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HR AdvisorNHS

Exeter, EX2 5AF Fixed-Term £32,073 to £39,043
Posted 29 September 2026 Closing date 13 October 2026
Marsh Barton (1 mile, direct) Seaton Terminus (Seaton Tramway) (19.2 miles, direct) Lyndale Coach Park (38.2 miles, direct)

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate HR professional to join our HR Advisory Team working 33 hours per week, providing high quality advice and support to managers across the Trust.

You will be a key point of contact for a range of HR and employee relations matters, with a particular focus on complex long and short term absence, flexible working, performance and redeployment. You will provide clear, practical advice in line with employment legislation, Trust policies and best practice, while supporting our commitment to a Restorative, Just and Learning Culture.

You will build strong relationships with managers and colleagues, helping them develop their confidence and skills in managing people effectively. You will also contribute to policy and process development, training, reporting and wider HR projects.

This is a varied role where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to how we support our people and help managers provide compassionate and effective leadership.

Main duties of the job

Youll provide day to day HR advice to managers across the Trust, helping them manage a range of people matters confidently and fairly. This will include advising on complex long term absence cases, flexible working requests, performance concerns and redeployment, as well as supporting managers with meetings and difficult conversations.

Youll spend time working directly with managers to understand issues, consider the options and agree practical next steps. Youll also provide coaching and training to build managers confidence, organise and support formal meetings, prepare advice and documentation, and keep case records and workforce information up to date.

Alongside your ongoing absence casework, youll contribute to reviewing and updating HR policies and guidance, producing reports, supporting HR projects and identifying ways we can improve the service we provide to managers and staff.

Job description

To work as part of the HR Advisory Team to deliver high quality advice and guidance to managers in line with our policies, employment legislation, values and best practice.

Full job description attached.

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

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