Employee Relations Advisor
Job overview
Here at St. George’s, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Therefore, it is important that we take a ‘Just & Learning’ culture approach to Employee Relations – putting ‘Human’ back into HR.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the Human Resources Directorate is to set a cleardirection for human resource management across St George’s
and to use the Trust’s vision and values as a basis for real
change to improve working lives for our staff to enable us to
continue to deliver excellent care for our patients.
The ER operational team provides a specialist advisory
service to both staff and managers across a wide range of
Human Resources matters including; recruitment, medical
staffing workforce information, terms and conditions, HR
policy, employee benefits, employee relations, workforce
strategy and retention.
Working for our organisation
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's principal teaching hospitals and our main site is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.We have over 9,000 dedicated staff serving a population of 1.3 million across south-west London.
We deliver a large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation. We also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a range of community services to patients.
***Please note that the successful candidate will be required to work 3 days on Site***
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Membership of the CIPD or minimum of successful completion of first year of CIPD study with continuing study to obtain full membership Educated to degree level or equivalent
- MCIPD
Skills
Essential criteria- Able to contribute immediately to the work of the department and establishing professional credibility
- Ability to work unsupervised and to demonstrate ability to use initiative in relation to resolving employee relations issues
- Proven interpersonal and influencing skills, particularly in relation to supporting managers with employee relations issues
- At least a year (or more) of previous Case Management/ER Experience in a busy team
- Able to work/cope with pressure, in a team particularly in dealing with variety of competing pioritiesing priorities
- Coaching skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Up to date knowledge of employment law and good employment practice.
- Agenda for change Job matching process