Absence and Wellbeing Senior Advisor
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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you a dedicated, knowledgeable, tenacious HR Professional with experience managing Employee Relations cases, in particular sickness and absence? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference on an interim basis until the 31st March 2025? If so, then this fantastic opportunity may be for you. This role has become available on a fixed term basis due to the substantive post holder being successful in securing a promotion as a development opportunity. This is a great opportunity for an HR professional to put their employee relations skills to the test as we improve absence and support wellbeing.
In the role of Absence and Wellbeing Senior Advisor you will work alongside a portfolio of specialist directorates within the Surgery and Cancer Division providing expert HR advice. You will work alongside specialist teams such as central investigation, recruitment and workforce information to ensure the best support is available to our colleagues.
Depending on experience, this role will be offered as either a band 6 or band 7 and comes with some scope to expand your future business partnering skills if of interest.
Main duties of the job
In addition to being the first point of contact for all HR queries for the directorate teams you will play an active part in reducing formal HR cases and improve all workforce metrics with a particular focus on improving absence. You will deliver this by providing high quality HR advice and leading wellbeing interventions to achieve:
• Efficient use of Occupational Health expertise through quality management referrals
• Skilled and confident managers who understand their role in managing complex health and wellbeing cases with a particular focus on sickness absence, preventing work place stress; managing stress related absence and employees with mental health conditions.
• Early, informal resolution of workplace issues wherever possible, working with the Resolution Specialist to triage and resolve these.
• Reduction in average time taken to resolve employee relations casework.
• Effective and efficient systems, policies and practices that support our managers with resolving employee relations matters.
• A suite of high quality, expert advice in managing employee relations casework including delivering training and online advice and tools for managers.
• Identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement in the health and wellbeing of our workforce.
• Provision of expert coaching, development and support to managers and shared learning to fellow HR colleagues
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with ability to work with all levels of staff
- Experience of employee relations case management, especially managing sickness cases and leading on wellbeing interventions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading and embedding wellbeing interventions
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Proven employee relations experience, and experience of dealing with complex and challenging cases
- Development and delivery of HR related training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of a large, highly complex organisation
- NHS experience
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Developed knowledge across a wide range of workforce procedures and practices
- Up to date knowledge of employment law and demonstrable experience of interpreting and applying terms and conditions of an organisation
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).
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Documents to download
- Job description (PDF, 520.1KB)
- Functional requirements (PDF, 272.6KB)
- Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)