Job summary
- Main area
- Operational HR
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CS372
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Operational HR - Upton Hospital, Albert Street, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2BJ
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £51,657 - £58,785 per annum (incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/07/2026
Employer heading
HR Manager
Band 7
Job overview
Are you a qualified HR professional looking for a role which can offer you a variety of strategic and project-based work?
Would you like a role which can offer flexibility to coincide with your commitments outside of work?
We are now seeking a CIPD qualified, experienced HR practitioner to join our HR team.
We are looking for someone who has a generalist HR background, particularly employee relations, to provide the full range of operational HR support to our clinical service teams. 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. It is essential you are able to demonstrate your experience of advising managers on complex employee relations casework, HR policies and organisational change.
As a Trust we are focused on staff development and “growing our own” and can offer you a wealth of both inhouse and external development opportunities.
Your base will be Upton Hospital in Slough, but the role does provide the opportunity for agile working with an expectation that you are able to travel to any site within the trust as & when required to fulfil your role. The rest of your role will be worked from home.
Main duties of the job
This role will provide opportunities to support with workforce planning, change management and transformation, engagement and building leadership capability. You will also work closely with teams & senior stakeholders in your services to support them with the delivery of their people priorities.
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Provide professional HR advice on the full range of employee relations issues
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Build and maintain credible relationships with teams, managers & senior stakeholders, ensuring complex or sensitive information is communicated in a confident way
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Act as a point of contact for managers and staff seeking advice on our employment policies, analysing queries to offer solutions
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Advise managers on recruitment processes, providing advice on the writing of job descriptions and person specifications
Working for our organisation
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. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Degree or equivalent experience
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A level 5 CIPD qualification, or equivalent experience
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Experience working in a generalist HR role with Employee Relations in a multi-skilled professional and unionised environment
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Ability to travel to multiple sites with minimal impact on daily productivity
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
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.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact: Mike Thomas on [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) level 7 or equivalent knowledge acquired through experience
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in providing HR advice to managers.
- Experience of devising and delivering training packages on employment related courses to line managers
- Extensive experience of 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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mike Thomas
- Job title
- HR Business Partnering Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825387552
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