Band 6 Senior People Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity for a Band 6 Senior People Advisor within the Heartlands People Team. The role involves providing responsive, values-led people support to operational and clinical leaders, focusing on employee relations, workforce issues, and cultural matters. You will build trusted relationships and contribute to staff experience in a busy acute hospital environment. The position offers development and exposure within a large People function.
Essential criteria
- \*Level 5 CIPD or equivalent degree level qualification supplemented by qualification and/or experience at post graduate diploma/ equivalent experience in a HR related field.
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Achieved or working towards Level 7 CIPD or post graduate diploma in Human Resources Management
- Experience of recent generalist HR experience in a large, complex organisation, including complex HR investigations, absence and capability management
- Working in partnership with Trade unions.
- Experience of developing and delivering effective people management training
- Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports.
- Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice
- Evidence of improving working practices
- Additional Criteria
- Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
- Proactive and self-motivated.
- Ability to work across all Trust sites.
- \*Level 5 CIPD or equivalent degree level qualification supplemented by qualification and/or experience at post graduate diploma/ equivalent experience in a HR related field.
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
- Achieved or working towards Level 7 CIPD or post graduate diploma in Human Resources Management
- Experience of recent generalist HR experience in a large, complex organisation, including complex HR investigations, absence and capability management
- Working in partnership with Trade unions.
- Experience of developing and delivering effective people management training
- Experience of preparing, analysing and presenting reports.
- Up to date and thorough working knowledge of Employment Law and Human Resource Best Practice
- Evidence of improving working practices
- Additional Criteria
- Flexible approach to work, willing to adapt to regularly changing situations.
- Proactive and self-motivated.
- Ability to work across all Trust sites.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Following the successful appointment to a number of our Trust wide vacancies, we are now recruiting to the remaining Band 6 Senior People Advisor opportunity within our Heartlands People Team.
Summer 26 marked an important point for our People Directorate and for our Site based team. After a period of real change and challenge, our teams are coming together with purpose, and this role offers the chance to put the heart in Heartlands by supporting the colleagues and services that sit at the centre of patient care for our communities.
This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity, offering the chance to step quickly into a high-impact role and provide immediate support to a busy acute hospital team. It is designed to maintain continuity and momentum while also offering valuable development, visibility and exposure within a large and evolving People function where progression is actively supported.
Led by our Senior People Partners, Eugene Komeng and Sukhman Mander, the team works closely with operational and clinical leaders across Heartlands to provide responsive, values-led people support, helping to put the heart in Heartlands for our colleagues and services.
Heartlands is a busy, complex and deeply important part of UHB. This role will suit someone who wants to be close to operational services, build trusted relationships with clinical and non-clinical leaders, a
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