Job summary
- Main area
- People Directorate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 7 months (Fixed-term contract ending on 1st April 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0689
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Farm Villa, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior HR Advisor
Band 6
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior HR Advisor to join our dynamic HR team. To provide a professional, comprehensive, and timely Employee Relations service to Directorates or Corporate departments and to ensure the HR Business Unit delivers an exceptional, professional, effective, and efficient service to the Trust as measured by internal service level agreements or key performance indicators.
To take the lead on specific areas e.g. Agenda for Change, Equality and Diversity, Recruitment, and HR communications as directed by the Employee Relations Manager.
Main duties of the job
- Manage an operational caseload, ensuring cases are managed to quality standards
- Provide an objective and professional approach regarding job analysis
- Support HR Business Partners in all aspects of change management to ensure that change, where possible, is planned, managed and implemented in accordance with Trust policies
- Support HR Business Partners and where required deliver HR training
- Provide advice and support to HR Business Partners as appropriate.
- Monitor trends in employment practice/caseload within KMPT
- Handle referred individual grievance, disciplinary and capability cases, in addition to organisational change through all formal stages up to and including preparation for tribunal and other legal proceedings.
- Be actively involved in investigations, including the preparation of all documentation for hearings in conjunction with managers.
- Assist in the development and review of employment policies, including response to legislative changes
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge
Essential criteria
- CIPD L5 or working towards/willing to work towards
- Must be part qualified as minimum or have demonstrable equivalent experience in an ER setting
- Experience in writing reports/letters
- Knowledge of Employment Law
Desirable criteria
- Is a trained investigator
- Can work on own initiative
- MCIPD Qualified
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marne Cheeseman
- Job title
- Deputy Chief People Officer - HR Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500092129
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