Human Resources Officer

Human Resources Officer

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) provides hospital services to over 550,000 people in Bradford and the wider Yorkshire region. We employ more than 6,500 staff across multiple sites.

The HR Business Partner team embeds the NHS People Plan and the Trust’s values. As a Human Resources Officer, you will support the HR Business Partner and HR Manager in delivering a proactive HR service to Clinical Service Units and Corporate Functions.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide professional advice and guidance to stakeholders, ensuring HR policies, procedures and best practice are applied.
• Advise managers on all aspects of employee relations and participate in investigations.
• Work closely with managers and staff to minimise sickness absence through analysis of absence data, identifying trends, and guiding managers through formal sickness absence, redeployment and capability procedures.

Person Specification

Experience

• Current experience working in an operational HR role within a large complex organisation.
• Demonstrable experience supporting and advising managers on complex and sensitive employee relations issues, including disciplinary, grievance and probationary procedures.
• Experience preparing and presenting reports.
• Experience dealing with trade unions in the workplace.
• Experience analysing workforce information data to provide factual advice to line managers and service users.
• Previous NHS experience.
• Experience with the NHS Electronic Staff Record System (ESR).
• Experience supervising or managing staff.

Knowledge

• Understanding of information governance and confidentiality.
• Sound knowledge of current employment law, GDPR and ACAS codes of practice.
• Knowledge of Agenda for Change / Job Evaluation System.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Professional CIPD qualification or part‑qualified, working towards Level 5 or above.

Skills

• Strong attention to detail, particularly in maintaining HR records and databases.
• Ability to establish credibility and build good working relationships with managers and service users.
• Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Analytical skills to make independent judgments on HR issues such as absence and special leave entitlements.
• Excellent computer skills, including all basic Microsoft packages.
• Ability to prioritise, manage and respond flexibly to conflicting demands in a calm and professional manner.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post requires a Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 disclosure and a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.

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