Human Resources Officer

Job summary

This job is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System.

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals

Location: Dependent on current base site, with potential for across site working, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (frequency of visits to each site, to be agreed locally).

We are recruiting a HR Officer who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout our services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff? Apply to be part of our team today.

About us

Our vision for Single Corporate Services Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.

Date posted: 24 March 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 470-24-0121-COR

Job locations: St Marys Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

Job description Job responsibilities

This role joins the busy People Services team providing operational leadership to the team ensuring a high quality service is delivered to our customers, both internally and externally. You will support, develop and manage the performance of the People Services team to deliver an efficient and accurate service including; ensuring the employees' employment record is kept up to date in the Employee Staff Record (ESR), liaising with managers and SBS to prevent overpayments, ensuring the administration of the delivery of right to work, professional registration and parental leave and auditing this as appropriate.

This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division

Why are we changing the way we deliver Corporate Services? Working as a partnership, both IWT and PHU have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The creation of a single corporate service is essential for us to support our clinical and operational services, and our wider transformation programme.

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

Please note, this position has also been advertised on the Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust's jobs page. If you are interested in this position and wish to apply, there is no requirement for you to submit two separate applications.

Also your application may be transferred to the Portsmouth Applicant Tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview.

For further details, please see enclosed Job Description.

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent specialist knowledge
• Appropriate professional registration
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Experience of working within a HR department to include basic HR administration and to provide advice on policies and procedures
• Experience of using paper and electronic filing systems
• Experience of inputting data into information systems
• Experience of relating the service context and implications of the data to robust but relevant interpretation or recommendations
• Experience of analysing & responding to complex queries
• Experience of collating and analysing statistical information and presenting results to non-statistical professionals
• Experience of managing a team
• Ability to communicate effectively by telephone, particularly in giving instruction on the use of systems
• Ability to communicate effectively in person, dealing with callers to the department who may be distressed and/or upset

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.

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.

Employer details Employer name: Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address: St Marys Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

Employer's website: https://www.iow.nhs.uk/