HR Advisor

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

HELP US CARE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CARE.

We are happy to be offering a Fixed Term Contract opportunity to join our supportive HR team until September 2025. This is an ideal opportunity for someone keen to develop their HR career and who is interested in providing excellent HR advice to managers and staff. We will support professional studies to help build and develop your career.
Working as an HR Advisor, supported by our experienced HR Team, we are looking for energised individuals who will be excited to join us. The focus of these roles will be to have an immediate and positive impact in our HR support and advice within our Trust, being visible and accessible as a key member of the local teams, balanced with flexible hybrid working.
This role is based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds.

INTERESTED?

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

We are looking for someone with good overall Employee Relations knowledge and proven experience of focusing on putting people before process.
We want someone who can gather and understand intelligence, specifically focusing on absence and performance management, as well as get involved in wider HR related project work to increase your HR Generalist knowledge, and to help coach our leaders in supporting our staff. Communication is key. We are looking for someone who can communicate professionally with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome.
However most importantly and in keeping with our trust values, we are looking for someone who has exceptional people and influencing skills as this role requires you to convey difficult decisions whilst having to maintain professional relationships.