ER Meeting Lead

The Portfolio Group

Glasgow

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 65,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Birthday leave

Private medical insurance

Pension plan and life insurance

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Job summary

The Portfolio Group are recruiting for a HR / Employment Law Expert to conduct HR meetings on behalf of clients. You will handle investigations, disciplinaries, and issue outcomes including warnings and dismissals. A CIPD degree or strong people management experience is required.

This role involves 90% office-based work in Glasgow with travel across Scotland, so a driving licence is essential. You will deliver expert HR services virtually via Microsoft Teams to support clients with formal

Qualifications

Educated to degree level in HR, law or related business discipline or with substantial professional experience.
Background in HR management, consultancy or in employment law.
Highly professional presentation, service focussed and personable; quickly able to form good working relationships.

Responsibilities

Attend meetings with clients and their employees as required.
Undertake mediation, conciliation and other employment relations services.
Provide clients with advice on legal position with individuals or groups.
Provide prompt, high quality reports of outcomes within set time frames.
Aim to achieve or exceed hearing targets set by management.

Skills

HR management

Disciplinary & investigations

Consulting & guidance

Impartial reporting

Education

HR or Law degree

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Portfolio are proud to be representing our client, a market leading professional services consultancy in their search for a HR / Employment Law Expert to conduct HR meetings on behalf of their clients. You will have experience in conducting HR meetings such as investigations, disciplinaries, decision making and issuing outcomes including warnings and dismissals. You will need a HR / CIPD Degree OR strong experience in people management and chairing HR Meetings, deciding outcomes etc. Your role will be to support thousands of business owners ensuring compliance and legality, and a fair outcome for both employer and employee. Excellent communication is a must as you will assisting business owners across the country - 100,000 to be exact! This is an amazing opportunity for a HR Expert who enjoys conducting investigations, speaking with witnesses, holding meetings and decision making on a variety of issues across all sectors and industries. This role is 90% office based in Glasgow with travel approx. 1 day every 2 weeks to anywhere in Scotland, so drivers licence is essential. This is a very fast paced, stand alone role, requiring multi-tasking, great organisation and flexibility.

Job Purpose

To deliver an expert HR service virtually via platforms such as Microsoft Teams in order to support our clients in dealing with formal meetings with their employees - conducting and advising on consultancy, capability, disciplinary, grievance and appeal issues as well as investigations and settlement negotiations.

Job Overview

We are looking for personable and confident HR professionals/ People Managers with good technical skills who can respond to often short-notice assignments and produce thoughtful, legally compliant and well-written reports. The ability to act impartially, identify and quantify risk for our clients and communicate this to them effectively is crucial.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Attend meetings with clients and their employees as arranged and diarised by an office-based paralegal and either conduct these or support the client to do so, as required.
To undertake mediation, conciliation and other employment relations services as may be requested by clients from time to time.
To provide clients with advice and guidance on their legal position with individual employees or groups of employees, with due regard to your duty of impartiality.
To provide prompt, high quality reports of outcomes within specified time frames and adhere to administrative procedures concerning file management.
Regularly achieve or exceed the hearing targets set by the Face2Face Management team.
Work towards the team objective of obtaining repeat business.

What you Bring to the Team

Educated to degree level in HR, law or related business discipline or with substantial professional experience
Background in HR management, consultancy or in employment law
Highly professional presentation, service focussed and personable; quickly able to form good working relationships with people who may be stressed, angry or upset.
A 'can do' approach to challenging situations and problem solving

Benefits