Associate HR Business Partner

2 days ago

Slough Berkshire, United Kingdom Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a qualified HR professional looking for a role which can offer you a variety of strategic and project-based work? Would you like a role which can offer flexibility to coincide with your outside of work commitments?

We are now seeking a CIPD qualified, experienced HR practitioner to join our team to support in the Adults Mental Health division. We are looking for someone who has a generalist HR background, particularly employee relations as you will be working closely with the HR Advisor and overseeing the full range of the employee relations casework within the Mental Health Services Division. It is essential that you are able to demonstrate your experience of advising managers on complex employee relations casework up to and including dismissal, HR policies and organisational change.

This role will provide opportunities to work more strategically in supporting your services with workforce planning, change management and transformation, engagement and building leadership capability. You will also work closely with your People Business Partner to ensure that the services within your division are delivering their people priorities.

As a Trust we are big on staff development and grow your own and can in return offer you a wealth of both inhouse and external development opportunities including the opportunity to do Affina Team Coaching.

Main duties of the job

  1. Provide professional HR advice to all levels of managers across the full range of employee relations issues
  2. Oversight and supervision of band 5 HR Advisor
  3. Build and maintain credible relationships with Service Managers within the division ensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated in a confident way
  4. Act as a point of contact for managers and staff seeking advice on various policies, analysing queries to offer solutions
  5. Advise managers on recruitment processes, providing advice on the writing of job descriptions and person specifications

Your base will be Upton Hospital in Slough and you will have to go for regular team meetings either here or at London House in Bracknell. Additionally, there will be travel to other sites in Berkshire as required by the role. The rest of your role will be home based.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

  • Caring for and about you is our top priority
  • Committed to providing good quality, safe services
  • Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance
  • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
  • Generous NHS pension scheme
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  • 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
  • Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
  • Free parking across Trust sites

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

  • Degree or equivalent experience
  • A level 5 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience
  • Experience working in a generalist HR role with Employee Relations in a multi-skilled professional and unionised environment
  • Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact: Fran Langan on francisco.langan@berkshire.nhs.uk or Jen Simpson on jen.simpson@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Interview will be held on 6th Jan 2025

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent experience working within a generalist HR role
  • Working towards or holding a CIPD Level 7 qualification (or equivalent experience in a generalist HR role)

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working autonomously within HR in a multi-skilled professional and unionised environment.
  • Experience of working in a customer-driven service
  • Experience of providing employee relations advice within the NHS or similar public sector organisations

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Proven ability to interpret and advise on terms and conditions of employment
  • Sound and up to date knowledge of employment law
  • Understanding of the importance of confidentiality, data protection and information governance
  • Good understanding of HR best practice
  • Advanced keyboard skills and an ability to analyse and interpret data
  • Ability to prioritise workload
  • Ability to work under pressure in potentially stressful situations.
  • Ability to communicate sensitive information effectively with all levels of internal and external customers
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including verbal reasoning, presentation skills, influencing & persuasion skills.

Desirable

  • An understanding of NHS terms and conditions of service

Additional Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Human Resources, Upton Hospital, Slough, SL1 2BJ

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