HR Advisor

HR Advisor x 3 posts - band 5

(also available as a band 4 development opportunity)

At LPFT we see our HR team as fundamental in supporting staff and leaders to do the best for our patients. Following significant investment, and the appointment of a new People Director, we are expanding our team and looking for people to be part of our future.

We have a range of HR Adviser roles working in both our operations and corporate divisions with various full or part time working options.

You will be working collaboratively with our managers and provide generalist HR service on a whole spectrum of workforce issues including managing attendance, disciplinary matters, organisational change management, recruitment, workforce planning and delivering our forward thinking People Strategy.

You will also support the development and implementation of HR policies and the corporate based post will have line management responsibility for the HR Administrator.

Although there is some requirement to travel throughout the county to support managers/attend meetings, these roles will be a hybrid of home working/time on site.

To lead on designated projects / support policy development as required.

To deliver training and support to managers on a regular basis.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Advise and support managers in the operation and interpretation of the Trust’s HR Policies and Procedures, particularly, Change Management, TUPE, Managing Attendance, Discipline, Grievance, Harassment & Bullying.

Advise managers on recruitment and retention issues, including, establishment control, vacancy review, job analysis, job descriptions, person specifications, service development etc.

Lead on particular projects, e.g., Health Care Support Worker recruitment project, and undertake appropriate analysis, interpreting complex results and producing reports and action plan with the appropriate options for action.

Create and update reports and spreadsheets for various committees, as requested.

Accompany and advise managers at disciplinary, grievance, long term sickness and capability interviews. Support managers during disciplinary hearings up to and including final written warnings.

Accompany, support and advise managers at change management consultation meetings with individuals and groups of staff. Presenting changes to large groups of staff

In conjunction with Workforce, support and advise managers on HR Workforce information.

Support the HR Business Partners with any reasonable requests for support to employee issues within the clinical divisions.

Undertake disciplinary investigations recommending appropriate course of action.

Support the development and approval of HR policies and procedures.