HR Advisor - Band 5

Job summary

At Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG), our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a HR Advisor, you'll be much more than an HR practitioner. You'll be a trusted advisor, coach and problem solver, helping leaders create positive workplace experiences that ultimately support the delivery of excellent patient care.

This is an exciting development opportunity for someone looking to build a career in HR. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of complex employee relations matters, organisational change programmes, workforce planning initiatives, wellbeing projects, and people transformation work. Working alongside experienced HR Business Partners and HR Managers, you'll develop the confidence, skills and expertise needed to become a highly effective HR professional.

If you're passionate about people, enjoy influencing decisions, thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to make a genuine difference to staff and services across Lincolnshire, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You'll provide professional HR advice and support across a range of workforce matters including employee relations, attendance management, organisational change and workforce planning. Working in partnership with managers, staff and Trade Union representatives, you'll help deliver people-focused solutions that support staff wellbeing, organisational performance and excellent patient care.

Having recently launched our Work Well Plan, our aim is to support, develop and keep brilliant people. From someone's first day with us, right through their career, we want people to have the support, opportunities and working environment they need to feel well, grow and thrive.

As part of our HR team, you'll help deliver the Work Well Plan by supporting managers and staff to build healthy, inclusive and high-performing workplaces where everyone can flourish.

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

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