Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to University Hospitals Tees.  If you are not currently working within the South Tees NHS Foundation Trust or North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Group HR Absence Management Lead to proactively support the management of sickness absence across the Group.  working across South Tees and North Tees

The postholder will report to the Group ER Business Partner or HRBP and will work as part of a small specialist team, with a specific focus on absence management.  They will adopt a support and drive absence case management and will provide robust guidance to managers to ensure absence is proactively managed and individual action plans and interventions are implemented. 

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the wider HR Team, the successful candidate will develop effective working relationships with colleagues from unions and professional bodies and will absence management initiatives across the Trust.

The successful candidate will demonstrate HR knowledge acquired through HR / Employment Law Degree or through relevant training and experience to degree level.  They will have experience of managing complex HR case work, and particular experience in managing complex absence cases. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivation and a focus on a focus on key performance objectives and will need to be able to develop excellent relationships with a variety of key stakeholders across the Group.

This is a challenging and exciting time to join the NHS, and the successful candidate will be supported by their management team to complete team and individual objectives, including regular opportunities for communication, welfare discussions, sharing of information and team development.  The team is currently working to an office rota, where time is spent working both on site and remotely.

If you would like an exciting, dynamic, and vibrant opportunity and would like to contribute to the fantastic efforts of the NHS then this role is for you.

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff.  This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the following training sessions

·         Your Leadership Impact

·         Leading your Team to Success

·         Leading Into the Future

·         Service Improvement for Beginners

·         Developing your Service Improvement Skills

·         Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

·         Explore leadership within the NHS

·         Promote Trust values and behaviours

·         Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills

·         Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

 After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided

courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.