Associate HR Business Partner

**Associate HR Business Partner**

**Location**: Woolwich

**Job Type**: Temporary

**Duration of booking**: Expected to last up to 12 weeks

**Proposed start date**: ASAP

**Sector**: Healthcare

**Base**:Hospital

**Band**: 7

**Pay Rates**:
£22.00 to £25.00 PAYE per hour

£25.00 to £26.00 PAYE inclusive of holiday pay per hour

£26.00 to £27.00 UMBRELLA per hour

**Working Days and Hours**:Monday to Friday 9:00am-5:00pm

**The main purpose of this role would be**:
To support with interventions in the division and to help with improving KPI compliance such as sickness management, compliance meetings, vacancy and temp staffing controls as well as supporting organisational change and consultations.

**Duties**:

- The purpose of this role is to support the HR Business Partner (or Head of Workforce) to provide comprehensive human resource (HR) support for a designated clinical /corporate Division with regard to resourcing, organisational change, employee relations(ER) and terms and conditions of employment.
- The role will support the forward planning, modernisation, and performance of the workforce.
- The role will support the Business Partner to assist the Division and the Workforce Directorate in achieving workforce key performance indicators (KPI’s).
- The role includes involvement in the design and delivery of training and development interventions in conjunction with other workforce colleagues to help increase management capability within the Division and supporting strategies to improve target achievementwhere needed.
- The role is responsible for ensuring professional customer focused HR advice and coaching support is provided and will support on designated Trust-wide HR developments as agreed with the HR Business Partner, Head of Workforce and the Deputy Director ofWorkforce - Strategy & Business Partnering.
- The post holder will deputise for the HR Business Partner as required.

**Skills/Qualifications needed**:

- Educated to degree level.
- Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) member.
- CIPD Level 5 member (or evidence they are working towards).
- Employee relations experience in a complex, multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse organisation.
- Experience of operating effectively in a customer facing environment.
- In depth knowledge of employment legislation and understanding of the risks of non-compliance.
- Experience of advising managers on complex and serious individual and/or collective conflict situations including disciplinary, capability and grievance issues.
- Experience of supporting effective organisational change initiatives, including Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment).
- Well -developed understanding and awareness of best - practice employee relations methodologies.
- Experience of working in a multi-unionised environment.
- Experience of workforce planning to support divisional strategies.
- Experience of preparing Employment Tribunal information.
- Knowledge and experience of working with HR Business Partner mode.
- Able to plan and organise the work of themselves and others to ensure the achievement of targets and outcomes.
- Able to provide direct support to managers on complex case management issues.
- Able to prepare reports and correspondence to respond to complex cases.
- Able to work through sub functions of workforce to provide effective service to the business.
- Able to analyse complex information and identify appropriate recommendations.
- Able to advise managers on case management issues related to terms and conditions, discipline, capability, grievance or change management.
- Well -developed influencing and negotiating skills.
- Able to make judgements and advise managers on options for action and associated risks.