HR Helpline Agent

We are continuing to improve our service and are seeking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic HR Helpline Agents. This is a varied and enjoyable role, where you will be providing initial advice and supporting staff across 2 acute hospital sites and several community facilities with HR queries and sickness absence.

Your working hours will be Mon-Fri 6am-10am. You will be required to work a minimum of 3 days in the office and the remainder at home.

You will provide a proactive and responsive first point of contact to staff contacting the Helpdesk.

You will respond to calls providing accurate and timely advice to staff and managers and on all types of absences and HR queries. You will provide clerical support to the HR Team, including work processing, photocopying, filing and general administration duties.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and have proven administrative and IT skills. You will be able to provide a high level of customer service, showing empathy and understanding in dealing with queries.

You will have general admin experience, including experience of working in a high volume environment and relevant NVQ 2 or equivalent.

You will respond to calls providing accurate and timely advice to staff and managers on all types of absences in accordance with internal processes and standard operating procedures.

You will be required to answer general HR queries, provide advice, guidance and support to staff and managers and where appropriate, direct both staff and manager to the correct function or resource in order to resolve their query.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- Key responsibilities:

- Provide accurate and timely routine advice to managers and staff on all types of absences in accordance with internal processes and standard operating procedures.
- Appropriately escalate more complex queries to the shift supervisor/operational manager for resolution.
- Provide a proactive and responsive first point of contact to staff contacting the Employee HR Helpdesk.
- Record absence on Health roster.
- Provide a high level of customer service, showing empathy and understanding.
- Use a range of systems e.g. ESR look up, Intranet, Microsoft Office suite and other HR Systems.
- For wider HR matters, answer general queries and where appropriate, signpost staff and managers to the correct function within HR or forward the query on their behalf.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.