Job overview
This is a key role with responsibility for supporting the Associate Business Partner and working within a small but dedicated and effective Business Partnering team in delivering a credible, timely and highly specialist employee relations service to the organisation.
Responsible for a Clinical /non-clinical support services portfolio, the postholder will ensure all employee relations cases and fact-finding investigations related to Agenda for Change staff are effectively managed. In doing so ensuring this is in partnership with key stakeholders and approaches taken align with the principles of a just and restorative culture.
In addition to operational advice on ER matters, the ER Partner also has a key role to play in supporting the wider progression of business partnering function, any strategic employee relations work programmes and the delivery of training across the Trust.
We are noted as being a continuously improving Trust with great leadership and clear aspirations, and positive future plans.
If you are passionate about delivering a proactive, person‑centred, Just Culture approach to employee relations, and want to be part of a forward‑thinking, continuously improving organisation and team, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This role is responsible for the delivery of employee relations processes, providing guidance to managers and employees, working to deliver and ensure appropriate responses to any related employment issues that arise.
The postholder will ensure all employee relations cases and fact-finding investigations related to Agenda for Change staff are effectively managed and resourced working collaboratively with colleagues across the People and Culture Directorate as necessary and
with staff side and staff networks, in particularly working closely with the Business Partnering team.
The postholder must adopt a Just Culture approach to employee relations matters, ensuring all investigation processes are constructive rather than destructive. This means looking first at what was responsible for an issue or situation before looking at who was responsible.
The actions of individuals need to be placed into context early on in investigations.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
Essential criteria
1. HRM degree or related business studies degree or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
2. Fully CIPD qualified or working towards its completion.
Experience/knowledge
Essential criteria
3. experience in an operational HR role at least some of which will have been in the NHS
4. generalist HR experience to specialist level including application and interpretation of national and local terms and conditions
Desirable criteria
5. Knowledge of Employee Relations issues and employment law
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936