We are pleased to be recruiting a People Consultant to provide focused, professional HR support across the Trust, in delivering Mental Health and Community Healthcare services across Northamptonshire. This role will provide a wide range of opportunities to independently manage change and service transformation through delivering a customer focused HR service and some complex employee relations cases. Working as a people consultant you will deliver timely and professional advice and expertise to enhance and develop the workforce, as our people are at the core of being a leading provider of outstanding, compassionate care.

In return you will benefit from working for an organisation who values you for your individuality, who supports your health and wellbeing and blend a generous reward package with a supportive work life balance.

As a valued member of our friendly, supportive and professional team you will utilise your existing HR skills and knowledge to fulfil a varied role where every day is different, interesting and rewarding.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the People Team. The successful candidate will need to quickly build relationships through the Trust, understand the people needs of the services and work in partnership to deliver HR solutions. The People Consultant will offer advice to managers and staff members. The People Consultant will lead avariety of project areas, service improvements and hold an employee relations caseload ensuring pragmatic solutions are reached for HR issues.

We are looking for candidates who ideally have experience of working in the NHS or a similar setting, have a CIPD qualification or are working towards this, and experience of delivering a HR service and managing complex cases. Candidates will need to be great communicators, have a passion for people management and engagement and have the ability to balance priorities and workload to meet the needs of a busy service.

The HR team are based at St Mary's Hospital, Kettering and work in a hybrid flexible way predominately working from home, delivering timely advice utilising video conferencing and appropriate technology in order to fulfil the role requirements.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• CIPD postgraduate

Experience

Essential

• Experience in full range of case activity

Desirable

• Experience of NHS or equivalent
• Experience of unionised environment

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

St Mary's Hospital

Kettering

NN15 7PW

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