Senior Hr Advisor

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a broad and interesting role where you can make an impact with your expertise?

Pilgrims Hospices has an excellent opportunity suited to an experienced HR Advisor looking for their next step as a Senior HR Advisor.

This role would offer the successful candidate the opportunity to develop their HR practice across a broad range of professional areas, developing experience in a generalist role while also providing specialist recruitment and clinical guidance to our staff .

This is a permanent, part time position for a Senior HR Advisor (28 hours per week) and is based at Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury.

This is a role that operates across our hospice and retail sites in East Kent when required with some hybrid working possible.

A working schedule that suits the right candidate can be discussed at interview.

You will be provided with on-site parking and subsidised meals during your work day.

Main duties of the job

As one of our Senior HR Advisors, you will partner with the clinical areas and oversee recruitment.

Your main responsibilities will include :

Being responsible for allocated business areas providing dedicated, expert advice in relation to employee relations, absence and performance management and ensuring compliance with basic employment legislation and organisational policy.

Acting as the first point of contact for managers within their dedicated business areas, including providing generalist HR advice.

Providing advice to managers in relation to complex workforce matters and supporting performance management.

Supporting in the development of the HR function, including reviewing policies and their application, use of our HR systems,

Delivering training and coaching in HR practice, developing skills and management capability, ensuring managers are equipped with the appropriate knowledge and skills to succeed.

Working in partnership with management to develop services and drive forward organisational strategy, delivering a tangible benefit to our service users.

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision :

Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of

our Vision

and our charitable aims.

Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.

To achieve

our Vision

, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be.

They form

our CODE

, which guides us in our daily working and decision making :

Compassionate

We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open

We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic

We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered

We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Job responsibilities

Client Area

The Senior HR Advisorwill be responsible for one or more internal client groups, for whom the advisorwill act as the first point of contact and will provide dedicated, expertadvice and oversight across the workforce.

This will include :

• Attendingkey management meetings within their dedicated client area(s);
• Supportactivity within the client area to embed organisational initiatives andcommunications;

Developmentof client area specific policy and process(es).

Employee Relations

The Senior HR advisorwill provide specialist support across the whole spectrum of EmployeeRelations.

This will include :

Supportand / or delivery of employees engagement initiatives, in consultation withmanagers, that will drive cultural change and lead to a more efficient andmotivated workforce.

HR Business Partnering

The Senior HR Advisor acts as a BusinessPartner to their client groups, helping them to forward plan and make informedstrategic decisions.

These activities will include :

Tosupport the preparation and implementation of annual pay awards and otherinitiatives.

With guidance from theVolunteering Coordinator, the post holder will support managers to developvolunteering opportunities within their teams and ensure volunteers remainintegrated within a single workforce.

Thepost holder is responsible for oversight of Pilgrims Hospices recruitment needsand processes.

Responsibilities include :

Supportingrecruitment managers to deliver recruitment initiatives such as open-days, jobfairs, targeted advertising etc.

Person Specification

Experience

Demonstrate a business-focused approach to HR in a large organisation.

Experience in delivering bespoke advice and guidance to management, advising on complex employee relations issues.

Experience of coaching managers and facilitating basic HR training sessions with staff.

Strong experience of different Employee Relations issues in the workplace, with ability to manage difficult conversations and processes.

Strong experience of HR systems administration, with ability to maximise system potential.

Experience or knowledge of developing and delivering employee engagements programmes, linked to staff engagement and staff survey.

High level interpersonal skills displaying credibility, resilience and influence.

Exceptional attention to detail.

Ability to analyse and present information appropriately to both managers and staff.

Sound judgment and decision making.

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing is clearly, professionally and persuasively.

Self-motivated and organised, with excellent prioritisation skills.

Excellent I.T. skills, including experience with Microsoft databases.

Knowledge of basic UK employment legislation

Experience with clinical recruitment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order)

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