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Job description
Role: HR Advisor
Salary: £38,000 – £39,000
Hours: 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday
Hybrid: 3 days office based | 2 days working from home
Contract: 6 month FTC with potential to go permanent
Start date: As soon as possible
About the role
This is a hands-on, operational HR Advisor role within a fast-paced, people-focused organisation. Previous experience supporting redundancy consultation is essential, as you will be joining the business during a period of ongoing change and will play a key role in providing confident, pragmatic HR support.
Working closely with the HR Business Partner team, you will be at the heart of the business, advising managers, resolving employee relations matters, and helping embed positive people practices across multiple business areas.
What you will be doing
No two days will be the same, but you can expect to:
* Partner with HR Business Partners to deliver proactive, generalist HR support across employee relations, performance management, workforce planning and talent initiatives
* Take ownership of sickness absence management, identifying trends, managing long-term cases, and working closely with Occupational Health to support effective outcomes
* Support organisational change activity, including restructures and redundancy consultations, ensuring processes are fair, compliant and well communicated
* Act as a trusted advisor to managers, coaching them to confidently handle people issues and build strong employee relationships
* Manage a range of ER cases, escalating complex or high risk matters to the HR Business Partner where appropriate
* Review, update and help implement HR policies and procedures so they remain practical, compliant and aligned to business needs
* Analyse absence data and KPI trends, turning insight into meaningful recommendations for the business
* Stay up to date with employment legislation, providing clear, commercially focused advice to managers
* Contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes and the wider HR strategy, always looking for smarter ways to deliver high quality HR support
This list of duties and responsibilities is not definitive and the HR Advisor will be expected undertake any reasonable management request in accordance with company policies and procedures.
What we are looking for
We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor with a proven track record in a similar generalist role, ideally within a fast-paced environment.
You will be comfortable managing a high volume of employee relations cases and confident applying up-to-date employment legislation to provide clear, practical advice to managers.
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