People Advisor

Ascenti helps to improve the lives of millions of people in the UK every year and is at the forefront of providing the best physiotherapy and mental health treatment to the nation.

The team is made up of 800 employees in total, with healthcare professionals working across the UK to treat thousands of patients every week.â

Following a period of significant growth and with demand for Ascenti's award-winning healthcare services continuing to increase, many of the business support functions are expanding - so it is an exciting time to join!

Your purpose

Our People Advisor will play a leading role in advancing our culture and taking Ascenti to the next level.

You will empower our managers to build their people capability, plan and manage talent autonomously, at the same time as being on hand to provide appropriate HR / People advice and direction where needed.

Building strong customer relationships and with the support of the People Advisory Manager, you will provide top quality advice about policy and processes, at the same time as ensuring that we live our values from the inside out.

How your role fits within our team

You are part of the People Team, reporting to the People Advisory Manager who will support you as you grow and develop. You will have dotted-line responsibility to the Executive Team member who is accountable for the business area that you support.

You will work collaboratively across the People Team and the wider business, so that your customers experience a seamless and effective HR service. This means that you will be part-advisor, part-customer service manager, part-leader and part-coach.

Key responsibilities

• Advising managers and building capabilities
• Act as the first port of call for people expertise within your associate department.
• Implement a structured approach to engagement and collaboration with your key customers.
• Coach, question, and constructively challenge to identify root causes of any people and business issues.
• Work towards commercial objectives and organisational growth, by supporting with any people work necessary for your associate department to deliver against our business strategy.
• Implement and monitor agreed plans for talent management, development, and succession planning.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring staff morale and engagement within your associate department.

HR casework

• Coach managers of differing abilities through the sometimes difficult employee relations cases and escalate more complex matters to senior members of the team as is needed.
• Empower managers to achieve positive outcomes wherever possible and to upskill for the future to enable them to manage more autonomously.

People policy & culture

• Take ownership for specific projects and support senior members of the team where needed.
• Protect the business from risk, report any wrongdoing, and encourage HR best practice.
• Ensure all people practices, advice and guidance provided is aligned with our business strategy.
• Promote a culture of enhancing livelihoods by role modelling and promoting initiatives covering equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.
• With the guidance of senior members of the team, support projects and initiatives in your associate business area covering restructuring, organisational design or development.

People team and personal effectiveness

• Work in unity with the other advisors to standardise the team approach and collaborate on cross-organisational issues and goals.
• Work with your immediate team and broader People Team function, including People Operations and Talent Acquisition, to achieve shared goals.
• Support high standards of data integrity and work closely with People Operations and HRIS to analyse, assess and evaluate any local/regional activity.
• Stay abreast of the latest market trends and continually grow your technical knowledge.

Great benefitsâ

You'll enjoy time off, so you'll get 25 days+ bank holiday. Enhanced family (mat + pat) leave, Vitality at Work membership (free coffees, discounted gyms, and much more), along with healthcare discounts. If you want to check out Ascenti's full benefits then click here.

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Experience and qualificationsâ

• Demonstrates a good understanding of relevant UK legislation; particularly employment law and worker-related regulation
• Working effectively to juggle competing priorities and balancing quality and quantity of work.
• Previous experience working in an HR advisory capacity.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience.
• CIPD Level 3.