• Job Description

  Req#: C9372-25-0584?language=en&page=317&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Are you a dedicated HR professional with a passion for patient care?

  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust invites you to apply for a transformative role as a Human Resources Adviser. Join our highly qualified Operational HR team, where you'll support our Surgery and Anaesthetics Division in creating a thriving workplace that values and champions thewellbeing of our colleagues and teams.

  Main duties of the job

  Why Join Us?

  • Supportive, Collaborative Team: You'll work alongside a team of seasoned HR and organisational development professionals, each committed to professional and personal growt

  • Career Progression & Development: With access to continuous learning opportunities, we are here to support your journey toward excellence in HR and wellbeing.

  • Values-Driven Environment: Our Trust has a reputation as an employer of choice, built on respect, integrity, and an unrelenting focus on patient care and workforce wellbeing.

  About us

  Why Join Us?

  CHFT is nationally recognised for its innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional care. The Trust has received national recognition been highlighted in several high-profile platforms, including:

  Value for Money Excellence: Recognised by NHS Providers for our outstanding ability to deliver value for money while ensuring high-quality patient care (Providers Deliver: Achieving valuefor money (nhsproviders.org));

  Tackling NHS Waiting Lists: Featured in Sky News for our success in significantly reducing waiting lists, setting a benchmark for other NHS trusts across the country (This NHS trust got a grip of its waiting list - can others around the country do the same? | UK News | Sky News)

  Health Service Award for Performance Recovery (2023): Proudly shortlisted for this prestigious award, showcasing CHFT's journey to tackle its pandemic elective waiting lists.

  Details

  Date posted

  09 September 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum, pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

  Reference number

  372-SURG1995

  Job locations

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Mill

  Lindley

  HD3 3EB

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Who Were Looking For:

  Were seeking a CIPD-qualified HR practitioner (or someone actively working toward this qualification) with demonstrated experience in providing HR support and advice within a large, complex organisation. The ideal candidate will have:

  A strong background in general or Medical HR, ideally with experience in employee relations and wellbeing.

  The ability to build strong relationships, influence decision-making, and coach line managers on handling a range of HR matters.

  A proactive, resilient approach to workload management in a dynamic healthcare setting.

  If you're passionate about making a tangible impact on employee wellbeing while supporting outstanding patient care, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your career with us

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Who Were Looking For:

  Were seeking a CIPD-qualified HR practitioner (or someone actively working toward this qualification) with demonstrated experience in providing HR support and advice within a large, complex organisation. The ideal candidate will have:

  A strong background in general or Medical HR, ideally with experience in employee relations and wellbeing.

  The ability to build strong relationships, influence decision-making, and coach line managers on handling a range of HR matters.

  A proactive, resilient approach to workload management in a dynamic healthcare setting.

  If you're passionate about making a tangible impact on employee wellbeing while supporting outstanding patient care, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your career with us

  Person Specification

  QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

  Essential

  • CIPD Qualification/Post Graduate HR Qualification or working towards qualification or significant experience
  • To maintain own CPD ensuring that knowledge and understanding is reviewed and updated to enable appropriate and relevant advice is provided

  Desirable

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience

  KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

  Essential

  • Proven experience of providing HR support and advice in all aspects of employee relation matters
  • Influencing and supporting line managers to manage informal and formal HR issues
  • Ability to deliver change management projects
  • Up to date with employment law and best practice.
  • Able to interpret and implement HR policies and procedures.
  • Proactive approach to identifying risks and implementing plans to address them.
  • Understanding of the NHS and the NHS HR agenda
  • Competent in Microsoft Office, able use the internet for research purposes
  • Advanced keyboard skills - the ability to gather data from ESR and manipulate this using Exce
  • Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and data protection

  Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience in a HR role
  • Project management
  • Experience of working in a unionized environment
  • Understanding of NHS terms and conditions of service
  • Managing organisational change issues

  COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

  Essential

  • Able to demonstrate motivation and resilience.
  • To plan and manage own workload in a challenging environment of competing and changing priorities
  • Demonstrate the ability to interact with people at all levels in the organisation and build positive working relationships
  • Able to influence managers and cultures to promote change and support organisational/service objectives
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to develop relationships with internal partners as well as external
  • Ability to work in a team/own initiative
  • Ability to gather facts and write and present complex reports
  • Demonstrate the ability to concentrate for prolonged periods where frequent interruptions occur and the work pattern is unpredictable

  Person Specification

  QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

  Essential

  • CIPD Qualification/Post Graduate HR Qualification or working towards qualification or significant experience
  • To maintain own CPD ensuring that knowledge and understanding is reviewed and updated to enable appropriate and relevant advice is provided

  Desirable

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience

  KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

  Essential

  • Proven experience of providing HR support and advice in all aspects of employee relation matters
  • Influencing and supporting line managers to manage informal and formal HR issues
  • Ability to deliver change management projects
  • Up to date with employment law and best practice.
  • Able to interpret and implement HR policies and procedures.
  • Proactive approach to identifying risks and implementing plans to address them.
  • Understanding of the NHS and the NHS HR agenda
  • Competent in Microsoft Office, able use the internet for research purposes
  • Advanced keyboard skills - the ability to gather data from ESR and manipulate this using Exce
  • Understanding of the importance of confidentiality and data protection

  Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience in a HR role
  • Project management
  • Experience of working in a unionized environment
  • Understanding of NHS terms and conditions of service
  • Managing organisational change issues

  COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

  Essential

  • Able to demonstrate motivation and resilience.
  • To plan and manage own workload in a challenging environment of competing and changing priorities
  • Demonstrate the ability to interact with people at all levels in the organisation and build positive working relationships
  • Able to influence managers and cultures to promote change and support organisational/service objectives
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to develop relationships with internal partners as well as external
  • Ability to work in a team/own initiative
  • Ability to gather facts and write and present complex reports
  • Demonstrate the ability to concentrate for prolonged periods where frequent interruptions occur and the work pattern is unpredictable

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Mill

  Lindley

  HD3 3EB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Huddersfield Royal Infirmary

  Acre Mill

  Lindley

  HD3 3EB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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