# Senior People Consultant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-people-consultant/014e26c3-a79f-45f5-a449-1a17f8f43a05 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-people-consultant/014e26c3-a79f-45f5-a449-1a17f8f43a05.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Kettering - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 10 months (30 hours per week - until 18th August 2027) - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, Fixed term: 10 months (30 hours per week - until 18th August 2027) 30 hours per week (Working from base at St Mary's Hospital up to twice a week, and working from home) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T10:52:11.426Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Kettering/Northamptonshire_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Human_Resources/Human_Resources-v8126058 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8126058?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are pleased to be recruiting a Senior People Consultant to provide focused, professional HR support across the Trust, in delivering Mental Health and Community Healthcare services across Northamptonshire. This role will provide a wide range of opportunities to independently manage a complex employee relations case load, as well as supporting organisational change. The role will will also support the reduction of absenteeism across the workforce, working with our People Business Partners. Working as a Senior People Consultant you will deliver timely and professional advice and expertise to enhance and develop the workforce, as our people are at the core of being a leading provider of outstanding, compassionate care. In return you will benefit from working for an organisation who values you for your individuality, who supports your health and wellbeing and blend a generous reward package with a supportive work life balance. As a valued member of our friendly, supportive and professional team you will utilise your existing HR skills and knowledge to fulfil a varied role where every day is different, interesting and rewarding. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will work as part of the People Team. The successful candidate will need to quickly build relationships through the Trust, understand the people needs of the services and work in partnership to deliver HR solutions. The Senior People Consultant will offer advice to managers and staff members. The Senior People Consultant will lead a variety of project areas and hold an employee relations caseload ensuring pragmatic solutions are reached for HR issues. We are looking for candidates who ideally have experience of working in the NHS or a similar setting, have a CIPD qualification, and experience of delivering a HR service and managing complex cases. Candidates will need to be great communicators, have a passion for people management and engagement and have the ability to balance priorities and workload to meet the needs of a busy service. The People team are based at St Mary’s Hospital, Kettering and work in a hybrid flexible way working from home and from the office, delivering timely advice utilising video conferencing and appropriate technology in order to fulfil the role requirements. Please note the role involves working across all NHFT sites and therefore a suitable candidate will need to have the ability to travel independently to these sites. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to travel independently to all NHFT sites **Desirable** - Full UK Driving License - Acces to Vehicle for Work Purposes ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience in a full range of complex employee relations cases - Employment Law knowledge **Desirable** - Experience of NHS or equivalent - Experience of unionised environment - Experience of advising, influencing and coaching managers - Policy implementation and development ### Qualification **Essential** - CIPD postgraduate ## Documents - [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047) - [senior people consultant jd (pdf, 728.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10422838) ## 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.