Workforce Advisor

Job overview

Are you seeking to develop your HR career in a fast-paced environment? If so, we would love to hear from you.

As an award-winning teaching hospital, with a range of acute and specialist services, our workforce is diverse and aspires to achieve great things for our patients. Due to the size of the organisation and the variety of the services provided you will have the opportunity build your experience and have an impact on the services you support.

Our Workforce Advisors are focused on providing specialist employee relations advice, coaching managers and developing policies.

We support colleagues to work agilely, and many of the team split the week between working on site and working from home. Please note all staff are required to work on site at least 2 days a week and flexibility is required, subject to the needs of the service e.g. meeting that require attendance in person.

If this sounds like the role for you, please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

No two days are the same in this role. You will be providing advice about sickness absence management, disciplinary and grievance processes and best practice in managing people and teams. This could be over the phone, in online meetings, or face to face.

There will be days when you will deal with challenging and sensitive situations and other days when you will be able to celebrate success and share learning. Every contact you have can make a difference to someone else and high levels of compassion and professional judgement will be crucial.

You will play an important role in providing support and advice to service managers. You will be an advocate for colleagues ensuring policies and employment legislation is followed as well as championing a just culture approach to employee relations matters.

The ongoing learning and development of team members is very important to us and to support this we have weekly team sessions to ensure there is a regular opportunity to meet as a team, discuss learning from cases and have the opportunity for CPD.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Act as point of contact for managers seeking advice on terms and conditions of employment and Workforce policies.
• Proactively support and advise managers on employee relations cases including sickness absence management, disciplinary, grievance, performance management and workplace conflict
• Participate in job matching and job evaluation; and support recruitment processes as required
• Make recommendations and proposals for changes to practice, policy development and ways of working.
• Provide information to managers and Workforce Business Partners to support the development of divisional workforce strategies and improvements in workforce performance metrics.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.