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Head of Employee Relations and HR Business Partnering

Job details
Posting date: 06 August 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 05 September 2024
Location: Aylesford, ME20 6WT
Company: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6530478/380-SS0577

Summary

A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.


Strategic leadership of the People agenda across the Trust ensuring that the people strategy is delivered and embedded within the directorates and the team can be seen to add value. Strong and effective leadership and continued drive for improved performance across the People directorate and operations. Responsible for ongoing partnership working with key stakeholders including trade unions and health and directorates.

The post holder will be responsible for the service offered within their accountabilities for each and every employee by setting the tone and culture of the organisation at key points in the employee journey challenging where this is not being delivered and having proactive plans to address any outliers. The post holder will be responsible for the effective provision of the employee relations service, Investigations team, and people business partnering in KMPT. There will be a high focus on delivering great service and continually learning from experiences/feedback.

Here are some clips of our KMPT staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us.

Working at KMPT (youtube.com)
• Support the Deputy Chief People Officer, HR Operations with the strategic leadership of the People agenda and delivery of employee relations and HR business partnering in the KMPT.
• Take specific responsibility and provide the day-to-day leadership and management of Employee Relations and HR Business Partners working alongside the People team senior leadership team and providing day-to-day support and coaching to the team. They will be a subject matter expert for HR Operations being the voice and main point of contact for the team.
• Develop, implement, communicate, and embed policies, toolkits, and practices that support a fair, inclusive, proportionate, and compassionate approach to people management.
• Analyse data, monitor trends, and develop and implement an approach to ensure continuous learning and quality improvement in how we serve KMPT.
• Provide expert analysis of highly complex employment issues where no precedents exist, interpreting employment legislation and case law and providing guidance to the People Directorate, KMPT Managers, and Directors.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
• To play a key role in developing a more compassionate organisational culture in regard to our approach to the management of employee relations issues, in alignment with our values and principles for a Just Culture. To ensure a more people and less process-focused approach and regard to more restorative outcomes.
• To develop, implement, communicate, and embed policies, toolkits, and practices that support a fair, inclusive, proportionate, and compassionate approach to people management
• To develop the knowledge and skill of their team to be not only technically expert but capable in coaching managers and staff in how they approach and respond to people issues.
• To ensure that the Investigations team improves the service of employee relations cases and shows a return on investment.
• To embed continuous learning to improve the service that we offer.
• To analyse data, monitor trends, and develop and implement an approach to ensure continuous learning and quality improvement in how we deal with employee relations issues, embedding this into our policy, toolkits, and practices.
• To maintain expertise in all NHS and legal updates as required ensuring that these are cascaded through the teams

Please see the job description for more details.


This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Aug 2024

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