Job summary
Are you seeking to develop your HR career in a fast-paced environment? If so, we would love to hear from you.
As an award-winning teaching hospital, with a range of acute and specialist services, our workforce is diverse and aspires to achieve great things for our patients. Due to the size of the organisation and the variety of the services provided you will have the opportunity build your experience and have an impact on the services you support.
Our Workforce Advisors are focused on providing specialist employee relations advice, coaching managers and developing policies.
We support colleagues to work agilely, and many of the team split the week between working on site and working from home. Please note all staff are required to work on site at least 2 days a week and flexibility is required, subject to the needs of the service e. g. meeting that require attendance in person.
If this sounds like the role for you, please get in touch.
Main duties of the job
No two days are the same in this role. You will be providing advice about sickness absence management, disciplinary and grievance processes and best practice in managing people and teams. This could be over the phone, in online meetings, or face to face.
There will be days when you will deal with challenging and sensitive situations and other days when you will be able to celebrate success and share learning. Every contact you have can make a difference to someone else and high levels of compassion and professional judgement will be crucial.
You will play an important role in providing support and advice to service managers. You will be an advocate for colleagues ensuring policies and employment legislation is followed as well as championing a just culture approach to employee relations matters.
The ongoing learning and development of team members is very important to us and to support this we have weekly team sessions to ensure there is a regular opportunity to meet as a team, discuss learning from cases and have the opportunity for CPD.
About us
The Workforce Team is based at Preston Business Centre, co-locating with other key teams such as Recruitment, Payroll and Temporary staffing, providing the opportunity for engagement and closer working relationships.
We employ over 10,000 staff across Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital and are committed to working in partnership to deliver seamless care to patients close to home.
As a teaching hospital we offer a wide range of development and training opportunities to colleagues in house.
Our purpose is to be recognised as the acute and specialised hospital services in Lancashire and South Cumbria, providing the highest standards of compassionate, safe care that gives our patients a positive experience, excelling in research, innovation and teaching, developing our staff to reach their potential, and improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities.
Details
Date posted
15 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043 a year
Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time,
Part-time,
Job share,
Flexible working,
Home or remote working,
Compressed hours
Reference number
438-PB4950
Job locations
Preston Business Centre
Watling Road
Preston
PR2 8DY
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as point of contact for managers seeking advice on terms and conditions of employment and Workforce policies.
Proactively support and advise managers on employee relations cases including sickness absence management, disciplinary, grievance, performance management and workplace conflict
Participate in job matching and job evaluation; and support recruitment processes as required
Make recommendations and proposals for changes to practice, policydevelopment and ways of working.
Provide information to managers and Workforce Business Partners to support the development of divisional workforce strategies and improvements in workforce performance metrics.
Job responsibilities
Act as point of contact for managers seeking advice on terms and conditions of employment and Workforce policies.
Proactively support and advise managers on employee relations cases including sickness absence management, disciplinary, grievance, performance management and workplace conflict
Participate in job matching and job evaluation; and support recruitment processes as required
Make recommendations and proposals for changes to practice, policydevelopment and ways of working.
Provide information to managers and Workforce Business Partners to support the development of divisional workforce strategies and improvements in workforce performance metrics.
