Associate HR Business Partner | East of England Ambulance Service Trust
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Basildon, Southend, CM1 7FJ |
| Company: | East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6243945/247-SS-AHRBP-0424 |
Summary
The Associate HR People Partner (HBPP) will report to the HR People Partner and be embedded in either a Trust business unit, operational locality or specialist service area to provide specialist support advice and guidance to the local management team. The Associate HRPP will act as an interface between the operational management teams and the centralised transactional services, ensuring effective communication in relation to the establishment position
• Act as a people partner to directorates, senior management and their teams, develop thorough understanding of the business plans and HR issues to ensure that workforce requirements are identified and support planned and delivered in a timely basis.
• To act as a change agent to proactively facilitate and deliver improvements to services. To support change management projects which impact on staff, working collaboratively with managers to achieve the desired business plan outcomes
You're thinking about working for the ambulance service, but wondering what sets us apart and makes the six counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire so special.
You get to work in one of the most diverse areas of the country; the bustling capital city is on our doorstep and the bracing North Sea coast envelops our shores to the east.
We've got historical cathedral towns and cities, brand new communities, rural broadlands and some of the busiest arteries of road and rail networks, including the M25, A14, M1, M11 and A12, and railway lines from London Liverpool Street out to Cambridge, Norwich, Peterborough, Colchester and Southend.
Wherever you go in the east of England there is always something to see and do; but if travelling around the UK and beyond is a must for you as well, the Luton, Stansted, Norwich and Southend airports couldn't make it more easier to stay in touch with loved ones or send you on a deserved holiday or short break.
• Provide expert advice and support on highly complex or sensitive HR cases to managers.
• To use HR metrics/scorecard to monitor performance, highlighting areas of concern for discussion and action with the regional management team.
• To work review the workforce establishment plans with your management teams and to ensure proactive information sharing back to the HR People Partner to ensure this is kept up to date with local knowledge and the recruitment function can proactively ensure supply to shortfall areas.
• Ensure the provision of a consistent professional service across all directorates, underpinned by sound knowledge and the principles of good practice.
• Develop the management capability of line managers, coaching and equipping them with the knowledge and skills to handle staff management responsibilities in line with the Trust’s strategic direction.
• Influence and drive business thinking and develop HR approaches that support operational business objectives, organisational design and resource plans.
• Act as an advocate of change, champion ‘change’ for all employees of the Trust by educating, informing and coaching staff and managers where appropriate.
• Foster a positive climate of employee relations within the Trust, to support the implementation of a partnership approach and develop and maintain good working relationships with representatives of Trade Unions and staff organisation
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of current employment legislation and best practice, ensuring that these are reflected in Trust working practices and operations.
• Promote good employee relations, advising managers on good practice, ensuring that appropriate HR policies and procedures are implemented across the designated area of responsibility.
• Maintain accurate, up to date and accessible records of employee issues, which enable other colleagues and HR Management to track progress of cases and deal with queries in the absence of the postholder and to enable centralised reporting.
• Maintain an effective working relationship with recognised Trade Union and staff representatives.
• Work with individual managers to assist them with the planning and implementation of change management, service development programmes, and new ways of working. Ensure that this is within Trust policy and in accordance with all statutory obligations.
• Support individual managers in achieving continuous improvement. Make proposals for the development of strategies, policies, procedures and processes which facilitate this.
• Assist managers to plan, develop and implement performance management frameworks including use of the Trust’s Appraisal process.
• Provide coaching and training sessions to your management teams, investigating offers, both in classroom and through more informal one to one and on the job learning.
• In liaison with training and OD colleagues assist in identifying the HR-related training needs of managers and staff. Develop miscellaneous courses/sessions to meet these needs.
• Deal with queries and advise managers and staff on terms and conditions of employment, in particular the NHS’s Agenda for Change pay and conditions.
• Prepare and provide management information reports, returns and feedback as required, developing appropriate databases to support this work.
• Take part in recruitment and selection interview panels as required in support of your designated area management teams.
• Advise the HR Management teams of any shortfalls or problems in delivering the HR service and advise on corrective action
• Promote Equality & Diversity and a non-discriminatory culture.
• Identify and take action when other people’s behaviour undermines Equality and Diversity
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Apr 2024