# Workforce Investigator

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/workforce-investigator/c4efb592-f99e-4469-bd9f-52cf26d4d89f
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/workforce-investigator/c4efb592-f99e-4469-bd9f-52cf26d4d89f.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Remote
- **Workplace type:** remote
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata if part time
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 5 days per week required (possibility of one day working from home))
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25T15:30:55.521Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/East_Grinstead/Queen_Victoria_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Workforce_Investigations/Workforce_Investigations-v8247052
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8247052?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.qvh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Workforce Investigator will provide expert leadership and oversight of workplace investigations across the Trust, ensuring high-quality, timely, legally compliant, and fair investigations while strengthening organisational capability, promoting a just and compassionate culture, and driving continuous improvement in employee relations practice.

Interviews will be held on the 29th and 30th September.

### Main duties of the job

- Lead and conduct complex, sensitive, and high-profile employee relations investigations across the Trust, ensuring a fair, impartial, and timely approach.
- Act as the Trust's subject matter expert on workplace investigations, including Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) cases involving medical staff.
- Manage investigations from initial scoping through to reporting, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, ACAS guidance, and relevant employment legislation.
- Coach, support, and develop managers and investigators, promoting best practice, consistency, and high-quality outcomes.
- Design and deliver training on investigation skills, risk mitigation, and employment relations best practice.
- Analyse employee relations data, identify trends, and contribute to service improvements and organisational learning.
- Review and enhance investigation processes, guidance, and tools to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Champion a compassionate, inclusive, and learning-focused culture aligned with Trust values.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for details of duties and main responsibilities including main working relationships.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Advanced keyboard skills and manipulating reports (1) - efficiently use Microsoft and other software (1)
- Ability to organise own workload that is subject to change (1) and effective time management (1)
- Ability to negotiate and influence (1), problem solve (1), attention to detail (1), manage confrontational situations (1)
- Excellent effective communication skills both verbally and in writing with staff at all levels (1) and build effective working relationships (1)

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge and understanding of employment law, legislation and policies with practical application in an organisation
- Knowledge of current HR issues/best practice

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions of service – agenda for change and medical and dental
- Knowledge of the MHPS Policies and Procedures for Medical and Dental Practitioners

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of managing a caseload across a range of matters
- Proven experience of giving advice and support on sensitive and confidential matters including complex and contentious casework
- Experience of writing investigation reports or equivalent reports where analysis and comparison of information is required
- Experience of having developed and delivered training sessions
- Experience of working in a unionised environment
- Experience of contributing to the development of and successful implementation of policies, procedures and service improvement

**Desirable**

- Experience of managing cases through Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS): Policies and Procedures for Medical and Dental Practitioners
- Management and leadership experience
- Experience of working in the NHS/ public sector

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Post-graduate diploma level or equivalent or able to demonstrate specialist knowledge within this field through practical experience
- Coaching or mentoring qualification or study
- Facilitation or mediation qualification or substantial training

## Documents

- [qvh information (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1058)
- [relocation policy (pdf, 631.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2763)
- [qvh privacy notice (pdf, 154.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1563)
- [dbs code of practice (pdf, 149.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1130)
- [workforce investigator (pdf, 288.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10559185)
- [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1137)
- [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3012)
- [qvh statement of conditions, vision and values (pdf, 200.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2742)

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