HR Advisor - Canterbury, United Kingdom - Pilgrims Hospices

Pilgrims Hospices

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Canterbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a broad and interesting role?

The Role

As HR Advisor you will partner with the non-clinical areas and business leads of our charity to support the delivery of our income generation, central services and domestic and catering activities.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Being responsible for a wide range of business areas providing dedicated, expert advice in relation to employee relations, absence and performance management and ensuring compliance with basic employment legislation and organisational policy.
Acting as the first point of contact for managers within their dedicated business areas, including providing generalist HR advice.
Providing advice to managers in relation to complex workforce matters and supporting performance management.
Delivering training and coaching in HR practice, developing skills and management capability, ensuring managers are equipped with the appropriate knowledge and skills to succeed.
Working in partnership with management to develop services and drive forward organisational strategy, delivering a tangible benefit to our service users.

The post holder must ensure that services are provided to a high standard, in line with mandatory and best practice guidelines.

For a more extensive list of responsibilities, please refer to the HR Advisor Job Description.

About You
To be successful in this role you should have:

Experience of being responsible for day-to-day HR policy and practices across a large team(s).
Extensive experience of different Employee Relations issues in the workplace, with the ability to manage difficult conversations and complicated processes.
Experience of coaching others and facilitating basic HR training sessions with staff.
Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills.
A full clean driving licence, with a willingness to provide support to other locations and access to your own transport.

Benefits

As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.

Our hospices offer:

26 days annual leave,
plus all bank and public holidays.
Flexible/hybrid working arrangements and a great worklife balance with realistic working hours.
Free onsite parking.
Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card Membership Scheme.
Standard Life Workplace Pension. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme.
Subsidised meals, currently £1.65 per meal.
Access to Dover Counselling Services.
Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside passionate people.
Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning.

About Us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families - both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision
- "Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life"._

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims.

Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be.

They form our 'CODE', which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

How to apply
To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached.

Salary:
£29,000.00-£31,000.00 per year

Benefits: