Job summary
Schoen Clinic York is looking for someone to join our dedicated team as an Interim HR Advisor on a 6-month fixed-term contract. In this role, youll work closely with our Hospital Director and wider HR team, delivering expert on-site support across a wide range of HR matters. Youll play a key part in ensuring our HR policies and procedures are applied consistently and effectively, whilst fully aligned with current employment legislation.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include embedding company policies, managing induction and probation processes, overseeing compliance reporting, enhancing the use of our HR Information System (HRIS), and providing invaluable guidance to line managers on employee relations issues, always ensuring adherence to both internal guidelines and legal standards.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute directly to our hospitals growth strategy. Youll empower our managers with practical HR knowledge and tools, enabling them to operate confidently and independently, while remaining supported by our central HR team beyond the conclusion of this contract.
This role will be based on site 5 days per week between usual weekday working hours (9am - 5:30pm).
If youre looking to make an impact within a dynamic healthcare environment, wed love to hear from you!
About us
The Schoen Clinic Group (schoen-klinik.de) was founded in 1985 and has since developed into Germany's fifth-largest privately-owned hospital group, with 12,000 employees. It currently treats around 300,000 patients annually at 16 hospitals and 30 outpatient and day-clinic facilities in Germany and the UK. The group also includes the leading online telemedicine clinic: MindDoc.
Schoen Clinic entered the UK healthcare market in 2017, providing award-winning, expert-led healthcare specialising only in certain areas of medicine mental health, complex dementia care and eating disorders at Schoen Clinic Chelsea, and Schoen Clinic York.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Employee Relations
To advise, guide and support managers
with all matters relating to employee relations concerns; in a timely manner
and in line with policies and procedures.
Attendance at relevant ER meetings where
appropriate.
Effective case management of people
related issues such as: disciplinary, performance management, grievance and
absence management whilst utilising the ER Tracker.
Monitoring trends in employment practices
and advising on appropriate proactive action.
Reporting on employee relation activity
with supporting narrative at both site and Executive Board level.
Escalating complex employee relation
cases (including potential cases for suspension) to the UK HR Director for
where appropriate.
Support management Occupational Health
referrals.
Recruitment & Retention
Working collaboratively with the
Recruitment Business Partner on recruitment & selection processes.
Analyse and escalate relevant responses
from all new starter and farewell feedback surveys.
Management and support of all probation
periods across the group.
Reporting
Produce scheduled and ad-hoc reports at
the request of the UK HR Director & Hospital Director.
Run all relevant reports from the LMS
system when required.
Support with the development and
reporting on monthly KPIs with the HR Dashboard.
Conduct HR Audits with key measurables
to identify risk and implement change and/or improvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Employee Relations
To advise, guide and support managers
with all matters relating to employee relations concerns; in a timely manner
and in line with policies and procedures.
Attendance at relevant ER meetings where
appropriate.
Effective case management of people
related issues such as: disciplinary, performance management, grievance and
absence management whilst utilising the ER Tracker.
Monitoring trends in employment practices
and advising on appropriate proactive action.
Reporting on employee relation activity
with supporting narrative at both site and Executive Board level.
Escalating complex employee relation
cases (including potential cases for suspension) to the UK HR Director for
where appropriate.
Support management Occupational Health
referrals.
Recruitment & Retention
Working collaboratively with the
Recruitment Business Partner on recruitment & selection processes.
Analyse and escalate relevant responses
from all new starter and farewell feedback surveys.
Management and support of all probation
periods across the group.
Reporting
Produce scheduled and ad-hoc reports at
the request of the UK HR Director & Hospital Director.
Run all relevant reports from the LMS
system when required.
Support with the development and
reporting on monthly KPIs with the HR Dashboard.
Conduct HR Audits with key measurables
to identify risk and implement change and/or improvement.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Youre an experienced HR professional with a solid background in the healthcare sector. Youre confident managing employee relations cases from start to finish and have a strong grasp of HR metrics and KPI reporting.
- Youre comfortable working autonomously, have a sharp eye for detail, and arent afraid to challenge the status quo to influence key decisions. Youre also well-versed in Microsoft Windows, HR systems, and understand the importance of data protection, GDPR, and confidentiality standards.
- Familiarity with PeopleHR or similar HR systems will give you a head start, as will any training in mediation or conflict resolution. Your ability to navigate complex situations with empathy and clarity will make you a trusted partner to managers and colleagues alike.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Youre an experienced HR professional with a solid background in the healthcare sector. Youre confident managing employee relations cases from start to finish and have a strong grasp of HR metrics and KPI reporting.
- Youre comfortable working autonomously, have a sharp eye for detail, and arent afraid to challenge the status quo to influence key decisions. Youre also well-versed in Microsoft Windows, HR systems, and understand the importance of data protection, GDPR, and confidentiality standards.
- Familiarity with PeopleHR or similar HR systems will give you a head start, as will any training in mediation or conflict resolution. Your ability to navigate complex situations with empathy and clarity will make you a trusted partner to managers and colleagues alike.
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.
