People Advisor

Job Summary
People Advisor
Band 5 Post - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
We have an opportunity for the exciting role of People Advisor within our busy, supportive and dynamic People Operations Team. If you are an experienced professional ready to hit the ground running, or seeking career development, your application is of interest

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a confidence and aptitude to learn the following skills essential for this role. You will:

• Provide an efficient and visible HR service providing policy advice and guidance and to support managers to achieve compliance with workforce key performance indicator targets.
• Understand and present risk-based advice in line with Trust policy, to staff and managers with a range of employee relations issues including complex cases.
• Provide high performance service - sustaining ownership of the HR advisory service for your Division with ambition and drive; providing information to staff and managers at ward reviews to inform the appropriate HR intervention; providing support for investigation, disciplinary and appeal hearings and delivering results.
• Present confidently to an audience and will enjoy developing and delivering training on absence, performance, appraisals and HR policies to enable line managers autonomy of practice.

Main duties of the job

• You will be tenacious with follow-through of your service delivery under pressure, to achieve deadlines and the ability to record your progress through timeline accuracy and evidenced closure.
• You will keep up-to-date with UK employment law, developing confidence to update HR policies in line with legislation changes and become competent in Job Evaluation.
• You will be an articulate communicator with strong verbal and written skills and ambitious and competitive to deliver the most outstanding HR service.

This demanding yet rewarding opportunity will test your knowledge of employment law and best practice, whilst giving you the autonomy to further develop your career.

The post-holders will take ownership of a varied caseload, support organisational change and will need to have good time management and prioritisation skills.

Ideally fully CIPD qualified, you will thrive on delivering a professional, customer-focused HR service that supports the Trusts vision and values.

About Us
Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

Job Description
Job responsibilities
The People Advisor will be expected to provide an effective and professional HR service to management and staff in Great Western NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will lead on providing advice to managers on a range of HR areas including employee terms and conditions, employment issues, core key performance indicators and organisational change to provide an efficient and effective HR service.

Full duties can be found on the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications
Qualifications
Essential

• Live Membership of the CIPD or working towards
• Up to date knowledge of HR legal framework
• Exposure/Understanding of absence, performance, grievance, disciplinary management and change management.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Desirable

• HR knowledge acquired through relevant training and experience to degree /diploma equivalent experience.
• Degree or general management qualification.

Experience
Essential

• Generalist HR experience
• Up to date knowledge of HR Best Practice
• Working in a challenging, busy HR environment with competing demands.
• Delivering front line advice and guidance to managers and staff on conditions of employment and employee relation issues including sickness absence, performance management, grievance and disciplinary investigations.
• Undertaking tasks, which demonstrate ability to work on your own initiative.

Desirable

• Supporting and delivering Management Training and presentations.

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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 (Opens in a new tab) .

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 (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).