Main area: Human Resources
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Fixed term: 8 months (Until September 2025)
Hours:
Full time
Flexible working
Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00)
Job ref: 246-COR6593533-A
Site: Wedgwood House, Town: Bury St Edmunds
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 gross per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality-driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles; please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
Help us care for the people who care. We are happy to be offering a Fixed Term Contract opportunity to join our supportive HR team until September 2025. This is an ideal opportunity for someone keen to develop their HR career and who is interested in providing excellent HR advice to managers and staff. We will support professional studies to help build and develop your career. Working as an HR Advisor, supported by our experienced HR Team, we are looking for energised individuals who will be excited to join us. The focus of these roles will be to have an immediate and positive impact in our HR support and advice within our Trust, being visible and accessible as a key member of the local teams, balanced with flexible hybrid working. This role is based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds. Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone with good overall Employee Relations knowledge and proven experience of focusing on putting people before process. We want someone who can gather and understand intelligence, specifically focusing on absence and performance management, as well as get involved in wider HR related project work to increase your HR Generalist knowledge, and to help coach our leaders in supporting our staff. Communication is key. We are looking for someone who can communicate professionally with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome. However, most importantly and in keeping with our trust values, we are looking for someone who has exceptional people and influencing skills as this role requires you to convey difficult decisions whilst having to maintain professional relationships. Working for our organisation
If you want to make a difference in people’s experience at work by putting people before process, we want you to be part of our fantastic team! What can we offer in return? This is an exciting time to join NSFT as we commit to developing our Trust. NSFT is a large mental health trust employing staff in multiple locations across Norfolk and Suffolk. We provide mental health and learning disability services in the community and inpatient settings. We believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, can provide better outcomes for our service users. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Interested? Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you! Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Some of the benefits you can expect: a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) NHS discounts and many more Person specification
Experience
Provision of HR advice and support to managers and staff Knowledge
A comprehensive knowledge of Employment law, professional HR developments and best practice HR policies and procedures Qualifications and experience
Part CIPD qualified or working towards or equivalent level of knowledge and experience Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel and Development with equivalent level knowledge and experience EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying. DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB) FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it. Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so. The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale. This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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Help us care for the people who care. We are happy to be offering a Fixed Term Contract opportunity to join our supportive HR team until September 2025. This is an ideal opportunity for someone keen to develop their HR career and who is interested in providing excellent HR advice to managers and staff. We will support professional studies to help build and develop your career. Working as an HR Advisor, supported by our experienced HR Team, we are looking for energised individuals who will be excited to join us. The focus of these roles will be to have an immediate and positive impact in our HR support and advice within our Trust, being visible and accessible as a key member of the local teams, balanced with flexible hybrid working. This role is based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds. Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone with good overall Employee Relations knowledge and proven experience of focusing on putting people before process. We want someone who can gather and understand intelligence, specifically focusing on absence and performance management, as well as get involved in wider HR related project work to increase your HR Generalist knowledge, and to help coach our leaders in supporting our staff. Communication is key. We are looking for someone who can communicate professionally with a wide spectrum of people to achieve the best outcome. However, most importantly and in keeping with our trust values, we are looking for someone who has exceptional people and influencing skills as this role requires you to convey difficult decisions whilst having to maintain professional relationships. Working for our organisation
If you want to make a difference in people’s experience at work by putting people before process, we want you to be part of our fantastic team! What can we offer in return? This is an exciting time to join NSFT as we commit to developing our Trust. NSFT is a large mental health trust employing staff in multiple locations across Norfolk and Suffolk. We provide mental health and learning disability services in the community and inpatient settings. We believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, can provide better outcomes for our service users. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Interested? Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other and are looking forward to welcoming you! Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Some of the benefits you can expect: a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) NHS discounts and many more Person specification
Experience
Provision of HR advice and support to managers and staff Knowledge
A comprehensive knowledge of Employment law, professional HR developments and best practice HR policies and procedures Qualifications and experience
Part CIPD qualified or working towards or equivalent level of knowledge and experience Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel and Development with equivalent level knowledge and experience EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying. DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB) FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it. Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so. The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale. This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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