HR Advisor

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:

We will support you and your community to live well.

Our values:

Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.

WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and competent person to join our busy HR department as a HR Advisor on permanent basis.

Reporting to a Senior HR Advisors, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of a proactive, effective and high quality Human Resource service to line managers and employees.

Main duties of the job

The HR team have a strong emphasis on partnering our services through a professional and credible HR service, and the HR Advisor will support the effective delivery of the People Strategy. Providing advice to managers within their areas of responsibility, the post holder will manage a busy workload offering advice on sickness management, flexible working, parental leave, retirement etc.

As an ambassador for the HR team, you must have excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain professional relationships with a range of colleagues and managers. You will also have proven IT skills including use of MS Office packages.

The successful candidate will have the ability to work effectively within a team, deal with sensitive and confidential issues and work flexibly.

Working for our organisation

The role is based at St Catherine's Health Centre, Birkenhead, however there is a current arrangement to work from home for part of the week.

WCHC is an innovative organisation characterised by compassion, openness, trust and delivering great care to our communities.

We are looking for outstanding, passionate individual to support the amazing people who are directly influencing the health, care and well-being of our friends, family and the communities we serve. If you would like to be a part of making a difference to our community then we look forward to hearing from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As such, the ability to gain and maintain credibility and establish good working relationships with staff at all levels across the organisation is essential.

The successful post holder will support all aspects of absence management case work, ensuring compliance to legislation and polices.

The role will involve manipulating and analysing workforce data to identify areas requiring support regarding sickness absence management.

The successful post holder will also contribute to the review and development of HR policy and procedures which impact across the organisation.

It will be essential for post holders to be able to work autonomously, managing and prioritising their own workload effectively, with the ability to respond to competing priorities whilst paying attention to detail and maintaining a high standard of work.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to NVQ Level 3 in Business Studies or equivalent relevant experience
• ECDL or equivalent experience
• Certificate in Personnel and Practice (or interest in working towards) or equivalent knowledge and skills

Experience and knowledge

• Experience or knowledge of working with Oracle based systems and dealing with complex data
• Experience of working within a busy HR environment
• Knowledge of implementing and advising Managers on HR policies and employment legislation
• Ability to make recommendations for improvements to HR policies and procedures

• Knowledge or experience of NHS or similar public sector organisation
• Maintaining computerised and manual filing systems

Skills and attributes

• Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective communication and negotiation skills in working with operational managers in relation to HR issues
• Ability to use empathy and remain calm under pressure
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise and achieve results within defined timescales
• Proven problem solving skills

Personal qualities

• Ability to use own initiative
• Good team player
• Ability to deal with employees or managers sensitively
• Ability to develop good working relationships
• Independently mobile with driving license and insurance for business use

Important Information

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.

We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.

We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.

Further Information:

Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.

Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.

Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made. For all part-time positions, salaries are pro-rata.

We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Restricted Applications: Staff on the Trust's Redeployment Register will be given priority access to vacancies at their substantive band.

Flexible Working: Flexible working is very important to the Trust in both the provision of this to staff and also in staff supporting the provision of our services.

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to discharging its statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults and will support staff to fulfil this duty.