People and Culture Advisor

We are happy to be offering a Fixed Term Contract opportunity to join our supportive People and Culture 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 People and Culture Advisor, supported by our experienced 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 support and advice within our Trust, being visible and accessible as a key member of the local teams, balanced with flexible hybrid working.

These roles can be based at our locations in either Norfolk or Suffolk.

We are looking for someone with good overall Employee Relations and HR knowledge, with 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 People and Culture 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.

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, and able to provide better outcomes for our service users.

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

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• Provision of HR advice and support to managers and staff

• A comprehensive knowledge of Employment law, professional HR developments and best practice
• HR policies and procedures

• 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

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)

Fixed term

12 months

Full-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working