# Senior People Advisor, Band 6 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-people-advisor-band-6/0dcc639b-d4f8-4dfd-80d6-54b2c8e0a408 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-people-advisor-band-6/0dcc639b-d4f8-4dfd-80d6-54b2c8e0a408.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trustwide - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 (pa pro rata if part-time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-14T12:30:38.200Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucestershire_Gloucester_Cheltenham/Gloucestershire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/People_OD/People_OD-v8220270 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8220270?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview You will be able to provide expert support and guidance to employee relations processes within the Trust, supporting managers, staff and colleagues to deliver timely, just and compliant resolutions of cases. We are in the process of introducing a restorative, just and learning culture, across all are HR practices and processes. We capture and analyse employee relations data in order to identify to the Business Partners trends within their areas of responsibility for intervention. ### Main duties of the job Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of professional knowledge and practice across the People Advisory Team, supporting colleagues to develop their skills and professional capability. Promote and embed a Restorative, Just and Learning Culture (RJLC) approach across people casework, ensuring practice is consistent, reflective and focused on learning and improvement. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To advise managers and staff in the interpretation and application of terms and conditions of employment, Trust policies, current legislation and codes of practice, ensuring that good employment practices are maintained and legal obligations are fulfilled. - To provide expert professional advice and support to managers in dealing with employee relations issues and, where appropriate, to act as case handler in casework involving discipline, capability, grievance, and the management of sickness absence ensuring that practice complies with Trust policies and procedures, are fairly and consistently applied, and that good practice is maintained. - To coach staff and managers in Human Resources issues where appropriate, ensuring that all advice is accurate and compliant with Trust policies, the law and good practice, and to support the L&OD team, where relevant, in the creation and quality assurance of relevant training content. - In conjunction with the recruitment team and the Recruitment Manager, to provide professional advice and support to managers in dealing with recruitment, selection and redeployment issues. - To ensure the appropriate documentation of all employee relations casework. - To provide administrative and analytical support to preparation work for employment tribunals and relevant legal disputes. - To prepare employee relations reports, and provide analysis and recommendations, ensuring that accurate HR performance management information is provided, analysed and necessary action identified. - To support the management of change within the organisation, including involvement in the handling and co-ordination of redeployment matters, consultation with staff and trade union representatives, counselling and assisting with redeployment initiatives, ensuring that change is implemented smoothly. - To undertake project work, ensuring that the aims and objectives and high standards are met and that the Trust makes effective use of its resources. - To quality assure and, on occasion, deliver HR-related training in partnership with the L&OD team. - Any other duties, which fall within the general scope of the job description and band. ## Person Specification ### Qualities **Essential** - Ability to mix with a wide range of people and form relationships quickly ### Experience **Essential** - Operational HR advisory role - Policy Development - Interpreting and advising on terms and conditions, policies and procedures ### Qualifications **Essential** - CIPD Level 5 and willing to or working towards CIPD Level 7 - Evidence of recent CPD **Desirable** - Degree level education or equivalent - Associate Member CIPD ### Knowledge, Skills, Abilities **Essential** - Delivering a diverse HR service to meet the needs of the business - A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law and demonstrable experience of its pragmatic application ## Documents - [why work for us - rewards and benefits (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2952) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 248.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541128) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.