We have several exciting opportunities for highly motivated and innovative HR Professionals to join our dynamic Employee Relations team. If your 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 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
As Senior HR Advisor, you will build key relationships with HR and wider People team, business leaders, stakeholders and trade union colleagues, actively embracing changes and taking accountability to deliver a complete value add HR provision, applying your senior HR knowledge to business challenges. You will ensure ongoing review and development of HR policies, procedures and practices whilst supporting in the development of our managers and systems and processes that enable efficient and effective ways of working.
You will support the supervision and development of HR Advisor(s) providing leadership, and driving continuous improvement by empowering, motivating, developing and inspiring the team to deliver.
You’ll have up-to-date knowledge and proven application of employment law relating to employee relations matters such as handling disciplinary, grievance and dignity at work issues within a large and complex organisation. You’ll also be able to identify interventions and solutions which minimise requirements for formal investigations and hearings. Our organisation is developing and so knowledge and evidence of supporting organisational change/TUPE will be required along with current or previous line management or supervisory experience.
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 and 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.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Feb 2025
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