Human Resources Advisor | HR | Spire Thames Valley | Full Time | Permanent | Slough
Spire Thames Valley Hospital is looking for a full time HR Advisor
Job Purpose:
The role of the HR Advisor is to support and guide the hospital, providing expert HR advice, coaching and mentoring to Spire colleagues and line managers to enable everyone to deliver our Spire Purpose on a daily basis.
The role is the focal point for employee related activities throughout the lifecycle, from driving recruitment, co-ordinating training and development, processing changes and employee relations.
Duties and responsibilities;
Colleague Relations and People Matters
- Be the focal point for all ER matters for the Hospitals and provide high quality consistent HR advice in line with Spire policy, procedure, and best practice.
- Signpost colleagues and managers appropriately to other support mechanisms, such as HR Shared Services, EAP providers, Occupational Health, or online resources.
- Support Managers in performance management processes, disciplinary, grievance issues and attendance matters. Attend, if necessary, as HR support for the manager, in such meetings and discussions.
- Ensure all employee relations issues are managed in a timely manner, prioritising workload and multiple cases, accordingly, working closely with the People Business Partner and Head of ER where appropriate.
Policies and Legislation
- Manage the adherence to all HR policies and procedures, coaching, advising, and training where required to ensure maximum understanding and implementation across the business.
Communication & Engagement
- Co-ordinate internal communications to the workforce and leaders, owning the HR calendar of requirements (colleague survey, performance review, salary review, benefits renewal etc), ensuring adequate preparation and meeting payroll and HR timescales
Diversity and Equality
- Ensure that diversity and equality, fairness and consistency is applied to all discussions, decisions with managers and colleagues, whilst balancing the needs of the business.
Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.
Who we're looking for:
- Minimum of a level 5 Foundation CIPD qualification or equivalent experience
- Proven experience as HR Advisor or another equivalent HR role
- Knowledge of HR functions and systems (pay & benefits, recruitment, training & development etc.).
- Understanding of relevant employment laws and their application
- Experience of providing remote guidance to managers on people matters.
- Ability to identify and implement business focused solutions. Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude.
- Ability to build strong relationships at all levels.
- Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Experience of managing complex ER casework
- IT literate and a competent user of the MS Office suite of products.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications