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Job overview

If you are looking for your next challenge to build on your skills, knowledge and experience as an employee relations expert and an inclusive leader, we have just the job. 

We are seeking an exceptional candidate for an exciting new opportunity as the Head of Employee Relations, within the People Services function.

You will be a highly experienced and credible employee relations practitioner, a confident and decisive thinker, able to demonstrate your passion for driving timely results with focus on early resolution, underpinned by compassionate and just and learning culture.

You will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build relationships, work effectively across the Trust and cultural boundaries, setting and delivering high standards of service, leading a high performing service and employee relations team.

In return you can expect that we will be committed to your health and wellbeing in the workplace, opportunities for learning and development throughout the year, including sector-specific skills development and employment law updates.

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS DO NOT NEED TO REAPPLY

Interview Date: 24 July 2024

Main duties of the job

• Delivering an agile, best in class employee relations service, with outstanding customer service and clear structured approach to the management of employee relations issues.
• Ensuring Just and Learning Culture and early conflict resolution, advocacy and mediation are embedded across all ER systems, processes, procedures, and practices with the associated upskilling of the workforce, and people managers.  
• Ensuring that our policies and procedures are current, clearly signposted, accessible, and effective with related collateral including training, toolkits, guidance available to support people managers and staff with resolving issues, underpinned by our values, aims and Just culture. 
• System and processes are aligned to provision of dashboard / analytics to people managers and leadership teams as an enabler to those functions embedding in inclusive and just learning culture.   
• Learning and improvement processes are embedded into the on-going processes across all employee relations activity. This will form part of the on-going improvement programme as part of being an inclusive employer.
• High performing advisory team, appropriately supported and developed to deliver agile and high standard service.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

 We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.