Deputy HR Business Partner/HR Advisor | Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Job in
Norfolk, Norfolk County, England, UK
Listing for:
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-03-07
Job specializations:
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HR/Recruitment
Talent Manager, HR Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview
We’re looking for an experienced HR professional to provide high-quality advice and support across a range of people management matters. Working closely with the HR Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in shaping effective people practices, supporting senior leaders, and driving improvements across your designated areas.
You’ll coach managers to strengthen their leadership skills, guide them through complex employee relations issues, and contribute to Trust-wide workforce projects. Building strong relationships, promoting our values, and delivering a professional, solutions-focused HR service will be central to your success in this role.
This is a hybrid role working across the East of England. The base will be confirmed at interview.
- Provide high-quality HR advice across designated areas, ensuring strong people management, workforce planning, and employee relations.
- Work with the HR Business Partner to support effective people practices and contribute to Trust-wide HR projects aligned to the workforce strategy and annual plan.
- Support and guide managers through challenging and sensitive issues, including redundancy, redeployment, disciplinary matters, performance concerns, and absence management.
Find out more about working for our organisation here:
Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills; please be advised that the use of AI in applications is monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
With effect from the 1st April 2026 Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust will be merging with Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to form a new organisation. The new Trust will provide a wide range of community health and social care services to over 4 million people, with a budget of circa £380 million and a workforce of over 7,000 people.
Main
Duties & Responsibilities HR Practice and Advice
With support from the HR Business Partner, work with managers and management teams in designated areas to improve the standard of HR practice ensuring that best practice is developed in terms of workforce management, development and employee relations for all staff including medical workforce.To work with the Workforce Information team and HR Business Partner to ensure that effective information is provided to specified areas, senior management team and other management groups on HR performance measures e.g. turnover, appraisal, vacancies, and sickness. To provide advice in the light of this information and to work with managers in designated areas to improve performance and support the development of effective leadership, including clinical leadership.To advise in a professional capacity upon employment law, Trust policies and procedures and Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental terms and conditions of employment. In addition, advise upon all aspects of employment including work performance, maternity, ill health, re-deployment and job evaluation review issues.To deputise for the HR Business Partner at relevant meetings as and when required.To keep up to date with current HR Practice by attending seminars, workshops, conferences and exploring the published material on HR best practice and case law.Employee Relations
To liaise and work with Trade Union representatives and work to enhance positive employee relations within designated areas.To advise and support managers in a wide range of employment relations issues including managing conduct, performance, and sickness, the recruitment and selection of staff, equality and diversity, maternity regulations, harassment and bullying, grievance and dispute issues effectively.To provide clear, consistent and practical advice that is in line with up-to-date and relevant employment law and trust policies and procedures. This covers all staff groups including the medical workforce. It will involve advising panels at hearings and appeals.To advise and support managers upon employment law, Trust policies and procedures, Agenda for Change and…
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