Membership

Working for a professional body with over 2,300 members from both the UK and overseas!

1. Administering and coordinating all activities for the committees, including preparation of agendas and minutes, circulating papers, reports, correspondence and publications, maintaining records of queries received and taking the necessary actions, as well as collating, summarising and drafting official responses pertaining to consultations by NICE, MHRA and other external bodies.

2. Managing all aspects of the organisations Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) production and updates:

• Maintaining a central record of all PILs production status
• Forwarding proposal forms, templates and instructions on PIL writing and production processes to authors and updaters
• Maintaining good relationships and communication lines with authors and updaters, the Therapy & Guidelines sub-committee and Lay Review Panel members
• Circulating proposals and drafts to the Therapy & Guidelines sub-committee and Lay Review Panel
• Proof-reading and finalising ahead of publication on the organisations website
• Maintaining records of queries and taking the necessary actions, e.g. checking content and source materials, carrying out basic literature searches in discussion with the Director of Clinical Standards and/or Information Scientist/Guideline Research Fellows, circulating to Therapy & Guidelines sub-committee for consideration, applying changes where appropriate, responding to enquirers, etc.

3. Spearheading the organisations application for the Patient Information Forum TICK scheme to certify the process for producing and updating PILs:
   • Understanding the previous scheme by NHS England's Information Standard and comparing with the new PIF TICK scheme
   • Drafting an updated PILs production process based on the current version and mapping it to the PIF TICK criteria, highlighting any current shortcomings and suggesting potential solutions
   • Submitting the certification application and dealing with feedback received
   • Ensuring adherence to the PIF TICK criteria for al PILs, once certified
4. Attending the organisations Annual Conference, assisting with all aspects of delegate registration and conference organisation, and providing administrative support for relevant sub-committee meetings.
5. Assisting the Director of Clinical Standards with the preparation, launch and administration of annual national clinical audits:

• Reading on the subject matter to aid understanding
• Preparation of clinical audit proformas
• Piloting with members of the National Audit sub-committee
• Circulating emails and regular reminders to the membership
• Collating and cleaning responses
• Creating and distributing certificates of thanks to participants
• Analyses of data, if required
• Preparing PowerPoint slides for audit results, if required
• Maintaining the organisations audit standards document

• 1 year(s) working in administrative support
• Experience in scientific/medical administration
• Experience in committee administration
• Experience in providing high quality, precise minutes
• Experience in proof-reading medical literature for the lay reader
• Experience in data analyses using Microsoft Excel or the statistical software package STATA or similar
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office - Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint/Access/Teams
• Understanding of cloud-based file storage systems, e.g. SharePoint, OneDrive

Hunter Merrifield, trading name of Huntress Search Ltd, acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Job purpose:

To provide a quality and consistent HR service which supports and advises managers to ensure that the HR policies are properly and consistently implemented. To undertake HR projects against commissioned outcomes under Senior HR Adviser. To actively network within the organisation to ensure a productive response in the provision of HR services. To work on sickness absence and to support general casework and recruitment initiatives across departments.

Key areas of responsibility

• Work with Senior HR Advisers to support the development of line management capacity in order to assist them to achieve their business objectives
• Support and enable managers to achieve solutions to management issues within the organisations cultural context.
• Provide advice and coaching on specific day to day HR issues.

Main tasks

• To advise managers and staff on matters across the whole spectrum of human resources, to ensure a consistent approach towards correctly implementing the organisations HR policies.
• To assist and advise in the investigation of disciplinary and grievance cases, maintaining an awareness of current legislation and its application ensuring that policies and procedures are amended accordingly.
• To provide support to managers and staff on redeployment in order to avoid issuing compulsory redundancy where possible.
• To coordinate recruitment campaigns to attract and recruit appropriate candidates at all levels
• To perform a limited counselling role and to deal with personal and telephone enquiries to ensure that staff work problems are resolved.
• To complete statistical returns relating to specific functional areas and provide relevant information for inclusion in management reports to support the HR KPI's.
• To assist and advise in the implementation of organisation and service reviews to ensure that strategic objectives are fulfilled and that the change programmes are embedded within this business.
• To assist in management of change and organisational development projects. To assist in the provision of workshops for managers and staff on HR topics and new initiatives
• To support Head of People on Continuous Improvement initiatives to support the People Strategy and Living Knowledge.
• To monitor specific data i.e. sickness absence, competencies, equalities, conducts and liaises with and advise managers on issues arising. Attend and advise boards and appeals panels on their role and responsibilities.
• To attend meetings with Trade Union representatives as required and provide quality advice to managers in respect of employee relations' issues to support the delivery of an effective service.
• Responsible for undertaking Job Evaluation and advising managers in line with Pay Policy
• Expected to demonstrate a willingness to take on a range of tasks and to develop new skills, as appropriate, in own or other departments/directorates to support the delivery of the organisations services as required by line management

Minimum requirements (essential)

• Working towards a professional qualification (CIPD or equivalent)
• Relevant generalist HR experience
• Experience of providing HR advice and support to managers and other staff
• Experience of working on projects with set outcomes and timescales from an HR perspective
• Ability to work in a fast moving working environment
• Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and professional HR issues
• Diagnostic skills
• E-literate
• Good interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiation skills

Hunter Merrifield, trading name of Huntress Search Ltd, acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Job purpose

To oversee the provision of a high quality HR service. To ensure support and advice to senior managers to ensure that HR policies are properly and consistently implemented. To provide a lead on the delivery of HR projects under the direction of the HR Business Partner and support Living Knowledge strategic programmes. To actively network internally and externally to ensure the organisation continuously develops and learns from others. Ensures all operational KPIs are met by Adviser's.

Key areas of responsibility

• Work with HR Business Partner to deliver a proactive and value added HR service to the organisation
• Support and enable managers to achieve solutions to management issues within the organisations cultural context.
• To manage the Adviser's to ensure HR issues are addressed in a timely manner. Working closely as Senior HRAs, to ensure excellent service delivery across both portfolio areas
• To lead and work on HR and Strategic projects with minimum supervision from HRBPs to deliver the People Strategy and Living Knowledge
• To ensure HR contracts are managed effectively
• Managing a team of 3-4 Advisers

Main tasks

• To ensure and advise managers and staff on matters across the whole spectrum of human resources.
• To coordinate senior and complex recruitment campaigns to attract and recruit appropriate candidates at all levels.
• To complete statistical returns relating to specific functional areas and provide relevant information for inclusion in management reports to support the HR KPI's.
• To advise on the implementation of organisation and service reviews to ensure that strategic objectives are fulfilled and that the change programmes are embedded within this business. To work on management of change, and organisational development projects. To manage and interpret workforce information data to assist with service development and change management plans.
• To deliver workshops for managers and staff on HR topics and new initiatives
• To support Head of HR on various HR projects and Continuous Improvement initiatives to support the People Strategy and Living Knowledge.
• To undertake reward reviews and make recommendations for change and improvements the meet business needs
• Provide advice to hearing boards and appeal panels to enable them to make appropriate decisions. Advise managers on how to communicate their outcome decisions.
• To attend meetings with Trade Union representatives as required and provide quality advice to managers in respect of employee relations' issues to support the delivery of an effective service.
• Responsible for undertaking Job Evaluation and advising managers in line with Pay Policy
• Ensure the fair distribution of work across Adviser's and ensure KPIs are met by all staff
• Ensure the successful management of outsourced HR contracts
• Ensure diversity initiates are delivered to meet KPI's and business needs
• Expected to demonstrate a willingness to take on a range of tasks and to develop new skills, as appropriate, in own or other departments/directorates to support the delivery of the organisations services as required by line management

Minimum requirements (essential)

• CIPD qualified or equivalent
• Proven generalist HR experience
• Proven successful experience of working on projects with set outcomes and timescales from an HR perspective
• Ability to work in a fast moving working environment
• Commitment to continuous professional development and learning
• Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and professional HR issues
• Diagnostic skills
• E-literate
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiation skills
• Able to demonstrate behaviour supporting organisations values

Hunter Merrifield, trading name of Huntress Search Ltd, acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.