HR Advisor

**Salary**:£35,000 per annum (pro rata for part time)
**Location**: Taunton or Yeovil
**Contract**: 6-month Fixed Term

St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a temporary HR Advisor to join our team. You will put your professional expertise into practice by providing support on a wide range of employee relations issues, including absence and performance management, disciplinaries, and investigations.

We understand that different ways of working suit different people. That’s why we offer:

- **Flexible working patterns**: We can support part time working of 25 hours per week up to full time hours of 37. Our aim is to be as flexible as possible so you can balance work around your commitments and select the hours that work best for you.
- **Hybrid working**: Although this is an office based role, after a supportive induction in our Taunton hub, you will be able to work some days from home or in our Yeovil hub.
- **Supportive and inclusive team culture**:We really are a friendly bunch. Everyone’s contributions are valued and there’s always someone ready to help. Not to mention the generous amounts of cake on offer and team meals, both in and out of work.

**What can you expect to be doing?**
We are working to deliver a quality HR service to St Margarets Hospice - and you will be a key part of that.

Your day-to-day work will include:

- Start to end Employee Relation case management including investigations and disciplinaries.
- Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with a wide range of staff, managers and relevant organisations.
- Advising on best practice, sharing learning and ideas for continuous improvement.
- Acting as a mediator or facilitator.
- Building Management capability through coaching, upskilling, and advice
- Promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace

**What will you need to be good at?**
You will need to:

- Have demonstrable experience of supporting with employee relations issues
- Be CIPD Level 5 qualified or have equivalent experience in a HR role

**Why join St Margaret’s Hospice Care?**
Be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, we could be a perfect match.

We also offer the following benefits:
**Holiday entitlement**
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
- Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave

**Pension scheme**
- NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees will receive 5% employer and 5% employee contribution.

**Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering**:

- Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
- Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations for employees, their partners, and dependent children as well as Expert Case Management
- Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Counselling and support
- Legal, financial, and medical information and advice

**And more**
- **Life assurance cover** - 2x salary
- **Health Cash Plans** - help with covering the cost of healthcare needs by providing cashback on a range of health benefits
- Blue Light Card - Discounts on retailers and restaurants saving up to 35%
- Enhanced parental leave*
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Delicious affordable meals, cakes, and pastries from our onsite kitchen
- Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
- Volunteering and fundraising opportunities
- Eligibility criteria applies

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can't wait to hear from you