Senior People Consultant

Job Ref: 270-TG502-CORP Location: St Mary's Hospital, Kettering Open until: 10/12/2025 08:00 Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per year Job grade: Band 6 Contract: Permanent Hours: 32 hours per week (Hybrid remote working) Job overview We are pleased to be recruiting a Senior People Consultant to provide focused, professional HR support across the Trust, in delivering Mental Health and Community Healthcare services across Northamptonshire. This role will provide a wide range of opportunities to independently manage change and service transformation through delivering a customer focused HR service and some complex employee relations cases. Working as a Senior People Consultant you will deliver timely and professional advice and expertise to enhance and develop the workforce, as our people are at the core of being a leading provider of outstanding, compassionate care. In return you will benefit from working for an organisation who values you for your individuality, who supports your health and wellbeing and blend a generous reward package with a supportive work life balance. As a valued member of our friendly, supportive and professional team you will utilise your existing HR skills and knowledge to fulfil a varied role where every day is different, interesting and rewarding. Main duties of the job The post holder will work as part of the People Team. The successful candidate will need to quickly build relationships through the Trust, understand the people needs of the services and work in partnership to deliver HR solutions. The Senior People Consultant will offer advice to managers and staff members. The Senior People Consultant will lead a variety of project areas, service improvements and hold an employee relations caseload ensuring pragmatic solutions are reached for HR issues. We are looking for candidates who ideally have experience of working in the NHS or a similar setting, have a CIPD qualification, and experience of delivering a HR service and managing complex cases. Candidates will need to be great communicators, have a passion for people management and engagement and have the ability to balance priorities and workload to meet the needs of a busy service. The HR team are based at St Mary’s Hospital, Kettering and work in a hybrid flexible way working from home and from the office, delivering timely advice utilising video conferencing and appropriate technology in order to fulfil the role requirements. Working for our organisation NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Person specification Qualification • CIPD qualification (or equivalent) Experience Experience in full range of case activity Experience of NHS or equivalent Experience of unionised environment You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds. All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re‑check on a three‑yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly – the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period. Employer certification / accreditation badges You must have appropriate UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr