# HR Advisor - Band 5

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** Lincoln County Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Human resources advisor
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 This post is eligible as a Development Opportunity.
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16T10:03:25.593Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lincolnshire/Lincoln/United_Lincolnshire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Human_Resources_HR/Human_Resources_HR-v8359156
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8359156?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ulh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

At Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG), our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a HR Advisor, you'll be much more than an HR practitioner. You'll be a trusted advisor, coach and problem solver, helping leaders create positive workplace experiences that ultimately support the delivery of excellent patient care.

This is an exciting development opportunity for someone looking to build a career in HR. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of complex employee relations matters, organisational change programmes, workforce planning initiatives, wellbeing projects, and people transformation work. Working alongside experienced HR Business Partners and HR Managers, you'll develop the confidence, skills and expertise needed to become a highly effective HR professional.

If you're passionate about people, enjoy influencing decisions, thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to make a genuine difference to staff and services across Lincolnshire, we'd love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

Having recently launched our Work Well Plan, our aim is to support, develop and keep brilliant people. From someone’s first day with us, right through their career, we want people to have the support, opportunities and working environment they need to feel well, grow and thrive.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a HR Advisor, you will provide a professional, responsive and solutions-focused HR service to managers and staff across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

- Advising managers on employee relations matters including attendance management, disciplinary cases, grievances, performance concerns, bullying and harassment.
- Supporting the delivery of the Trust's People Plan and wider organisational objectives.
- Coaching managers to develop confidence and capability in people management.
- Interpreting employment legislation, HR policies and NHS terms and conditions to provide consistent advice.
- Working collaboratively with Trade Union representatives and key stakeholders to promote positive employment relations and a Just Culture approach.
- Assisting in the delivery of HR training, workshops and development activities.
- Participating in job evaluation and matching panels.
- Contributing to policy reviews and the development of people practices across the Group.
- Supporting colleagues with complex casework and strategic workforce initiatives.

### Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to deliver messages effectively at all levels.
- Ability to make an impact within the organisation to motivate and enthuse others of the need for change
- A high degree of customer service focus understanding the wider trust context
- Ability to demonstrate pragmatic decision-making when evaluating workforce data and trends and/or advising of HR matters
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft office, in particular MS Word and Excel, with accurate keyboard skills

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Broad and comprehensive generalist HR knowledge base.
- Knowledge of current employment legislation
- Sound knowledge of HR policies, systems and processes

**Desirable**

- Understanding of NHS Terms and Conditions of Employment

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous experience of working within an HR function including advising on employee relations, terms and conditions and recruitment issues
- Experience of advising managers and employees across a diverse range of HR issues
- Experience of Employee Relations Issues
- Evidence of manipulating, analysing workforce data to identify workforce trends and develop action plans to support business units
- Experience of working to deadlines and in a busy and demanding office environment

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree in HR related field, or equivalent experience.
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

**Desirable**

- Coaching qualification

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Role models Group values.

### Special Attributes

**Essential**

- Ability to motivate others to achieve and act as a role model and champion for modern People practices
- Ability to travel to attend meetings
- Demonstrates accountability and ownership of work duties and activities and carries them out with accuracy, integrity and customer focus
- Ability to manage office duties and conflicting pressures to ensure workloads are effectively managed and a personal dedication to deliver timely standards
- Ability to work autonomously and self-direct

## Documents

- [workwell plan (pdf, 10.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3099)
- [ceo welcome letter (pdf, 129.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3108)
- [ulht staff networks (pdf, 13.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2739)
- [job description - hr advisor (pdf, 244.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10685530)
- [acceptable use of ai in personal statements (pdf, 95.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2953)

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