HR Advisor - Peterborough
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 26.5
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an HR Advisor to join the team on a fixed-term contract or secondment for 26.5 hours per week. The successful candidate will provide expert support and guidance on employee relations processes, ensuring timely, just, and compliant resolutions. They will advise managers on HR issues, support organisational change, and contribute to workforce initiatives. The role involves working across multiple sites, including Peterborough City Hospital, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, and Stamford Hospital, with hybrid working arrangements.
Essential criteria
- CIPD level 5 or above or equivalent qualification or experience
- Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrates sound and up to date knowledge of UK employment law
- Understands the importance of confidentiality, data protection and information governance
- Good understanding of HR best practice
- Able to use HR databases and information systems
- Good analytical skills with the ability to provide excellent management information as required
- Proficient in the use of IT packages including Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including verbal reasoning, presentation skills, influencing & persuasion skills.
- Able to analyse, review and write complex case reports
- Demonstrates the abilities necessary to develop strong working relationships, be an effective team member as well as the ability to work on own initiative
- Good organisation skills and planning skills
- Evidence of using initiative and "thinking outside the box
Desirable criteria
- Good working knowledge of NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions of employment
- Knowledge of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) System
- Previous experience of working in a HR Advisory role
- Experience of advising managers on how to deal with the full range of complex employee relations, e.g. grievance, sickness, performance management, disciplinary, flexible working requests etc.
- Demonstrable experience of managing a large ER caseload in a pressurised environment
- Previous experience of interpreting terms and conditions of employment
- Experience of the design, delivery and presentation of HR training programmes for managers
- Experience of communicating and providing advice effectively to colleagues and managers at all levels
- Relevant Sector Experience
- Previous experience of policy review, development and implementation
- Experience of advising managers on organisational change issues
- CIPD level 5 or above or equivalent qualification or experience
- Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrates sound and up to date knowledge of UK employment law
- Understands the importance of confidentiality, data protection and information governance
- Good understanding of HR best practice
- Able to use HR databases and information systems
- Good analytical skills with the ability to provide excellent management information as required
- Proficient in the use of IT packages including Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including verbal reasoning, presentation skills, influencing & persuasion skills.
- Able to analyse, review and write complex case reports
- Demonstrates the abilities necessary to develop strong working relationships, be an effective team member as well as the ability to work on own initiative
- Good organisation skills and planning skills
- Evidence of using initiative and "thinking outside the box
- Good working knowledge of NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions of employment
- Knowledge of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) System
- Previous experience of working in a HR Advisory role
- Experience of advising managers on how to deal with the full range of complex employee relations, e.g. grievance, sickness, performance management, disciplinary, flexible working requests etc.
- Demonstrable experience of managing a large ER caseload in a pressurised environment
- Previous experience of interpreting terms and conditions of employment
- Experience of the design, delivery and presentation of HR training programmes for managers
- Experience of communicating and providing advice effectively to colleagues and managers at all levels
- Relevant Sector Experience
- Previous experience of policy review, development and implementation
- Experience of advising managers on organisational change issues
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.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 4d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
HR Advisor - Peterborough
The closing date is 10 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for applications from HR Professionals to join our team on a fixed term contract or secondment for 26.5 hours per week. You will be able to confidently provide expert support and guidance to employee relations processes within the Trust, supporting managers, staff and colleagues to deliver timely, just and compliant resolutions of cases. We work within a restorative, just and learning culture, across all our HR practices and processes.We are innovative and embrace change and are in the process of introducing an HR solution called EVA to improve the service we provide to stakeholders and colleagues within the Trust. We routinely capture data and you will be expected to analyse and identify trends and work with the Business Partner team to identify solutions. We are looking for a candidate who has experience of working within a unionised, high-volume environment managing a complex ER caseload. Experience of working within the NHS would be an advantage although not essential.
This role is working in between all sites including Peterborough City Hospital with the requirement to travel to our sites including Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Stamford Hospital. We operate a hybrid working arrangement and provide cover on all sites on a rotational b
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