Senior Employee Relations Advisor | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

We currently have a very interesting opportunity for a Senior Employee Relations Advisor in the North Mid Employee Relations team, to provide comprehensive support on employee relations for the clinical and non clinical teams. You should possess extensive experience in progressing disciplinary, sickness and other employee relations case work to a high standard, in a timely manner and where possible driving a just and learning culture, avoiding overly punitive formal processes.

The role includes involvement in the design and delivery of training and development interventions in conjunction with other HR&OD colleagues to help increase management capability within the Divisions and supporting strategies to improve performance where needed.

The role is responsible for ensuring professional customer focused HR advice and coaching support is provided and will support on designated Trust-wide HR developments as agreed with the Employee Relations Manager, HR Business Partners and the Deputy Director of HR (Operations).

The post holder must always act in a manner that supports the Trust's values and promotes equality and diversity.

To actively contribute and support the Employee Relations team in the following:

To work in the ER team to provide specialist employee relations advice within agreed HR policies and procedures, including managing attendance, disciplinary, grievance and bullying & harassment;

To provide a professional, effective, business focused HR service by providing responsive and effective employee relations advice and guidance to managers, which supports the operational and strategic business plans of the Trust;

To apply creative solutions to people management issues to increase workforce productivity and performance to enhance patient care and safety.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Provide a proactive and supportive advisory service to line managers and staff, regarding all HR related issues including Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental terms and conditions and Trust policies and procedures.

In conjunction with investigating officer's, to project manage employee investigations and advise managers in relation to preparation of management reports and documentation for presentation at formal meetings and hearings.

Provide high quality advice and guidance directly to managers to facilitate the early resolution of difficult, complex or sensitive employee relations issues, ensuring that the risks associated with such cases are effectively managed.