, comprehensive, and complex people advice is provided to our customers in line with Trust policy, practice, terms and conditions, and employment legislation.
Please ensure that you show how you fulfil the essential and desirable criteria of the role in your application.
Main duties of the job
* Support the people delivery model by ensuring the People Specialist role and its interface with the divisions is clear, redirecting queries as appropriate to our internal HR web pages or to People Advisors.
* Work with other members of the People Services team and, as appropriate, with the HR Business Partners, to discuss, agree, and implement training, interventions, or actions.
* Manage a caseload of highly complex cases and oversee casework managed by the People Advisors.
* Ensure complex situations or cases are correctly analysed, interpreted, and risk assessed in order to provide the best advice or support.
* Analyse and assess complex ER situations such as sickness and absence, competence and capability, organisational change, redeployment and redundancy, disciplinary and tribunal cases, etc., and work with managers and the People Services team to consider the options and implications of managerial interventions in relation to these issues.
* Act as an autonomous HR practitioner in interpreting policies and in providing case management advice and guidance, seeking advice from peers, manager, or external sources if and when appropriate.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall, and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston, and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award-winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston; join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds: city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Job responsibilities
For a full and detailed job description and person specification please refer to the job description document attached to the vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Educated to Degree Level, preferably Masters level in HRM
* CIPD Fully Qualified (Level 7)
* Chartered Member or Fellow CIPD or willingness to reach qualification level
Knowledge and Experience
* Specialist knowledge of one or more HR topics to master's level acquired through qualification plus experience
* Significant generalist HR experience gained in a unionised environment, NHS preferable
* Experience of coaching managers
* Active in continuing professional development (CPD) and staying up to date with CIPD registration
* NHS experience in a similar role
Skills and Abilities
* Assesses and recommends courses of action on complex, specialist HR issues requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
* Plans implementation of HR strategies and change management programmes
* Developing and leading on advising on long-term strategic HR and business planning
* High levels of initiative
* Ability to work autonomously interpreting employment legislation and case law
* Ability to establish credibility with managers and staff at all levels
* Active listening, verbal and written communication skills, explaining complex issues clearly and concisely
* Ability to support, guide, reassure, and motivate managers
* Ability to coach managers in the use and interpretation of policies and casework
* Ability to handle difficult, complex, and highly emotional situations
* Working independently and as part of a team, ensuring team goals are met
* Self-awareness and willingness to undertake further training and development as needed
* Able to understand situations quickly
* Able to instil confidence in those being advised
* Aptitude for offering creative and innovative HR solutions
* Self-motivator with high standards for self and others
* Achievement oriented
* Drive and resilience
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.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working.
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