Human Resources Adviser

Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

Town: Lindley

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 29/12/2024 23:59

Interview date: 13/01/2025

NHS AfC: Band 5

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone, and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work, and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours, and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

Job overview

Are you an experienced qualified HR practitioner who is looking for a new challenge? Do you want to work in an environment that supports your personal and professional development? Do you have an overriding passion to improve patient care? If so, this post may be just what you are looking for.

Working in partnership within the Medicine and Community Division’s senior leadership team, your role will be instrumental in leading the people agenda under the guidance and direction of the Human Resources Business Partner.

Main duties of the job

Building on the Trust’s enviable reputation as an employer of choice for medical, clinical, and corporate support staff, you will play a key role in ensuring that we have the right people with the right skills in the right place to achieve the Trust’s vision for the future, as well as providing specialist employment law advice and guidance.

Working for our organisation

Reporting to the HR Business Partner, you will be working as part of a highly qualified and experienced team of workforce and organisational development professionals. You will seek to foster excellent working relationships with managers across the services to provide pragmatic advice and guidance across a range of employee relations matters including Medical HR processes. You will work within an allocated HR team to the Medicine and Community Division but will also work closely as a part of a wider community of HR professionals and peers within the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates should be CIPD qualified or working towards it with proven experience of providing general HR support and advice in all aspects of employee relations matters ideally gained in a large-scale, complex organisation. As an experienced HR professional, you must be able to influence and support line managers to manage informal and formal HR issues. Able to demonstrate motivation and resilience and to plan and manage your own workload in a challenging environment is essential to the role.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• CIPD Qualification/Post Graduate HR Qualification or working towards qualification
• To attend CHFT in-house Training
• Attend external training as appropriate to the role
• To maintain own CPD ensuring that knowledge and understanding is reviewed and updated to enable appropriate and relevant advice is provided.
• Educated to degree level

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Proven experience of providing general HR support and advice in all aspects of employee relations matters.
• Influencing and supporting line managers to manage informal and formal HR issues.
• Ability to deliver change management projects.
• Up to date with employment law and best practice.
• Able to interpret and implement HR policies and procedures.
• Proactive approach to identifying risks and implementing plans to address them.
• Understanding of the NHS and the NHS HR agenda.
• Competent in Microsoft Office, able to use the internet for research purposes.
• Advanced keyboard skills – the ability to gather data from ESR and manipulate this using Excel.
• Designing and delivering staff development and training courses.
• Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and data protection.
• Previous NHS experience in an HR role.
• Experience of working in a unionized environment.
• Project management.
• Understanding of NHS terms and conditions of service.
• Managing Organisational Change issues.

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Able to demonstrate motivation and resilience.
• To plan and manage your own workload in a challenging environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to interact with people at all levels in the organisation and build positive working relationships.
• Able to influence managers and cultures to promote change and support organisational/service objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to develop relationships with internal partners as well as external.
• Ability to work in a team/own initiative.
• Ability to gather facts and write and present complex reports.
• Demonstrate the ability to concentrate for prolonged periods where frequent interruptions occur and the work pattern is unpredictable.

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co-create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce; that’s why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following the interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable, will be transferred from your current/most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Address: Workforce and Organisational Development
Acre Mill
Acre Street
Lindley
Huddersfield
HD3 3EB
Telephone: 01484 343369