Spire Healthcare
People Advisor
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Spire Healthcare Overview
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales, and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case, and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs, and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal, and dermatological services.
Our Purpose
Our People Team is committed to delivering Spire’s purpose – making a positive difference to people’s lives through outstanding personalized care.
Role Overview
As a People Advisor, you will provide expert HR advice and guidance to Spire colleagues and managers within the Patient Support Centre to enable everyone to deliver our Purpose on a daily basis.
You will need to build effective relationships at all levels with multiple stakeholders. It’s a varied and busy hands-on role where you will be expected to manage multiple priorities so organization and delivering on your promises is key.
Key Responsibilities
- Driving effective workforce planning through regular workforce discussions with the hospital Senior Management Team.
- Being an advocate of wellbeing for the hospital and Spire, promoting all relevant tools, support mechanisms, and communication channels on a regular basis.
- Actively managing absence within the hospital to reduce short-term absence and manage effectively long-term absence. Supporting managers in managing absent colleagues, ensuring the colleague feels supported while managing the departmental resource appropriately.
- Providing high-quality consistent HR advice in line with Spire policy, procedure, and best practice.
- Supporting managers in performance management processes, disciplinary, grievance issues, attendance matters, and change management. Attending where required as HR support for the manager, in such meetings and discussions.
- Ensuring all employee relations issues are managed in a timely manner, prioritizing workload. As well as making sure that diversity and equality, fairness, and consistency are applied to all discussions, decisions with managers and colleagues, while balancing the needs of the business.
- Developing manager capability to implement and manage people policies and procedures.
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Key Requirements
- Level 5 CIPD Qualification or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience as a People/HR Advisor or in another HR-based role.
- Knowledge of HR functions and systems.
- An understanding of employment laws and disciplinary/grievance procedures.
- Ability to identify and implement business-focused solutions.
- Aptitude for problem-solving and decision-making, alongside managing complex queries.
- Capability to build strong relationships.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Ability to manage confidential information appropriately.
- High personal standards and quality of work output with outstanding organizational and time-management abilities.
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants.
We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
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