HR Assistant Student Placement | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	14 April 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£22,383 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 May 2025
Location:	Manchester, M13 9WL
Company:	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7148988/349-CSS-6055271-A

Summary

This HR Assistant, Undergraduate Student Placement, role within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills and grow your career becoming a part of the HR service within the NHS.

The Placement is a great opportunity, which allows you to put theory into practice and when you return to your studies you will be able to apply real life examples.

You can expect to be involved at an appropriate level in all aspects of HR and OD work. You will be supported in providing generalist HR advice for a range of employee relations case work, including sickness absence management, disciplinary and grievances.

You will develop and use many skills to support a busy HR department. These will include being an excellent communicator able to develop and maintain relationships across a wide range of staff. You will also help work with the team to provide key information to hospital managers and clinicians enabling them to manage their workforce effectively. Training, buddying and mentoring will be available to the successful candidate to support their development.

The working week is 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday with normal working hours being 9am to 5pm including a daily unpaid break of 30 minutes. The successful candidates will be recruited to one of the divisions at MFT and therefore you will be placed at any one of the hospital sites across the MFT footprint

This HR Assistant, Undergraduate Student Placement, role within our HR teams at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills and grow your career becoming a part of the HR service within the NHS.

The Placement is a great opportunity, which allows you to put theory into practice and when you return to your studies you will be able to apply real life examples.

You will rotate between each Hospital/MCS/Corporate HR Teams which provides a broad range of services to the staff and managers across our 12 Hospitals. Our HR services cover the following areas:
• Clinical and Scientific Services
• Corporate/Group HR
• St Mary’s
• WTWA
• Eye & Dental
• RMCH
• MRI 
• NMGH

You will join the Manchester University NHS Foundation vision to improve the health and quality of life of our diverse population by building an organisation that:
• Excels in quality, safety, patient experience, research, innovation and teaching
• Attracts, develops and retains great people
• Is recognised internationally as a leading healthcare provider

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programs. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Monday 28 Apr 2025

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