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HR Employee Helpline Agent | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 21 Mai 2025
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £24,169 per annum, pro rata
Oriau: Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau: 20 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad: Ipswich, IP2 8SD
Cwmni: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd: Prentisiaeth
Cyfeirnod swydd: 7229846/432-HR269-25

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We are continuing to improve our service and are seeking to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic HR Employee Helpline Agents. This is a varied and enjoyable role, where you will be providing initial advice and supporting staff across 2 acute hospital sites and several community facilities with HR queries and sickness absence.

Your working hours will be Mon-Fri 6am-10am. You will be required to work a minimum of 4 days in the office and the remainder at home.

You will provide a proactive and responsive first point of contact to staff contacting the Helpdesk.

You will respond to calls providing accurate and timely advice to staff and managers and on all types of absences and HR queries. You will provide clerical support to the HR Team, including work processing, photocopying, filing and general administration duties.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and have proven administrative and IT skills. You will be able to provide a high level of customer service, showing empathy and understanding in dealing with queries.

You will have general admin experience, including experience of working in a high volume environment and relevant NVQ 2 or equivalent.

You will respond to calls providing accurate and timely advice to staff and managers on all types of absences in accordance with internal processes and standard operating procedures.

You will be required to answer general HR queries, provide advice, guidance and support to staff and managers and where appropriate, direct both staff and manager to the correct function or resource in order to resolve their query.



We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.


We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.


We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.


Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.


We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bringwhat’swidely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.


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• Key responsibilities:
• Provide accurate and timely routine advice to managers and staff on all types of absences in accordance with internal processes and standard operating procedures.
• Appropriately escalate more complex queries to the shift supervisor/operational manager for resolution.
• Provide a proactive and responsive first point of contact to staff contacting the Employee HR Helpdesk.
• Record absence on Health roster.
• Provide a high level of customer service, showing empathy and understanding.
• Use a range of systems e.g. ESR look up, Intranet, Microsoft Office suite and other HR Systems.
• For wider HR matters, answer general queries and where appropriate, signpost staff and managers to the correct function within HR or forward the query on their behalf.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.


This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025

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