People Services Advisor

We are seeking a proactive People Services Advisor to join our People Directorate at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a key advisory role, providing high-quality, timely HR advice and support to managers and staff across the Trust. You will act as a first point of contact for people management queries, with a particular focus on all matter of employee relations casework, including sickness absence management, conduct, capability and dignity at work.

This role is critical in supporting leaders to manage people matters effectively, consistently and in line with Trust policy and employment legislation.

As a People Services Advisor, you will:

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• A working knowledge and understanding of current employment legislation
• Up to date knowledge of the content and requirements of HR issues facing the NHS
• Understanding of the need of confidentiality awareness at all times

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS Terms and Conditions of Service
• Knowledge of medical workforce Terms and Conditions of Service
• Knowledge of Maintaining High Professional Standards for Medical & Dental staff (MHPS)

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to 'A' level or equivalent level qualifications or equivalent level of HR knowledge, gained through training and experience
• Evidence of commitment to on going personal development

Desirable

• CIPD Level 3 Certificate in HR practice

Further Training

Essential

• CIPD Level 3 Certificate in HR practice to be undertaken within 2 years of being in pos

Experience

Essential

• Experience in supporting the management of employee relations cases to include disciplinary, grievance, Dignity at Work and Capability to formal hearing level
• Involvement in communication with trade union representatives
• Ability to produce clear and succinct reports, notes / minutes and correspondence
• Dissemination of statistical information on a monthly basis
• Excellent interpersonal skills including sensitivity and ability to influence, persuade, motivate and negotiate

Desirable

• NHS Experience
• Experience of working in Acute Provider NHS settings

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Continued professional development
• Flexible in working pattern to ensure needs of the service are achieved.

About the employer

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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