Senior HR Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Senior HR Advisor to join the People team at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The role involves working closely with various services as a business partnering function, supporting HR Business Partners in delivering customer-focused HR services. You will be the first point of contact for managers and staff regarding queries and concerns, providing advice on employee relations processes in line with policy and case law. The position also includes specific projects to develop skills and abilities within the advisory role.
Key responsibilities
- Ensure the provision of professional, customer-focussed HR advice, coaching and solutions to designated Directorate/Services.
- Ensure Corporate Trust People policies and procedures are translated and applied locally within operating frameworks.
- Work in partnership with managers to develop and deliver an effective employee relations service.
- Support the management and co-ordination of employee relations casework, ensuring consistency and efficiency in accordance with policies, legislation, and best practice.
Essential criteria
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
- CIPD or equivalent
- Generalist HR experience demonstrating competence across a range of HR
- Track record of providing HR advice to services and managers in a multidisciplinary team environment
- Experience of advising managers on employee relations matters eg: disciplinary, grievance, sickness, capability including complex cases with minimal supervision
- Experience of working as an HR Advisor in a large complex organisation with union recognition
- Experience of supporting change management
- Experience of developing through coaching/training on a range of People policies
- Current knowledge of employment legislation, case law and good HR practice
- Understanding of key current issues in human resources and the ability to interpret and apply the knowledge to People strategies
- Ability to self manage and prioritise conflicting demands
- Proven effective problem solving ability
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels, along with interpersonal and collaboration skills
- To be impartial when providing clear and concise written and verbal communication to staff members at all levels
- Have empathy when receiving or providing sensitive, personal, distressing and confidential information.
- Be tactful, persuasive and able to influence when handling complex situations
- Ability to use Microsoft office and input and manipulate data
- Leadership - fostering powerful and productive working relationships internally and externally. Be able to motivate and enthuse others
- Commitment to helping to provide equitable services for all health service users and NHS staff
- Commitment to the principles of lifelong learning and continuous professional development
- Calm, empathetic and logical when faced with urgent and stressful situations
- Proven ability to effectively manage a range of situations that may evoke a strong emotional reaction
- Ability to work with unpredictable situations and under pressure and to tight deadlines with frequent interruptions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with performance metrics/data to guide and direct strategy
- Experience of working at HR Advisor level in the NHS
- Understanding of NHS People Strategy
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Senior HR Advisor
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
Senior HR Advisor
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior HR Advisor to join the People team at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the heart of London.
St Bartholomew's Hospital is the oldest in the country is home to Barts Heart Centre, the largest specialist cardiac Centre in the UK as well as the St Barts Cancer Centre, a leading treatment Centre.
At St Bartholomew's Hospital, we are known for our excellence and innovation and we want the People team to follow this lead. This excellence was recognized in the latest Care Quality Commission inspection, where the strong and supportive leadership was rated as Outstanding. Every single service was rated as Good, with inspectors praising the strong medical and nursing leadership, and the "positive and collaborative" culture.
As a business partnering function, you will work closely with all services on the site including cancer, cardiac, respiratory, fertility and endocrine. You will support the HR Business Partners in delivering a customer focused service and will be the first point of contact for managers and staff with queries and concerns. You should have a good knowledge of employee relations processes - delivering advice to managers with confidence in line with policy and case law. You will also be given specif
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