HR Advisor

HR Advisor
12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Derby, DE24
£28,407 per annum
37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
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DHU Healthcare is a ‘not-for-profit’ community interest company providing a diverse range of services to the NHS frontline, including urgent and emergency care, primary care, out of hours services and NHS111. We care for patients across the West and East Midlands – a population totaling around 14 million. As a socially conscious organisation, we provide compassionate, high-quality care to our patients and offer a supportive work environment to our 2,500 DHU employees. If you would like to find out more about us, you can visit our website at Our profile: DHU Healthcare.
We are always:
Compassionate
– we show kindness, consideration and understanding in everything we do – and demonstrate our caring nature to our patient, people, and communities.
Accomplished
– we are available day and night – a response, adaptable, professional NHS partner, providing the best advice, care, and treatment for every individual.
Respectful
– we recognise the value that individual and team difference bring – welcoming views, listening, being honest, and learning from others’ experiences.
Encouraging
– we believe everyone matters, so we inspire confidence in other – promoting ‘speaking up,’ fostering career-long learning and development, and supporting improvement ideas.
Purpose of the Role
The post holder will support the HR Partners in delivering a comprehensive and professional People & Culture service to all customers. They will provide proactive, professional, and consistent employee relations advice and guidance, maintain employee records for all employee relations mattes and provide expert advice and guidance for key employee relations projects such as TUPE, MOC’s, and audits.
Specific duties:
Responsible for processing all monthly payroll items for all employees in line with policy and procedure; meeting payroll deadlines.
Reporting line for HR Administration staff (Direct Reports).
Building and maintaining good working relationships with all customers; internal and external with the confidence and ability to challenge professionally, if required.
Providing HR support and guidance to managers and staff with regards to all employee relations matters, in line with DHU policies and procedures, and best practice; referring to HRBP when the need arises.
Supporting HR Partner’s effectively and efficiently to deliver People & Culture projects with a flexible approach, as and when the need arises.
Supporting HR and operations with audit preparation and actions.
Generating consistent and professional correspondence in line with policies, procedures, and best practice.
Responsible for maintaining HR Mailbox and taking employee relations call, resolving day to day HR queries, in line with policy, procedure, contractual terms and best practice; ensuring all queries are responded to expediently and escalated where required.
Supporting facilitation in the development of line managers, to increase their people and management skills in line with policy, procedure, and best practice.
Maintaining employee files in line with best practice, GDPR, CQC and local compliance requirements.
Maintenance of HRIS, ensuring accurate capture and analysis of data.
Maintenance of the employee relations tracker with high attention to detail and accuracy at the forefront.
Supporting with any other People & Culture activities when the need arises.
Essential Skills:
A good general standard of education, professional degree level
A relevant professional HR qualification (CIPD level 5, or working towards level 5)
IT proficiency in Word, Excel, and Outlook
Minimum of 1 years’ experience in all Employee Relations matters
Experience of updating and maintaining a HRIS
Experience in working with operational teams.
Experience in managing conflicting priorities and workloads.
Travel to other sites may be required, across DHU sites.
Weekend working within rota across Advisor team members.
Attendance at evening/weekend meetings when the need arises.
Desirable Skills:
Experience of line management.
Previous HR experience within the health care sector.
In return, we can offer:
Joining DHU means you will receive some great benefits. This will include access to the NHS pension scheme – alongside a generous annual leave allowance that grows with your length of service or recognises your existing NHS commitment. We provide an incremental sick pay scheme and family friendly policies like maternity and paternity pay that match the NHS offer, alongside working enhancements including an additional 30 - 45% of annual salary for unsociable hours benefit (earning potential will vary on shift days / times). We will also support your health and wellbeing - with complementary Westfield Health Insurance membership which covers basic costs like your dental care, glasses, physiotherapy, chiropody and many more.
At DHU Healthcare, we are committed to fostering an environment where Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and a strong sense of Belonging are not only celebrated but actively promoted. We believe that every individual, regardless of their background, deserves the right to access quality healthcare services and to be treated with respect and dignity. Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is at the heart of everything we do, from patient care to our organisational culture.