Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior HR Adviser to join our dynamic HR team. To provide a professional, comprehensive, and timely Employee Relations service to Directorates or Corporate departments and to ensure the HR Business Unit delivers an exceptional, professional, effective, and efficient service to the Trust as measured by internal service level agreements or key performance indicators.
To take the lead on specific areas e.g. Agenda for Change, Equality and Diversity, Recruitment, and HR communications as directed by the Employee Relations Manager.
Responsibilities
* Manage an operational caseload, ensuring cases are managed to quality standards
* Provide an objective and professional approach regarding job analysis
* Support HR Business Partners in all aspects of change management to ensure that change, where possible, is planned, managed and implemented in accordance with Trust policies
* Support HR Business Partners and where required deliver HR training
* Provide advice and support to HR Business Partners as appropriate.
* Monitor trends in employment practice/caseload within KMPT
* Handle referred individual grievance, disciplinary and capability cases, in addition to organisational change through all formal stages up to and including preparation for tribunal and other legal proceedings.
* Be actively involved in investigations, including the preparation of all documentation for hearings in conjunction with managers.
* Assist in the development and review of employment policies, including response to legislative changes
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
About KMPT
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones. The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy: Our mission is what we set out to do every day — We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision is where we want to be in the future — To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025.
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