Employee Relations Assistant Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

The last 24 months has been tough for everyone across the NHS. Putting the people who work for Croydon Health Services into the front and centre of all of our current and future activities that will support us on “our road to recovery” is critical. These aspirations have seen us develop an ambitious but exciting people plan for the Trust to continue to focus on throughout 2023-2024 as a priority.

The role of the Employee Relations (ER) Assistant is to provide comprehensive administrative and clerical support to the Employee Relations Team, Recruitment Relationship Manager and ad hoc support to the HR Business Partnering team as agreed by the Head of ER. The post holder will provide a responsive and customer focused administration and clerical service ensuring that all processes are in line with NHS Employers and Trust terms and conditions and best practice.

Main duties of the job

Employee Relations Assistant Band 3

To help us with this journey we are looking for someone to join our evolving and expanding Employee Relations and HR Business Partnering Team in this hugely critical assistant role. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and committed individual to start and build their HR career by joining our team in the role of Employee Relations Assistant who will support our wider employee relations team, HR business partnering team and recruitment approvals processes. This means the individual will get a real variety of work to be able to support on across the directorate giving them a varied level of knowledge across different HR specialisms.

Typical HR support tasks will include: processing DBS rechecks, issuing addendums to contracts, running and distributing monthly reports, checking and escalating on compliance reports, dealing with day to day queries, completing reference requests.

The individual will also support the Employee Relations team co-ordinate information, setting up hearing panels and taking minutes and typing up notes to support all HR case work. This is a critical role that also involves supporting the weekly recruitment process by managing the processing of all approvals post the weekly vacancy approval panel and supporting any additional tasks across the wider HR team as needed.

Interview Date: 15th March 2023 (provisional)

About us

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children’s Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff. As well as offering access to a range of core skills training and professional development.