HR Manager

Job overview

Are you a qualified HR professional looking for a role that offers a variety of strategic and project‑based work?

Would you like a role that offers flexibility to coincide with commitments outside of work?

We are now seeking a CIPD qualified, experienced HR practitioner to join our HR team. You will be a key member of the People Partnering team, reporting to the people business partner for your service area and working closely with the wider team and senior stakeholders in this service.

As a Trust we are focused on staff development and “growing our own” and can offer you a wealth of both in‑house and external development opportunities.

Your base will be Upton Hospital in Slough, but the role expects you to travel to any site within the trust when required. The rest of your role will be worked from home.

• Provide professional HR advice on the full range of employee relations issues.
• Build and maintain credible relationships with teams, managers and senior stakeholders, ensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated confidently.
• Act as a point of contact for managers and staff seeking advice on employment policies, analysing queries to offer solutions.
• Advise managers on recruitment processes, including the writing of job descriptions and person specifications.
• Support workforce planning, change management and transformation, engagement and the building of leadership capability.
• Work closely with teams and senior stakeholders to support the delivery of their people priorities.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust, rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

Our values are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority.
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
• Working together with you to develop innovative solutions.

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work‑life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles.
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality.
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites.

• Degree or equivalent experience.
• CIPD level 5 qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working in a generalist HR role with Employee Relations in a multi‑skilled, professional and unionised environment.
• Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity.
• Extensive experience in providing HR advice to managers.
• Experience of devising and delivering training packages on employment‑related courses to line managers.
• Extensive experience working in a complex unionised environment and demonstrable experience of developing effective relations and partnership working across a diverse range of unions and professional associations.
• Experience of managing workforce projects (e.g., sickness absence projects) to ensure workforce plans can be met.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations:
Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

For questions about flexibility or the role, please contact Mike Thomas on