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Are you ready to bring your passion, creativity, happy vibes and HR genius to a place that truly makes a difference? Look no further! At PossAbilities, we’re a social enterprise with on a mission to help vulnerable people ‘Live the life they choose.’ Mostly we support people with learning disabilities, young people leaving care and people with dementia...though we do lots of other great things too. If that sounds like something you’d love to be a part of, keep reading!
The role of People Advisor is a key role in our team. You will support the delivery of our ambitious People Plan and its objectives to create a great place to work, ensuring everyone loves their job and can do their best work. You will play a key role in delivering efficient HR support and advisory services to all areas of the organisation and partner our leaders to ensure we are delivering a great PossAbilities experience for our 770+ employees.
Your Purpose
To offer advice, support and guidance to both employees and managers on HR matters. You will be a key source of coaching and information for line managers, proactively developing and supporting a positive employee experience for the people that work for us. You will support the People Experience Manager and have a focus on employee relations.
The Hours
This is a full-time position, 37 hours per week Monday to Friday or there is the potential option of a part time job share. If this is of interest to you, please clearly state on your application what hours/ days you would like to do, if you are interested in this position as a job share and this can be discussed further if you are invited to interview.
The Role
* Advise and support managers creating approaches that positively impact engagement for the whole of an individuals employment journey.
* Manage employee relations from end to end, ensuring accurate advice is given, and updating the case tracker and employee files.
* Manage sickness absence effectively, ensuring long- and short-term procedures are followed correctly. Report on and monitor absence metrics and focus on improving these through effective and timely case management.
* Support managers with investigation, disciplinary, grievance and capability procedures, ensuring these are carried out in a timely manner, in line with our policy and legislation. Including preparing for and attending meetings in an advisory and note taker capacity.
* Coaching and developing managers in people management, identifying learning needs and working with the People Experience Partner on learning and development initiatives to fill any skills gaps, including the delivery and design of training.
* Support good management practices to ensure a good employee experience for all our staff, including advising on survey results and employee feedback and implementing improvements with managers where required.
* Support the People Experience Manager and HRD with the delivery of projects in line with the People Plan
* Ensure the accurate processing of payroll and pensions, support employees and managers with payroll queries and their resolution and liaise with our managed payroll .
* Work in conjunction with other members of the HR Team to make suggestions for the improvement of services.
* Deal with HR queries from managers and employees and support the People Coordinator, where required.
We are looking for someone who
* Has values that align with PossAbilities’ values (Passionate, Person Centred, Integrity, Creativity and Happy) and are a good fit for our culture.
* Has a progressive, non-bureaucratic approach to HR.
* Are passionate about ensuring our colleagues have a great experience working for PossAbilities.
* Enjoys working as a team and with others to deliver objectives.
* Are excellent at building relationships and communicating with people at all levels.
* Can spot opportunities to simplify and improve processes to drive better results.
* Can juggle multiple tasks effectively ensuring deadlines are met.
* Can analyse and report on data accurately
* Has experience in a generalist HR position and enjoys ER case work!
* Are recognised amongst colleagues as a trusted and credible partner and change agent
* Are happy working in a complex and fast paced organisation (you will never be bored!)
* Have the ability to interpret and explain information to managers
* Are committed to personal and professional development so that you can become even better at what you do.
* Has experience of working with HR and Payroll systems (we use ElementSuite and iTrent).
* Have a full driving license and are happy to travel to other locations.
* and most importantly - likes to have fun!
Inclusion
We strongly believe that a good workplace is one that values everyone and embraces both similarities and differences and therefore we want to ensure all our employees bring their whole-self to work. We expect all our employees to:
·Be committed to equality, diversity & inclusion; celebrate the differences of our people and contribute to a culture where everyone is valued and respected.
·Be committed to delivering person-centred services and recognising our customers as diverse individuals.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during this process please just let us know by emailingHRadmin@possabilities.org.uk
Why ChoosePossAbilities?
You will be based at the Cherwell Centre in Heywood but you are more than welcome to get out and about and visit our other offices across the North West and Yorkshire. We love having everyone together in our office as we think it’s a pretty special place, however we are happy for people to occasionally work from home if you would like to. We have a wellbeing garden, tepee, and farm, so if you love animals, and working somewhere a bit different, then come and join us.
Your team
Your line manager will be our People Experience Manager. Other members of our fab team include our HR Director, L&D Manager and our L&D Team Leader, our People Advisor and a People Coordinator. We work hard but have lots of fun together.
Don't just take our word for it:
We were named as one ofThe Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025!
On our latest staff survey 98% of respondents said they were proud to work for PossAbilities and 95% said they were happy working here!
We were awarded Highly Commended for Employer of the Year at the 2024 National Learning Disability & Autism Awards
Please apply on our website: https://possabilities.elementsuite.net/vacancies?vacancy=08431c9a-634a-4b31-b934-6e114c611801&hideTileMenu=true
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