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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health difficulties to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Kneesworth House is a 155 bed mental health hospital situated in Hertfordshire (on the borders of Cambridgeshire) with good commuting access to / from London. The hospital has a full pathway of care including medium, low secure, locked rehabilitation and open recovery wards situated across the site.
Kneesworth House offers purpose built services with medium secure, low secure, and both locked and open rehabilitation opportunities.
The wide range of care settings maximises the opportunity for patients to have step down pathways and move easily between care settings to whatever level of security is most appropriate for their care. In addition to ward-based living and activity areas there is patient engagement opportunity in varied occupational therapy facilities. Patients here report high levels of satisfaction. Four residential houses afford a clear step down pathway for patients.
Our HR Advisor role involves:
Recruitment
- To work with the Healthcare Resourcing team to identify appropriate and innovative advertising mechanisms for all roles within the Hospital.
- Ensures completion of the weekly vacancy tracker within timelines
- Attends weekly recruitment calls with Healthcare Resourcing Business Partners.
- To actively engage with the leadership team to ensure that staffing ladders are reviewed on an ongoing basis to ensure recruitment activity is appropriately organised
- Responsibility for identifying unique and innovative ways of attracting candidates and engaging local teams to be involved in the process
- To lead and manage all open days at the hospital including advertising campaigns leading up to the event and getting in touch with candidates post event
- To ensure that candidates are supported and contacted during the Pre-Employment stage.
- Focus on Time to Offer and ensure that internal processes are continually reviewed to match need.
On-boarding
- Accountability for ensuring that processes are in place to support candidates through the on boarding process.
- Maintain contact with the candidate during this process
- Responsibility for ensuring all candidates receive a full and proper induction into their role and that appropriate records are kept on site
Payroll
- Accountability for ensuring colleagues are paid accurately on a monthly basis and sign off of payroll on a weekly or monthly basis.
- Responsibility for ensuring all bank and permanent employees data is maintained
- Accountable for ensuring colleagues files are kept in a manner in line with Company policy and ensure they are secure at all times
Retention & Engagement
- Ensure that the site Your Say Forum is carried out in the appropriate time frame and that notes and actions are passed to the Divisional HR Business Partner for discussion at the regional YSF
- Be the lead on site for the Employee Engagement Survey (EES) including promotional communication ahead of the EES, during and leading with the Hospital Director the action planning design and follow up.
- Carry out exit interviews on every occasion and ensure information and data is collated to enable trends to be established and used for local plans; ensure action is taken when adverse issues are raised.
- Maintain the Nurse Loyalty Bonus data ensuring that the correct individuals are identified to receive monies by the Divisional HR Director.
- Work with the leadership team to identify a site succession plan for key roles and identify development opportunities
Employee Relations
- Liaise and seek advice from the Healthcare Employee Relations team on all cases and ensure that they are kept up to date
- Liaise with Divisional HR Business Partner on complex issues to ensure consistency across the division
- Ensure that the suspension protocol is followed on every occasion and actively engage with your leadership team to ensure suspensions are appropriately managed
- Support leaders to proactively manage poor performance or attendance
- Responsibility for ensuring that the site actively manages all cases of sickness both long and short term and offer advice
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