HR Advisor

Overview

As an HR Advisor, you will provide operational HR advisory support across secure healthcare sites, ensuring workforce practices align with NHS England contractual requirements, HMPPS security standards, and UK employment law. You will partner with operational managers, clinical leads, and senior leaders to manage employee relations, safer recruitment, and performance processes within secure settings. Your work helps maintain compliant, high-quality workforce operations in custodial environments. This role offers meaningful impact through shaping HR practices in secure healthcare and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension salary scheme available
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): confidential 24/7 support
• Access to perks at work

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day HR advice tailored to custodial environments (prisons, secure hospitals, IRCs) while considering security protocols.
• Lead or support investigations, disciplinary hearings, grievances, absence management, and capability cases.
• Support NHS England service specifications, CQC standards, and commissioning requirements.
• Ensure safer recruitment with enhanced DBS checks, right-to-work verification, occupational health clearance, and vetting.
• Support policy implementation and review aligned with NHS frameworks, ACAS guidance, and employment law.
• Assist with probation reviews, performance improvement plans, and workforce planning within secure teams.
• Collaborate with NHS commissioners, prison governors, and clinical managers on workforce issues.
• Maintain HR records and support reporting aligned to NHS workforce metrics, audits, and contract monitoring.

Key requirements

• Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Management, or equivalent experience
• CIPD Level 5 (desirable or in progress)
• Minimum 24 years HR advisory experience in NHS, healthcare, public sector, or secure estate environments
• Strong understanding of UK employment law and NHS workforce frameworks
• Excellent communication and influencing skills; resilient and well-organised; comfortable remote work with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience with HR systems and Microsoft Office

• Excellent communication
• Influencing skills
• Resilience
• HR systems
• Workforce compliance tracking
• Microsoft Office

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