Senior HR Advisor

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

We have several exciting opportunities for highly motivated and innovative HR Professionals to join our dynamic Employee Relations team. If you're passionate about creating positive change and making a meaningful impact on both staff experience and patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Following a recent restructuring within Operational HR, we are in a transformative phase, offering several opportunities to grow and shape the future of our HR services. Our employee relations function plays a pivotal role in supporting the Trust's strategic objectives, ensuring we are recognised as both a great place to work and the employer of choice in our community.

Working within a fast-paced hospital setting, you will support a diverse workforce, including clinical and non-clinical teams, helping to create a positive, supportive and highly performing workplace.

We are looking for proactive, knowledgeable, and committed HR Professionals who can drive this vision forward. The role is instrumental in delivering a high-quality HR service, supporting staff across the organisation to achieve meaningful outcomes aligned with the Trust's values so they can continue to provide outstanding care to our patients.

We operate a hybrid model of on-site and home working.

Locations: Cross site - Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

As Senior HR Advisor, you will build key relationships with HR and the wider People team, business leaders, stakeholders, and trade union colleagues, actively embracing changes and taking accountability to deliver a complete value-add HR provision, applying your senior HR knowledge to business challenges. You will ensure ongoing review and development of HR policies, procedures, and practices whilst supporting the development of our managers and systems and processes that enable efficient and effective ways of working.

You will support the supervision and development of HR Advisor(s), providing leadership and driving continuous improvement by empowering, motivating, developing, and inspiring the team to deliver.

You'll have up-to-date knowledge and proven application of employment law relating to employee relations matters such as handling disciplinary, grievance, and dignity at work issues within a large and complex organisation. You'll also be able to identify interventions and solutions that minimise requirements for formal investigations and hearings. Our organisation is developing, and so knowledge and evidence of supporting organisational change/TUPE will be required along with current or previous line management or supervisory experience.

About us

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD is investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Date posted

07 February 2025

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

153-CO04197

Job locations

University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites

Bournemouth/Dorset

BH7 7DW

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Postgraduate diploma acquired through degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience
• CIPD level 5
• Graduate Member of CIPD or willing to become a member

Experience

• Experience of managing complex Human Resources issues including sickness absence management, capability management, disciplinary management, grievances, and attending hearings.
• Ability to analyse difficult situations/information and provide effective, timely solutions.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of other key human resources fields e.g. recruitment & selection, terms & conditions, and change management.
• Proven experience of working in a Human Resources Department undertaking an advisory role.
• NHS Experience within an HR generalist position.
• Experience of delivering HR related training.
• Experience of mediation and facilitation.
• Experience of coaching managers.
• Well organised, able to prioritise a diverse and challenging workload, as well as meeting tight deadlines whilst dealing with frequent interruptions.
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and best practice including equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion.
• Knowledge and understanding of current NHS initiatives and their potential impact on the Trust/NHS.
• Sound knowledge, understanding, and experience of using IT systems, including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer name

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust