Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
HR Manager
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Are you an experienced HR professional who is passionate about supporting people, developing teams and making a positive difference across healthcare services?
We are looking for an HR Manager to join our Employee Relations team and play a key role in delivering an outstanding people service across Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of HR Advisors and HR Officers, providing expert employee relations advice while helping managers create positive, inclusive and high-performing workplaces.
You'll be a trusted partner to leaders across the organisation, supporting complex employee relations matters, driving service improvements and helping us achieve our workforce ambitions. Alongside managing your own casework, you will coach and develop others, ensuring our advice is consistent, compassionate and legally compliant.
If you have strong employee relations expertise, excellent communication skills and a commitment to delivering high-quality people services, we'd love to hear from you. In return, you'll join a supportive and forward-thinking workforce team where your expertise will help shape the experience of colleagues delivering excellent care at the heart of the community.
Responsibilities
As HR Manager, you will provide day-to-day leadership to our Employee Relations team, ensuring managers and staff receive professional, responsive and solutions-focused HR support. You'll oversee team caseloads, provide coaching and guidance, and act as an escalation point for complex and sensitive employee relations matters.
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You will manage a portfolio of complex cases across areas such as attendance management, capability, disciplinary, grievance and organisational change, ensuring fair and consistent outcomes that reflect employment legislation, NHS terms and conditions and Trust policies.
Requirements
We're looking for someone with significant experience in employee relations, strong leadership skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. You'll be confident influencing decision-making, analysing workforce information, identifying risk and supporting managers to develop their people management capability.
Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to compassionate leadership, inclusion and continuous improvement, helping us deliver a high-quality workforce service that supports colleagues to provide excellent care for our communities.
About Us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
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Why Work for Us?
- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values - Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence - guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Muffy Wesley
- Job title: Operational Manager - HR
- Email address: muffywesley@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07780 605162
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