Job summary
Employer heading
Senior HR Advisor - Lincolnshire Division
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior HR Advisor to join our busy HR Team covering our Lincolnshire Division on a permanent basis. The role is hybrid with home and office based commitment with some requirement to travel to various sites across Lincolnshire and occasionally other East Midlands locations as required. This will be once or twice per week on average, depending on the needs of the business.
The post holder will be at the forefront of providing a comprehensive and professional human resources service to the managers and employees of the Trust, therefore the ability to build good working relationships is pivotal. Through excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills you will support and advise management on a variety of HR issues at an operational level ensuring that decision making is consistent with current employment legislation and good employment practice.
The role requires strong organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive change.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within the HR environment.
The successful candidate will be educated to, or working towards post graduate level, or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience in HR.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the development of key policies and procedures and the policy creation and review process. You will also complete and lead on project work that will ensure the effective use of human resources to achieve the Trusts service objectives in line with EMAS values. It is expected that the post holder will make a significant contribution across the wider HR agenda. You will also lead on complex Employment Relations matters that arise within division, with a focus on early resolution and Just Culture principles.
The main focus on the role is to work closely with the HR Business Partner, Assistant HR Business Partner, senior and local management teams for Lincolnshire, to support the delivery of strategic objectives and provide advice, support and guidance on policy at the local level.
Working for our organisation
EMAS has five values which underpins everything we do; how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. Our values reflect our commitment to encouraging innovation, team and partnership working, and looking outwards as well as inwards.
By living these values and supporting others to do the same, we will help to make sure that EMAS is an organisation we can all be proud of.
- Respect: Respect for our patients and each other
- Integrity: Acting with integrity by doing the right thing for the right reasons
- Contribution: Respecting and valuing everyone's contribution, and encouraging innovation
- Teamwork: Working together, supporting each other, and collaborating with other organisations
- Compassion: ensuring compassion is central to the care we provide and the way we treat each other
There are many qualities you will need to make a success of being a member of the EMAS team. Some you will learn as your career develops; others are personal skills:
- A willingness to work as a member of a team
- Good communication skills
- Good levels of fitness and manual-handling skills (for some roles)
- Excellent driving skills (for some roles)
- Initiative
- Decision-making skills
- A calm manner even in the most challenging situations
- A willingness to learn and further develop your skills
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be at the forefront of providing a comprehensive and professional human resources service to the managers and employees of the Trust, therefore the ability to build good working relationships is pivotal.
Through excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills you will support and advise management on a variety of HR issues at an operational level ensuring that decision making is consistent with current employment legislation and good employment practice.
You will be responsible for the development of key policies and procedures and the policy creation and review process. You will also complete project work that will ensure the effective use of human resources to achieve the Trusts service objectives in line with EMAS values. It is expected that the post holder will make a significant contribution across the wider HR agenda.
Please see attached further information in the job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to or working towards post graduate level or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of operating in an operational HR environment at a senior level
- Experience of managing complex employee relations Cases
- Experience of working in partnership with Trade Unions or staffing representatives
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven project management skills
- Able to deliver well written reports, and engaging and informative presentations.
- Experience of managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines
Essential
Essential criteria
- Full Driving Licence
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kevin Thorne
- Job title
- Senior HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07813003006
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