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 Specialists 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 Specialists also play a crucial role in the management of employee relations and people related activity, including complex casework, appeals and employment tribunals. People Specialists support divisional managers and work closely with the 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.
• 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 agreed 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 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.
Please read the attached Job Description for full main duties and responsibilities.
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 which 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. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a full and detailed job description and person specification please refer to the job description document attached to the vacancy
This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025
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