Job Description

Lakeside Healthcare is a large GP partnership that provides NHS care for around 170,000 patients across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. We are made of eight GP practices across 14 sites that are part of their local communities.

We work together as practices to provide resilience, sharing learning and professional back-office support services.

Our most important asset is our people, who provide care for our patients and help run our surgeries smoothly. We employ over 500 clinical and non-clinical staff, and we invest in training and developing to ensure that we retain and attract good quality staff who want to stay with us and be part of our team.

We are proud of what we do and strive to demonstrate our values of Caring, Respect, Quality and Teamwork in everything we do.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Being part of the Human Resources team based at Exchange Court, Corby, the post holder will be working as part of a talented group of professionals who all have the same goal in mind...that is to provide a quality and dynamic, solutions-based offering to our internal customers across our partnership.

You will be joining the HR Team at a time of growth as we aim to deliver an enhanced offer to our wider business across all of our sites. You will work alongside your like-minded colleagues within the HR Team, who are all dedicated to delivering against our core KPIs and seeing the success of our people and in turn our patient services.

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced HR Advisor looking for their next opportunity or an established Senior HR Advisor?

As a Senior HR Advisor, you will partner with specific assigned business areas in both a strategic and hands-on role to provide full cycle HR support.

As an HR Generalist, you will be confident with identifying the organisational and people priorities, adopting a responsive and solution focused approach and delivering best practice support. You will establish yourself as a trusted advisor within the business.

You will partner with managers on all their people related matters, including recruitment, employee relations, culture and engagement, internal communication, organisation, performance management and talent development.

This will be an exciting position well-suited to someone who is confident with all HR disciplines and who can bring an operational and solutions focused approach. This role is critical in executing our HR initiatives, providing great internal customer support, and driving HR functional excellence and process improvement.

What you will do

You will develop effective relationships with key stakeholders across your business areas, partnering with them, providing solution focused outcomes, and supporting them with people matters.

You will complement the existing HR Team in delivering an efficient and effective value-added service to the business which includes systemised and standardised HR systems and processes for; but not limited to, providing a high-quality service including; Recruitment and Selection, Performance development, People management, Policy and Practices, Professional registration, Education, coaching, training and development, absence management, workforce health and wellbeing and payroll.

This is very much a hands-on role where you will be guiding and supporting managers with solutions and providing them with step-by-step advice as appropriate.

Provide input to team projects when and where required and work across the partnership to ensure that the key HR best practices remain coordinated and delivered in a professional and timely manner.

The post holder will work in conjunction with the HR Manager and the wider team in the delivery of the agreed HR Plan by always providing a high-quality service.

Essential Criteria

HR Advisor experience Qualified to CIPD L5 Able to think creatively and work on your own initiative Strong understanding and application of HR policy, process, and up to date employment legislation Detailed knowledge of all aspects of HR management, in particular areas of employee relations and employment law, performance management and HR projects. Team player and the willingness to support others with heavy workloads, prepared to become involved in non-core tasks Proven stake-holder management skills; able to successfully influence multiple stakeholders- and deliver a high level of service to both internal and external customers You will be experienced in a diverse range of employee relations case management, always looking at driving high performance through leaders and employees. Involvement in projects is key and you will work collaboratively across the HR Team, providing insight and reporting to drive the HR agenda within the business.

What we offer you (Benefits)

Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements) NHS pension and long service recognition NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card) Career opportunities Role specific training and ongoing development Great team environment

Interview process

Please apply with a CV and a cover letter - Please upload your CV as a pdf and include your personal email address in your cover letter.

Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually.

To help you shine and show your full potential, please make us aware of any changes you might need at any stage of your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role, any changes at interviews, or anything else, we encourage you to contact our central HR team. northantsicb.lakesidehumanresources@nhs.net.

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after the advert has closed and will advise of interview arrangements if successful, however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions that do not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 34,000.00-36,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Free parking On-site parking Store discount
Application question(s):

Do you have the right to work in the UK? (Yes/No) - If you answered Yes you must be able to provide sufficient evidence upon interview. Have you worked for Lakeside Healthcare before? If Yes where did you work. Are you a seasoned HR practitioner with demonstrable experience of providing proven solution focused advice and support to challenging employee relations matters? Are you comfortable with challenging the status quo and through effective negotiation can you persuade line managers to follow best practice and legislation? Do you possess a minimum of CIPD L5 qualification
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 04/05/2025