Job overview

At Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, our vision is clear: to deliver outstanding mental health, learning disability, autism, and community-based services for the people we serve.

As one of the region’s largest employers, we’re committed to supporting, developing, and retaining our incredible workforce. We strive to be the employer of choice a place where colleagues feel valued, proud, and inspired every day.

Do you want to be part of this vision? Are you ready to take the next step in your HR career and experience genuine pride in your work? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our dynamic HR Business Partnering Team. This is a part-time role (24 hours per week), perfect for someone who wants to make a real impact while enjoying flexibility.

You’ll work across our Lancashire & South Cumbria footprint with a hybrid approach, combining home working with time on key Trust sites.

If you’re passionate about people, thrive on collaboration, and want to help shape a positive workplace culture, this is your chance to join a team that truly makes a difference.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will provide a professional and proactive HR advisory service, aligned with our Trust values. You will build strong relationships and coach managers to develop effective people practices. You will be a key point of contact for managers, using a coaching approach, you will help them to deal with a wide range of employee relations issues including disciplinary, grievance, absence management, performance management and organisational change programmes. 

Supporting workforce KPIs and contributing to strategic priorities, you will get involved in policy development, organisational change programmes, manager training, and HR projects—no two days are the same!

You will use Microsoft Teams, email and phone to provide a range of HR advice and where appropriate you will meet with managers and staff face to face. You will bring HR advisory experience and be CIPD qualified. NHS experience is an advantage but is not essential. 

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
 
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
 
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.