The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Senior People Advisor - Absence Management Specialist
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Job Overview
Are you a solutions-focused HR professional who is passionate about improving wellbeing and driving meaningful cultural change?
At SaTH, we are committed to creating a healthier, more engaged workforce. We are seeking an experienced Senior People Advisor – Absence Management Specialist to play a key role within our Estates, Facilities and MES services, leading a proactive and impactful approach to employee wellbeing attendance management.
This is a Band 6 (Subject to Agenda for Change Job Evaluation) role, full-time 37.5 hours per week, fixed Term for 6 Months initially (if successful will extend to 18 months).
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About The Role
This is a high-impact, operational and strategic role where you will take ownership of all aspects of sickness absence management, working directly with colleagues and managers to support attendance, wellbeing and performance.
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- Proactively manage sickness absence cases, maintaining regular and supportive contact with colleagues during periods of absence
- Facilitate early, safe returns to work, ensuring appropriate support plans and adjustments are in place
- Provide expert HR advice on complex absence cases, including long-term and frequent short-term absence
- Ensure robust and consistent application of Trust policies and procedures
- Ensure management of sickness absence cases is inclusive, compassionate, and kind
Beyond casework, you will have a key role in shaping and embedding a positive attendance culture across Facilities, moving from reactive management to early intervention and prevention. The postholder will be engaged in:
- Driving Culture Change
- Developing Managers & Processes
- Prevention & Partnership Working
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Our Poppy’s Promise Commitment
We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
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We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
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