Workforce Advisor
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Preston, PR2 8DYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
28 October 2026
9 days leftJob 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.
Knowledge & Experience
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
Qualifications & Education
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 to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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