HR Assistant Student Placement

This HR Assistant, Undergraduate Student Placement, role within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills and grow your career becoming a part of the HR service within the NHS.

The Placement is a great opportunity, which allows you to put theory into practice and when you return to your studies you will be able to apply real life examples.

You can expect to be involved at an appropriate level in all aspects of HR and OD work. You will be supported in providing generalist HR advice for a range of employee relations case work, including sickness absence management, disciplinary and grievances.

You will develop and use many skills to support a busy HR department. These will include being an excellent communicator able to develop and maintain relationships across a wide range of staff. You will also help work with the team to provide key information to hospital managers and clinicians enabling them to manage their workforce effectively. Training, buddying and mentoring will be available to the successful candidate to support their development.

The working week is 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday with normal working hours being 9am to 5pm including a daily unpaid break of 30 minutes. The successful candidates will be recruited to one of the divisions at MFT and therefore you will be placed at one of three of the hospital sites across the MFT footprint.

This HR Assistant, Undergraduate Student Placement, role within our HR teams at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills and grow your career becoming a part of the HR service within the NHS.

The Placement is a great opportunity, which allows you to put theory into practice and when you return to your studies you will be able to apply real life examples.

You will join the Manchester University NHS Foundation mission of \’Working together to improve the health and quality of life of our diverse communities\’.

The strategic aims to achieve this are –

• to help people to live well;
• to provide high quality, integrated care;
• to be a place that people enjoy working and building their career;
• to deliver greater value for our patients and communities; and
• to lead world-class research and innovation.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programs. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martha Khalil Job title: Assistant HR Business Partner Email address: martha.khalil@mft.nhs.uk

Contactable via email: martha.khalil@mft.nhs.uk #J-18808-Ljbffr