HR Advisor

The Richmond Fellowship Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care service provider in Scotland is seeking an HR Advisor to provide customer-focused HR support. Responsibilities include managing HR caseloads, conducting absence meetings, and offering advice to stakeholders. Ideal candidates should have experience in handling sensitive information, possess excellent organisational skills, and an understanding of the Care Sector. This role plays a vital part in facilitating employee returns to work and tracking absence trends in the organisation.

Qualifications

• Previous experience managing HR processes and working with sensitive information.
• Confident in having challenging conversations and liaising with Occupational Health.
• Strong understanding of absence management policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage HR caseload and ensure adherence to HR policy.
• Conduct short-term absence meetings and support long-term absence cases.
• Report on absence statistics within Regional Management Team meetings.

Skills

Experience with confidential information

Organisational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Start your day knowing you will make a difference!

The Richmond Fellowship Scotland is the leading provider of care services, supporting people with a broad range of needs across Scotland. We are an organisation driven by strong values and a firm commitment to choice, dignity and social inclusion.

The Human Resources function is looking for an HR Advisor, who will work in partnership with operational management to provide professional customer focused HR support.

The HR advisor will manage a caseload ensuring that the organisational HR policy and practice is adhered to. A particular focus of the role will primarily be the management of absence in accordance with the organisation's absence management policy.

This will include but is not limited to: conducting short term absence meetings, supporting with long term absence cases to facilitate a return to work or progress through a medical capability process, liaising with Occupational Health, offering advice to key stakeholders, reporting on absence statistics within Regional Management Team meetings and recognising absence trends.

The post holder will have previous experience working with confidential and sensitive information, be confident in having challenging conversations and preferably have an understanding of the Care Sector. You will have excellent planning, time management and organisational skills as well as the ability to work under pressure to meet d...