HR Support Officer (Business Partnering)

Job summary

HR Career Opportunity: Join Our Business Partnering Team!

Are you ready to help shape healthcare’s future through a meaningful HR role?

We’re looking for an HR Support Officer to join our team. You will support the team by providing both administrative and advisory support to help enhance HR functions and our wider organisational needs.

You’ll help align HR services with our Trust’s goals: delivering outstanding patient care, promoting a positive workplace, and advancing child health.

Why Join Us?

You will have the chance to work with both our HR Business Partnering and Medical HR teams, giving you valuable experience and insights into NHS HR practices that enhance patient care and support a positive workplace.

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If you’re ready to bring your expertise to a purpose-driven operational HR role, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Reporting into the HR Business Partnering team, responsibilities will include:

• Be a contact for first-line HR queries, offering advice to colleagues and managers on policies and employment matters including early stage attendance management, grievance, disciplinary, flexible working and Agenda for Change terms and conditions ensuring early resolution and consistency of practice
• Provide direct administrative support to the Business Partnering team, including minute taking at employee relations meetings, collating investigations and panel packs, and diary management.
• Ensure a smooth onboarding experience for visitors and medical colleagues joining us for work placements and honorary contracts, including completing compliance checks
• Help implement HR policies, compliance, and change, assisting in the delivery and identification of HR projects.
• Maintain digital systems and help implement improved processes

About us

At Sheffield Children’s, our purpose is clear: to provide healthier futures for children and young people. Our three strategic aims are:

1. Outstanding Patient Care
2. Brilliant Place to work
3. Leaders in Children’s Health

We work with local, regional, and national partners to provide physical and mental healthcare across acute and community settings. Many of our clinicians are amongst the best in their field, recognised nationally and internationally for their expertise.

As well as having enormous pride in what we do, we are a friendly, welcoming, and motivated NHS Trust who are guided by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our nearly 4000 colleagues live these values, ensuring kind and compassionate care that makes patients and their families feel safe and at home.

As we approach our 150th anniversary in 2026, we remain committed to enhancing our reputation in children’s health leadership, improving the experiences of both patient and colleagues, and focusing on our communities and population health.

Sheffield Children’s provides great benefits to support your wellbeing, with excellent annual leave and pension schemes, health programmes, and exclusive discounts–helping you succeed at work and beyond.

Date posted

20 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

425-24-6791526

Job locations

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

100 Napier Street

Sheffield

S11 8HD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on the main responsibilities for this post, please refer to the job description and person specification.

Diversity Statement

At Sheffield Childrens, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and supports everyones success. We prioritise Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in our recruitment practices, creating a welcoming space for people of all backgrounds, including ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ members.

Recognising that inclusivity is an ongoing effort, we review our processes and welcome feedback to enhance our practices. A diverse team strengthens our organisation and the quality of care we deliver. For ideas on how we can improve, please contact our Recruitment Manager at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net. Together, were building a workplace where everyone belongs.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• NVQ 4 in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification
• Studying or committed to/willing to work towards CIPD level 5

Experience

Essential

• Recent experience of working in a front facing HR role
• Routine HR casework
• Some experience of complex case work
• Application of HR policies, processes and employment legislation
• Working to achievement of agreed KPIs
• Examples of working in partnership with Staff side and establishing productive and effective working relationships

Desirable

• NHS terms and conditions
• Worked in NHS or similar public sector organisation

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of NHS
• Knowledge of professional policies and procedures
• Database, spreadsheet and management information

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Customer focused – Builds and develops internal and external stakeholder relationships and exceeds expectations
• Business aware – can demonstrate a clear understanding of business/Trust requirements
• Team player – used to working in a team and recognises value of individual and team contribution
• Communication – communicates in a clear and concise manner in the language of the audience and check that communicated messages have been received and understood
• Knowledge sharing – Seeks, applies and shares knowledge both internally and externally by making use of the knowledge and experience of other team members and colleagues
• Personal development – Manages personal and professional development, seeks opportunities for further development

Demonstrates Trust Values

Essential

• Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

100 Napier Street

Sheffield

S11 8HD

Employer’s website

https://www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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