HR Advisor

Bringing with you experience of working in a busy and varied employee relations environment, you must be CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience), a team player and able to cope with change whilst remaining focused on achieving results. The role will often require you to manage conflicting priorities with high levels of demands, remaining an excellent communicator and having a hands on approach as you develop strong relationships with managers to support and advise them on sickness absence management, complex and sensitive employee relations matters (including advising on investigation processes). In addition, you will deliver training and coaching specific to HR processes and procedures.

You will be based at Trust HQ at Pinewood House, Dartford, with flexibility for limited home working but the role will involve some travel to our sites and therefore you will need to have the ability to travel where required.

• APPLICATIONS WILL CLOSE AT MIDDAY ON 26.06.2026 **

Reporting to the Senior People Business Partner, the HR Advisor is responsible for providing a fully comprehensive and high-quality HR support and advisory service to the Trust managers and staff.

They will be a values-driven professional, who is passionate about equalities, driving improvements and promoting excellence, who will help us to build a best-in-class HR Advisory Service.

They will work collaboratively with the Directorate Management Teams, building thriving working relationships with managers at all levels. They will play an active role in; organisational change, job evaluation, job redesign, employee relations, contractual and other operational HR issues.

They will build and maintain positive and constructive working relationships with managers, staff, staff representatives and peer networks, ensuring a focus on early resolution is developed within the service. They will ensure managers are equipped to deal with issues with their staff effectively, providing support and advice to reach informal resolutions and minimise escalation to formal processes.

Our HR Advisors are also responsible for the provision of a generalist advisory service to managers on all aspects of People matters, ensuring a strong focus on data-driven decisions, consistency and clarity of approach.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Walker-Wiltshire Job title: Senior HR Business Partner Email address: ***email_hidden***

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Katie Walker-Wiltshire, Senior HR Business Partner (***email_hidden***)