Workforce Investigator: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

The Workforce Investigator will provide expert leadership and oversight of workplace investigations across the Trust, ensuring high-quality, timely, legally compliant, and fair investigations while strengthening organisational capability, promoting a just and compassionate culture, and driving continuous improvement in employee relations practice.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and conduct complex, sensitive, and high-profile employee relations investigations across the Trust, ensuring a fair, impartial, and timely approach.
• Act as the Trust’s subject matter expert on workplace investigations, including Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) cases involving medical staff.
• Manage investigations from initial scoping through to reporting, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, ACAS guidance, and relevant employment legislation.
• Coach, support, and develop managers and investigators, promoting best practice, consistency, and high-quality outcomes.
• Design and deliver training on investigation skills, risk mitigation, and employment relations best practice.
• Analyse employee relations data, identify trends, and contribute to service improvements and organisational learning.
• Review and enhance investigation processes, guidance, and tools to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Champion a compassionate, inclusive, and learning-focused culture aligned with Trust values.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing a caseload across a range of matters
• Proven experience of giving advice and support on sensitive and confidential matters including complex and contentious casework
• Experience of writing investigation reports or equivalent reports where analysis and comparison of information is required
• Experience of having developed and delivered training sessions
• Experience of working in a unionised environment
• Experience of contributing to the development of and successful implementation of policies, procedures and service improvement

Desirable

• Experience of managing cases through Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS): Policies and Procedures for Medical and Dental Practitioners
• Management and leadership experience
• Experience of working in the NHS/ public sector

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of employment law, legislation and policies with practical application in an organisation
• Knowledge of current HR issues/best practice

Desirable

• Knowledge of NHS terms and conditions of service – agenda for change and medical and dental
• Knowledge of the MHPS Policies and Procedures for Medical and Dental Practitioners

Skills

Essential

• Advanced keyboard skills and manipulating reports (1) – efficiently use Microsoft and other software (1)
• Ability to organise own workload that is subject to change (1) and effective time management (1)
• Ability to negotiate and influence (1), problem solve (1), attention to detail (1), manage confrontational situations (1)
• Excellent effective communication skills both verbally and in writing with staff at all levels (1) and build effective working relationships (1)

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate diploma level or equivalent or able to demonstrate specialist knowledge within this field through practical experience
• Coaching or mentoring qualification or study
• Facilitation or mediation qualification or substantial training

Closing Date: 17 September 2026