Senior HR Advisor / HR Generalist
Location: Northampton
Permanent Full-Time / flexible working
Salary: £38,761 - £48,000 depending on experience.
This role would suit an established Senior HR Advisor or Junior HR Business Partner looking for a new challenge, or a HR Advisor, People Advisor, Employee Relations (ER) Advisor, HR Officer with good strong operational experience who can manage their own workload looking for that next step up where they will gain personal development and mentoring from an established HR Business Partner.
St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting key stakeholders in providing advice and guidance regarding people challenges within their teams and taking a pragmatic approach to the management of these.
- Responsibility for an ER case load and ensuring proactive support and management of this.
- Work with the HR Business Partner and Senior Management team, collating and analysing workforce planning data to establish trends and propose resolutions to workforce planning issues.
- Build and maintain confidential relationships with key stakeholders and managers to assist them to develop plans, undertake workforce planning and partner the leadership team in their regular operational meetings.
- Support managers to effectively use the dashboard data, providing local extracts as required, identifying key trends and concerns to promptly resolve issues and negative trends and to support the needs of the Charity.
- Identify performance and development needs linked to manager’s people management capability and provide the relevant targeted support/ coaching or other L&D interventions to improve this.
- Provide local leadership/management of the HR element in change projects, with support of HR Business Partner as required.
- Provide HR support, focusing on engagement and coaching in line with, Human Resources Policies and Procedures, best practice and the Charity’s HR Strategy.
- Proactively support business areas to have active talent management plans including succession planning and maximising development opportunities in conjunction with the HR Business Partner and L&D team.
If you have demonstrable operational HR experience, excellent knowledge and experience of HR best practice, can work autonomously at this level, and have strong influencing and communication skills, then please submit apply or get in touch to discuss further.
Reward
- Pension
- 35 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Sickness policy on par with NHS
- Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes
- Life cover
- Car lease scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunities for continuing professional development
