• Job Description

  Req#: B0265-24-0019?language=en&page=92&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Senior HR Advisor will play a vital role in supporting the HR team in delivering comprehensive HR solutions to the organisation. You will collaborate with senior HR, managers, and employees to ensure a positive and productive environment, compliance with HR policies and procedures, and the achievement of strategic business goals.

  Main duties of the job

  You will be a HR generalist, preferably CIPD qualified, will have robust Employee Relations, experience gained in a high customer service orientated environment (ideally health care, NHS, retail or charity).

  The people agenda is seen as high profile and the organisation takes it seriously. The personal skillset for this role is exemplary communication, interpersonal, organisational skills and the ability to inspire confidence and hit the ground running.

  This role is offered on a 6 month fixed term basis.

  Due to the location of both Hospices, access to your own transport is essential.

  This role will be predominantly based at St Barnabas House, however, the team works across different sites and there may be requirement for you to work at Martlets or Chestnut Tree House to meet the needs of the service.

  About us

  St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services. Our sister hospice, Chestnut Tree Tree House is a childrens hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

  We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer various family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

  You will be joining our organisation at a very exciting time, as St Barnabas Hospices and Martlets Hospice are in the process of merging. Bringing our teams and resources together, as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

  Date posted

  27 February 2024

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £35,798 to £40,340 a year depending on depth and variety of experience

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  6 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  B0265-24-0019

  Job locations

  Titnore Lane

  Worthing

  West Sussex

  BN12 6NZ

  
  

  Chestnut Tree House

  Dover Lane

  Poling

  Arundel

  West Sussex

  BN18 9PX

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the full job description to view all the duties and responsibilities of this exciting new opportunity

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the full job description to view all the duties and responsibilities of this exciting new opportunity

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Desirable

  • Level 5 CIPD qualification

  Knowledge

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of health care/NHS sector desirable

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to undertake tasks, which demonstrate ability to work on own initiative.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, high standard of verbal and written communication, approachable and compassionate style.
  • Able to structure own workload and manage competing priorities.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.
  • Access to a car and full driving licence for travel between site locations

  Experience

  Essential

  • Proven experience in resolving complex HR issues
  • Exposure/Understanding of absence, performance, grievance, disciplinary management and change management.
  • Ability to deliver guidance to managers and staff on conditions of employment and employee relation issues including sickness absence, performance management, grievance and disciplinary investigations.
  • Experience working on employee relations cases and to have experience in disciplinary (up to and including dismissal), grievance, absence management, flexible working, maternity.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Desirable

  • Level 5 CIPD qualification

  Knowledge

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of health care/NHS sector desirable

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to undertake tasks, which demonstrate ability to work on own initiative.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, high standard of verbal and written communication, approachable and compassionate style.
  • Able to structure own workload and manage competing priorities.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.
  • Access to a car and full driving licence for travel between site locations

  Experience

  Essential

  • Proven experience in resolving complex HR issues
  • Exposure/Understanding of absence, performance, grievance, disciplinary management and change management.
  • Ability to deliver guidance to managers and staff on conditions of employment and employee relation issues including sickness absence, performance management, grievance and disciplinary investigations.
  • Experience working on employee relations cases and to have experience in disciplinary (up to and including dismissal), grievance, absence management, flexible working, maternity.
  • Demonstrable experience of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders including managers, trade unions, employees and external partners.

  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

  St Barnabas Hospices

  Address

  Titnore Lane

  Worthing

  West Sussex

  BN12 6NZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  St Barnabas Hospices

  Address

  Titnore Lane

  Worthing

  West Sussex

  BN12 6NZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.stbarnabas-hospice.org.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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