University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 People Advisor

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Job summary

As an organisation, we are Birmingham and Solihull's largest employer, with over 24,000 permanent staff and 6,000+ on our internal staffing bank. Without our people, we would be unable to deliver the first-class care to our patients both in the community and within our 4 main hospitals.

Led by the Trust's Group Chief People Officer, the People Directorate is the epicentre of employee relations and organisational development. Recognising the importance of this department, we are expanding our advisory team across the Queen Elizabeth Hospital with the creation of a new Band 5 People Advisor opportunity.

This is an exciting time to join the Trust with significant opportunity to make an impact through the introduction of new and improved ways of working whilst framing your personal career aspirations for growth and development.

As a Directorate, we provide a partnership service to all managers on policy and procedures and are proud of our person focused, fair approach, where patient care is our priority.

You will be well versed in; working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple conflicting demands and pressures, whilst continuing to provide guidance to the wider management team and managing a caseload of varied employee relation matters such as disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and performance improvement.

Main duties of the job

It is essential that you are able to demonstrate your expert knowledge in the field of employee relations and have up to date working knowledge of employment law; keeping yourself informed with legislative changes and best practices, which focus on people rather than process.

You will be innovative, team-focused, and able to demonstrate how you follow the just culture principles in your approach.

By joining our exciting journey, you will be working with like-minded people who deliver unequivocal excellence in all aspects of their role, who are encouraged by the peers to deliver on their individual ability and creativity and who continue to drive the department's innovations.

As a flexible employer, UHB can offer hybrid working to include cross site and home with hours of work to suit service delivery and a healthy work life balance.

Please note the interviews will take place in person on Friday 13 December 2024 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Interested? Please contact Sophie Mullett, People Partner via email on sophie.mullett@uhb.nhs.uk to ask any questions or to arrange an informal chat to discuss this great opportunity.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

22 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-1089638DO

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*HR Knowledge acquired through relevant training and experience e.g. Level 5 CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) to degree equivalent level
*Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential

*Recent experience in HR including providing generalise HR advice
*Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports
*Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice

Desirable

*Experience of working in partnership with Trade unions.

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with fully developed persuasion, negotiating and influencing skills
*Ability to work autonomously, without direct supervision and as part of a team
*Good IT skills (to include as a minimum: Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
*Ability to interpret and apply Terms and Conditions of Employment
*Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently
*Ability to gain and maintain credibility and establish good working relationships with staff at all levels across the organisation
*Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
*Able to pay attention to detail
*Able to concentrate with frequent interruptions and where work is unpredictable
*Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances, frequently when imparting information e.g., discipline, sickness
*Proactive with the ability to work on own initiative, responding to immediate requests
*Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
*Proactive and self-motivated.
*Ability to work across all Trust sites.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

*HR Knowledge acquired through relevant training and experience e.g. Level 5 CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) to degree equivalent level
*Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential

*Recent experience in HR including providing generalise HR advice
*Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports
*Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice

Desirable

*Experience of working in partnership with Trade unions.

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information with fully developed persuasion, negotiating and influencing skills
*Ability to work autonomously, without direct supervision and as part of a team
*Good IT skills (to include as a minimum: Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
*Ability to interpret and apply Terms and Conditions of Employment
*Ability to set own priorities, meet tight deadlines and work independently
*Ability to gain and maintain credibility and establish good working relationships with staff at all levels across the organisation
*Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
*Able to pay attention to detail
*Able to concentrate with frequent interruptions and where work is unpredictable
*Able to deal with distressing or emotional circumstances, frequently when imparting information e.g., discipline, sickness
*Proactive with the ability to work on own initiative, responding to immediate requests
*Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
*Proactive and self-motivated.
*Ability to work across all Trust sites.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)