Hr Advisor

Hr Advisor

Location: 70 Redcliff Street, BS1 6AL
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Duration: 6+ Months
Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 17:00, 37 Hours per week
Pay Rate: £ 19.81 per day 
Job Ref: (phone number removed)
 
Responsibilities

• Act as the lead for HR casework in your service area, being the first point of contact for all HR queries from managers seeking advice and support.
• Provide advice, guidance, and support to managers on conducting disciplinary investigations and hearings, managing performance and grievance improvement and capability issues, and supporting absence at work.
• Provide advice, guidance, and support to managers on handling probation periods, extensions or failures, and support with the management of fixed-term contracts.
• Manage colleague lifecycle processes including onboarding, payroll, flexible working, and leavers.
• Assist with queries that are sent to the central HR inbox.
• Provide support to HR Business Partners for complex change management cases or casework as required.
• Drive forward improvements and changes for all elements of the generalist HR function, from creating policies, monitoring, and reviewing their implementation, and ensuring supportive documentation is fit for purpose, updating and communicating changes where appropriate.
• Support in the collation and interpretation of both quantitative and qualitative data/information to monitor current staffing data and operational HR efficiencies.
• Drive collaboration with stakeholders through regular one-to-one meetings with line managers and senior managers to provide innovative and relevant solutions to their generalist HR issues and supporting managers to make timely and well-informed decisions in line with internal policies and procedures.
• Lead on the delivery of some key generalist HR projects, including those linked to the People and Culture Improvement Programme.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Employment law, updating the wider HR team and internal policies/procedures following relevant case law or law update, as required.
• Deliver training programmes to meet corporate and directorate needs.

Person Specification
Essential

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent professional HR qualification or experience.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices, with experience managing and leading on worker relations cases, including restructures, redundancy, and dismissal.
• Experience providing consistent HR advice to managers at various levels with proven ability to coach and develop their capabilities.
• Demonstrable understanding of worker lifecycle processes.
• Experience using HR systems.
• Experience of giving HR advice and guidance to managers and colleagues on the implementation of existing policy and practice.
• Experience of designing and implementing processes and associated guidance at an organisational level.
• Experience of successful project implementation and monitoring.
• Experience of analysing information and making appropriate recommendations.

Skills and Competencies

• Capable of independently planning and prioritising workload to meet a range of demands to time and quality.
• Ability to make sound decisions based on established practice and professional judgement.
• Excellent IT skills, good working knowledge of Microsoft Office to produce high-quality reports and information to staff at all levels.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels of an organisation.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with a proven ability to develop and maintain effective and positive relationships internally and externally.
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
• Understanding of the importance of discretion and confidentiality.
• Ability to be innovative and creative.

Desirable

• Experience working with iTrent.
• Experience of working in local authority or local government.

 
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