HR Advisor

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an HR Advisor to join the People Team here at the NHS Business Services Authority on a fixed term basis.

This role is a fantastic medium-term opportunity and is open to those on secondment from other organisations. This could be a great chance to develop your existing HR Advisory skills further in a public sector organisation.

We have ambitious future plans for delivery, and our people are the key to us achieving these goals. We want our people to have the best colleague experiences and to experience a great place to work, where they can be their authentic selves. Our aim is to be inclusive and compassionate in everything we do, putting our internal customers at the centre, and being ambitious in what we want to achieve.

The HR Advisor role is a key role enabling our business to achieve its strategy through its people. The team are responsible for ensuring we provide an excellent and pro-active HR Advisory service, challenging the status quo and building a colleague experience that supports our ambition to be a great place to work.

Main duties of the job

This is a valuable opportunity for an established HR Advisor to broaden their experience in an ambitious public sector organization that has a proactive HR Advisory service.

At the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) we deliver a range of essential national services to NHS organisations and contractors, patients and the public.

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Being one of the UK’s Best Big Companies to work for, our values are to be Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We CARE about what we do and support each other in achieving our objectives.

Our people are the heart of our organisation. We strive to ensure they feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that.

We are the NHS delivering for the NHS

In this role, you are accountable for:

- Providing an excellent and proactive HR advisory service to managers within the NHSBSA and Hosted Organisations. This will involve coaching and supporting managers to be confident in HR practice by offering effective HR advice and enabling them to manage employee relation issues.
- Working collaboratively with Senior HR Business Partners, advise on highly complex employment matters which can include TUPE, disciplinary, grievance, performance management, sickness absence and organisational change.
- Research, develop and update new and existing HR policies and procedures in line with best practice and relevant employment legislation, ensuring fit for business purposes.
- Working with the Senior HR Business Partners, develop leader knowledge and capability through coaching and influencing to enable continual business improvement through key initiatives. Such initiatives include (but not exhaustive) performance, talent management and succession planning, engagement and workforce planning.
- Continually developing your professional knowledge and skills by keeping up to date with external trends and best practice in the areas of expertise and HR more broadly. This will include keeping up to date on highly complex employment legislation and NHS developments (including terms and conditions), providing advice and interpretation on the implications of such changes, and cascading this knowledge within the HR Advisory team.
- Design and deliver training to managers at all levels within the NHSBSA and host organisations on key HR topics to ensure knowledge and awareness are embedded, ensuring stakeholder sign off within the wider HR team.
- Being an advocate of continual improvement within the HR advisory team, actively embracing changes and taking accountability for any on-going issues that you identify.
- Develop and maintain effective and pro-active communication channels with colleagues, their representatives and managers to ensure they are all engaged into the achievement of aims and objectives, and that key messages are understood and acted upon.
- Owning HR projects (or parts of projects) and continual work streams, taking full responsibility and accountability for delivery, with direction and support from HR leadership.
- To assist the HR Manager with the preparation of documentation in relation to internal and external reviews (e.g. audit and Employment Tribunals).
- To identify, collate and analyse people information as required to drive insight on HR matters and inform business directorate direction.
- Support with ensuring our data with the Electronic Staff Record is accurate through regularly reviewing content with the Business Areas and supporting the cleanse of data as needed. In addition, ensure all relevant files and documentation are within GDPR c