Hr Advisor

We have an excellent opportunity to build on your HR experience and join a friendly established team providing a first-class HR service in a busy commercial environment.

Working within the HR Team, the role will provide responsive and customer focused HR advice and support to stakeholders across the company.  You should be keen to apply your employment law knowledge and be confident in advising managers on best practice and supporting them where necessary with recruitment, employee relations, employment law, reward and remuneration.

Duties include:

• Working closely with the HR Lead on various projects and HR strategy.
• Provide monthly stats on various elements of HR, e.g. turnover, starters/leavers/sickness as required.
• Advising on employee relations casework including performance improvement processes, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, retirement processes.
• Providing general HR advice to employees
• Support the NHS HR Lead in managing and supporting TUPE processes, grievance, disciplinary and capability investigations and hearings
• Assisting the wider HR team with support in busy periods as required.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Previous HR experience is essential and a high level of enthusiasm for working within HR.
• Experience of HR formal processes including disciplinaries, grievances, capabilities, sickness management
• Experience on advising managers on a broad range of HR topics
• A good understanding of employment law, and processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the confidence and ability to work with managers across all levels of the business
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• High level of attention to detail
• An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion
• Willingness to travel, which may include overnight stays on occasion, as and when required

Desirable:

• CIPD Qualification or working towards CIPD or a desire to do so
• HR experience within the healthcare sector
• Previous experience in Redundancies and TUPE processes
• Experience of using HR systems/ databases
• More advanced excel skills desirable

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.  We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of making people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.  To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.

We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

• Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
• Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
• Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
• Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
• Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
• Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
• The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.

VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. 

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. 

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

Vita Health Group