Job overview

Bank HR Advisor 

We are seeking an experienced HR Advisor to join our Staff Bank on a flexible basis. This role involves providing professional HR advice and support across the Trust on all ER matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence issues with minimal supervision, ensuring compliance with employment legislation and Trust policies.

You will be experienced in providing excellent HR support and advice when undertaking/supporting formal investigations (including taking comprehensive notes at investigatory meetings). To assist in the presentation of cases up to and including dismissal. Ability to build credibility with managers and staff through the use of effective interpersonal skills. Attention to detail, ability to plan and organise own workload.

You will be be CIPD qualified (level 7 or equivalent experience) with a current registration and have demonstrable experience of working in a busy operational HR environment. Experience of working in an NHS environment is desirable.

This role involves travel to sites across Kent and South East London, including the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.

We have distinctive values at Oxleas - We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care. Our values are very important to us. They help Oxleas to be a great place to work. 

For an informal discussion please contact Debbie Clifford, Head of ER & HR Business Partnering: [email protected]

Main duties of the job

To support the HR Business Partner in providing a fully comprehensive and high quality HR support and advisory service to the Trust managers and staff in support of the Workforce Strategy and business and operational planning processes of the relevant Directorates.

To advise and support managers and medical staff on appropriate action to take on disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence issues with minimal supervision, in line with Trust policies and procedures. Where managers are new to this area, providing hands on support and advice and training to help up-skill the managers.

To attend informal/formal meetings/hearings as necessary and advise on management reports and correspondence in accordance with Trust procedures. To assist in the presentation of cases up to and including dismissal and attend appeals and tribunals as and when necessary.

To deliver an effective and timely HR Advisory service by working in partnership with managers on HR related issues, such as those arising from restructuring and change exercises.

To produce and monitor monthly ER related statistics, including absence data and interpret information, identify problem areas, and work with managers to address them.

To keep up-to-date with current employment law legislation and best practice, and ensure that these are reflected in current HR practice. Highlight and address any changes to these and take appropriate action.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

· We’re Kind

· We’re Fair

· We Listen

· We Care