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People partner

Colchester (Essex)
Permanent
Provide Community
€51,210 a year
Posted: 1 February
Offer description

Main area Human Resources Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term 12 Months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE3889
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide HQ Town Colchester Salary £47,810 - £54,710 pa Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59


Job Overview

Reporting to the Director, People Partnering, the People Partner will ensure that they contribute People expertise to business decision making and develop innovative people solutions to support business plans and strategy.
You will work as a strategic People Partner supporting the Provide Group, providing specialised workforce focused expertise and advice to ensure our people are capable, effective and healthy, and ultimately able to deliver great care.
You will support organisational change to help implement the business strategy and foster a climate of positive employee relations.


Key Responsibilities of the Role

* investigate, manage, and advise on complex and sensitive people issues providing advice and guidance to all levels within the Provide Group.
* create insight, impact and challenge to support the drive for positive change by working in partnership with management through being evidence based, and outcomes driven in approach.
* support the creation and embedding of excellent people practices within the Provide Group, including reporting on workforce KPIs and taking appropriate action to improve KPIs as required.
* help build and sustain people management capacity through effective coaching of managers in applying HR policy and practice and helping deliver improvements in how employee performance is maximised.
* To lead change management and TUPE programmes, ensuring legal compliance.


Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times.


Vision

Transforming Lives


Values

Care, Innovation and Compassion


Mission

High-quality services for all ages


Employee relations

* To facilitate informal resolution of Disciplinary, Grievance, Dignity at Work, Capability, Whistleblowing, Freedom To Speak Up matters to ensure an early resolution is gained, where appropriate.
* In conjunction with other colleagues within the People Directorate interpret and advise on employment legislation, HR Policies, procedures and terms and conditions of service, ensuring professional advice is always given, seeking expert advice from the Director – People Partnering as required.

Provide specialist HR support to managers in formal panel hearings (Disciplinary, Performance, Grievance and Management of Attendance) attending as the HR expert adviser.

* To proactively manage through liaison with colleagues the throughput and quality of employee relations casework ensuring appropriate and effective timeframes for casework management are achieved.
* Support the Lead People Partner with highly complex and sensitive fixed term contract cases/as well as cases related to senior medics and senior management.


Person Specification


Qualifications

* Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent / Post graduate Diploma in HR Management or equivalent demonstrable experience.
* CIPD qualified (level 7 Diploma) or significant demonstrable experience.


Experience


Essential criteria

* Extensive experience of working in an HR generalist role, delivering a range of successful HR interventions.
* Experience of working within the Health & Social Care sector.
* Extensive experience of providing specialist HR advice to managers on complex employee relation matters.


Desirable criteria

* Understanding of NHS terms and conditions.
* Ability to use Electronic Staff Records System.


Further Information


How will we contact you

* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.


Checking progress on your application

To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.


Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.


Professional UK clinical registration required for the role

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.


COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination. We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.


Anti Frauds

Our staff have been trained in ‘Anti-Fraud’ and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.


Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.


Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.


Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.


Equal Opportunities

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

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