Job Description

Location

Worthing

Vacancy Type

Full Time/Permanent

Pay Range

Grade 6 - 36,872 - 38,665 (DOE) Pro rata for part time roles

Contracted Hours

37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline

Friday, November 28, 2025

Job Profile

Job Profile document

Job Summary

About the role

The People team are the first point of contact for employees and managers, providing a proactive, professional service, advice across the organisation.


Building effective working relationships and partnering with operational areas across Southern Hospice Group with the aim of achieving the organisations strategic aims through modern, practical and best practice advice and guidance.


You will develop and deliver HR plans, solutions, and improvements in line with the needs and priorities of Southern Hospice Group. Delivering a proactive, responsive, and flexible support to the departments and managers. Ensuring compliance with all the organisation's procedures and policies, employment legislation and alignment with the organisation's culture and values.

Essential criteria

Responsible for all aspects of a professional service to your designated areas of the organisation, ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, objective and quality service


Working with senior managers and leaders to plan for future workforce requirements including recruitment campaigns, restructure and organisational development, and skills development


Responsible for ensuring that case work is dealt with in a timely manner, working with managers to ensure that people issues are resolved at the lowest level through appropriate intervention


Provide support and guidance to managers to ensure plans are in place to quickly to deal with poor performance, barriers to motivation/retention and any issues arising out of HR metrics/ staff survey


Providing sound HR advice, you will support service improvements through creative people management practices and the development of innovative service improvement schemes


Working closely with your managers and People Services colleagues, to identify and implement initiatives to address the workforce challenges within your areas of work, including providing advice and guidance to managers in the development of job descriptions and person specifications to support with recruitment


Monitor and report on the HR metrics for sickness absence and turnover at monthly performance meetings within your designated areas of responsibility and on an ongoing basis, you will also be responsible for analysing workforce data relating to recruitment and retention, identifying actions needed to address any areas of concern and ensuring the development and implementation of any plans to address concerns your designated areas of the organisation


Supervise the work of direct reports on a day-to-day basis and act as a point of escalation for the People Services team for any queries that are more complex


Work with your designated areas of the organisation, Education, and the wider People Services &OD team to develop workforce plans and strategies that address the workforce challenges and (changing) service needs

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.


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Chestnut Tree House is the children's hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.


Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.


We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Benefits

Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees Up to 35 days' annual leave inclusive of bank holidays On-site education support and study leave opportunities Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card Employee Assistance Programme Death in Service

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.


This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.