Band 5 HR Advisor

Job overview

This is an exciting time to join the Trust with significant opportunity to make an impact through the introduction of new and improved ways of working and support the whole trust on Employee Relations matters.

We have 2 vacancies - one permanent and one fixed term until 19/09/2023

The successful candidate will have the ability to build effective working relationships with Trust colleagues, demonstrate good communication and demonstrate a range of generalist HR knowledge and experience with up to date knowledge of employment legislation and have relevant skills and experience developed within a front line, generalist HR role. Applicants must be educated to degree level or equivalent and hold CIPD Level 3 Certificate and ideally will either have, or be working towards their CIPD Level 5 Certificate.

For further information/informal discussion please contact Sindhu Ahuja, HR Manager on 07768432351, sindhu.ahuja@uhb.nhs.uk

The post involves hybrid working and the expectation is that they attend on-site at least once a week. There is an expectation that they will work across all four hospitals sites when required.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The Employee Relations team is part of the wider Workforce Directorate and provides support and advice in respect of Employee Relations issues across all sites within the Trust (i.e. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Solihull Hospital/ Community services).

This role offers the opportunity to proactively support the management of Employment Relations cases - in particular Sickness Absence cases as well as Disciplinary, Grievance and Performance Management cases. You will also deliver online or face to face training and provide general advice to managers within the Trust on matters relating to employment policy and procedure.

• Support managers to reduce sickness absence through active management of long and short term sickness cases.
• Work towards carrying a caseload of investigations into employment matters including disciplinary, grievance and harassment issues and support managers in performance management issues.
• Ensure the provision of advice to all managers within the Trust regarding all aspects of employment policy and procedure for all categories of staff, as well as associated post-employment issues.

The post holder will work closely with a Senior HR Advisor who will ensure that you are fully supported and developed to gain valuable experience, knowledge and skills to deliver within this role. You will also be provided with opportunities to challenge and stretch your abilities.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Holds or is working towards Level 5 CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) (E)

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience in an HR Department including providing HR advice (E)
• Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports (E)
• Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice (E)
• Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development (E)

Desirable

• Experience of working in partnership with Trade unions. (D)

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with fully developed persuasion, negotiating and influencing skills (E)
• Ability to work autonomously, without direct supervision and as part of a team (E)
• Good IT skills (to include as a minimum: Word, Excel, PowerPoint) (E)
• Ability to interpret and apply Terms and Conditions of Employment (E)
• Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently (E)
• Ability to gain and maintain credibility and establish good working relationships with staff at all levels across the organisation (E)
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner (E)
• Able to pay attention to detail (E)
• Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice (E)
• Able to concentrate with frequent interruptions and where work is unpredictable(E)
• Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances, frequently when imparting information e.g., discipline, sickness(E)
• Proactive with the ability to work on own initiative, responding to immediate requests (E)
• Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations. (E)
• Proactive and self-motivated. (E)
• Ability to work across all Trust sites. (E)

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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.