Workforce Advisor
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston, North West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based in Preston. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043. Applications close on 28 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Are you seeking to develop your HR career in a fast-paced environment? If so, we would love to hear from you. As an award-winning teaching hospital, w...
No two days are the same in this role. You will be providing advice about sickness absence management, disciplinary and grievance processes and best practice in managing people and teams. This could be over the phone, in online meetings, or face to face.
There will be days when you will deal with challenging and sensitive situations and other days when you will be able to celebrate success and share learning. Every contact you have can make a difference to someone else and high levels of compassion and professional judgement will be crucial.
You will play an important role in providing support and advice to service managers. You will be an advocate for colleagues ensuring policies and employment legislation is followed as well as championing a just culture approach to employee relations matters.
The ongoing learning and development of team members is very important to us and to support this we have weekly team sessions to ensure there is a regular opportunity to meet as a team, discuss learning from cases and have the opportunity for CPD.
- Act as point of contact for managers seeking advice on terms and conditions of employment and Workforce policies.
- Proactively support and advise managers on employee relations cases including sickness absence management, disciplinary, grievance, performance management and workplace conflict
- Participate in job matching and job evaluation; and support recruitment processes as required
- Make recommendations and proposals for changes to practice, policydevelopment and ways of working.
- Provide information to managers and Workforce Business Partners to support the development of divisional workforce strategies and improvements in workforce performance metrics.
The Workforce Team is based at Preston Business Centre, co-locating with other key teams such as Recruitment, Payroll and Temporary staffing, providing the opportunity for engagement and closer working relationships.
We employ over 10,000 staff across Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital and are committed to working in partnership to deliver seamless care to patients close to home.
As a teaching hospital we offer a wide range of development and training opportunities to colleagues in house.
Our purpose is to be recognised as the acute and specialised hospital services in Lancashire and South Cumbria, providing the highest standards of compassionate, safe care that gives our patients a positive experience, excelling in research, innovation and teaching, developing our staff to reach their potential, and improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities.
Essential: - Experience of working in HR undertaking employee relations case-work; - Thorough knowledge of employment law and its application; - Thorough knowledge of the principles of equality and diversity; - Experience in policy development
Desirable: - Experience of working in HR in the NHS; - Knowledge of Agenda for Change terms and conditions of service; - Experience in undertaking job evaluation
Essential: - Good general education to degree equivalent level or equivalent experience; - CIPD level 5 and CIPD Associate Membership; - ECDL or equivalent IT skills; - Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable: - CIPD Level 7
How this role compares
We hold 1,185 NHS vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays less than about 60% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,583 of them in North West.
You have 7 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has 35 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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