About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our People and Workforce Teams at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and George Eliot NHS Trust and play a key role working across both organisations as People and Workforce Advisor focusing on sickness absence management and promoting a healthy working enviroment.
Appointees will join established teams, providing a specialist HR advisory service across the Trust in relation to sickness absence management and improving attendance. The role helps to increase the awareness of the policy for line managers through working with divisional management teams, Occupational Health and the wider People and Workforce teams. As such, the postholder will have a solid grounding in generalist HR and absence management and a passion for supporting staff and mangers, whilst maintaining a compassionate and person-centred approach.
Location
This role will work across both Trusts being based at Warwick and Nuneaton, although we make full use of agile working and operate with a combination of home and office based-working.
Main Duties
To provide a highly professional specialist HR advisory service across the Trust with a particular focus on reducing sickness absence and improving attendance.
To be the first point of call for all managers across the Trust in relation to sickness absence management offering:
* Lead Specialist in management of sickness absence in relation to particular cases of sickness absence;
* Support to managers in sickness absence meetings with employees and their staff side representatives;
* Develop and produce reports using Trust systems to ensure effective monitoring of all sickness absence cases across the Trust
Overall, it is intended that the post holder will provide an enhanced level of support to the management of sickness absence within each division and service.
To support the People and Workforce Team in maintaining a professional, comprehensive, timely and accurate HR service to the Trust and to contribute to strategy formulation and implementation. Ensuring that HR policies and processes are well integrated into business planning, service management and Trust objectives.
Why Join Us?
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesnt matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
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