Job Description

Do you have a proven track record of providing expert HR advice across the full employment cycle? Are you keen to build on your experience in a fast-paced function with an ambitious people agenda?We Are Offering An Exciting Opportunity To Join Our Business Partnering Team, Supporting The Integrated & Specialist Medicine Clinical Group. You Will Be Working In a Small Embedded Workforce Team And You Will Be The Key Point Of Contact For Managers Across The Clinical Group. You WillProvide detailed advice and guidance on the interpretation of Trust policies, procedures and employment legislation.Act as the interface between the People embedded team and the Workforce Relations team.Analyse workforce data, including staff survey results for directorates, to identify trends, hotspots, and risks, and recommend proactive solutions.Work with HR Business Partners to develop and deliver training on a range of HR topics, building capability among our people managers. This may include delivering targeted training on an ad hoc basis to support hot spot areas.Use a coaching approach to develop management capability and confidence in handling people matters.Support and influence local people strategies, workforce planning, and change initiatives.This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your HR career in a high-profile area of the Trust, working with senior stakeholders and directly influencing workforce outcomes.We are looking for a dedicated, experienced, and agile HR professional, who is keen to take their next step in their career. You must be passionate about providing people focused support to a range of stakeholders across operational teams. Be a collaborator, adaptable to the needs of the business and able to support in the creation and create and implementation of people plans that support the wider business strategy. To be successful you will need to be resilient and initiative-taking, you thrive on challenge, and you strive to make a positive difference in your workYou will have excellent communication skills and the ability to address complex and sensitive issues with staff at all levels. You will need to display tenacity and resilience and possess the ability to inspire confidence in the managers you support. You must be able to evidence 'hands on' experience within a HR setting operating in a complex and challenging employment environment. Ideally you will have a good working knowledge of the NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service. You will need to have experience of providing high quality advice on sickness absence, disciplinary processes, grievance, capability and dignity at work issues. Experience of managing change and advising on the implications of change is a must. You must have experience of analysing workforce data with the ability to identify trends and hot spots to inform interventions with the directorate management teams.Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sonie Purewal Job title: Deputy People Director Email address: sonie.purewal@nhs.netFor an informal discussion please contact: sonie.purewal@nhs.net

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