Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
HR Advisor
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About the Role
We are seeking an HR Advisor to join our team following an internal promotion. The primary purpose of this role is to provide expert HR advice and support to managers across the organisation, helping to deliver high-quality healthcare services.
We are looking for someone who can offer a professional and responsive HR Advisory service, demonstrating the Trust’s values while contributing to the People & OD Directorate’s objectives.
Responsibilities
- Develop strong working relationships, enabling managers to implement effective people management practices.
- Contribute to policy development and a range of HR initiatives as part of the wider HR team.
Role Details
This role will mainly support teams across the Pennine area through a hybrid working model, combining home working with attendance at key Trust sites. You will also provide support across Lancashire and South Cumbria as required, working within a flexible, collaborative, and supportive team.
In this role, you will be a key contact for managers, using a coaching approach to support them in managing a broad range of employee relations and advisory matters, including disciplinary issues, conflict resolution, sickness absence, organisational change, and performance management.
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You will provide practical, solutions-focused guidance, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, NHS Terms and Conditions, and Trust policies. Support will be delivered through MS Teams, email, and telephone, with face-to-face meetings where appropriate. There will also be opportunities to contribute to proactive HR initiatives, including training delivery and policy development.
Requirements
- Building strong relationships within your designated areas will be essential, alongside being responsive, well organised, and confident in maintaining HR systems.
- You will bring HR advisory experience and be CIPD qualified, or working towards qualification.
- NHS experience would be beneficial but is not essential.
Diversity and Inclusion
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
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Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
Flexible Working
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Hannah Crawford
- Job title: HR Business Partner
- Email address: hannah.crawford@lscft.nhs.uk
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