HR Advisor

JGA Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an HR Advisor to work in West Drayton, London, on a temporary basis. You will act as the primary HR point of contact, providing support and advice to managers on HR policies, leading recruitment efforts, and ensuring compliance with best practices. Ideal candidates should have experience in commercial HR environments, strong people skills, and ideally be CIPD qualified or pursuing certification. The role offers up to £190 per day with a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the main HR contact for managers.
• Advise on HR policies and processes.
• Support HR activities such as salary reviews and performance evaluations.
• Ensure training plans are established.
• Assist managers with complex HR issues.
• Coordinate HR strategy implementation.
• Expedite recruitment processes.
• Provide support on change processes.
• Work with HRIS for data requirements.

Skills

Experience supporting managers

Experience in commercial organisations

Knowledge of HR best practices

Excellent people skills

Detail-oriented

Ability to meet deadlines

Education

CIPD or working towards it

Job description

Title: HR Advisor

Location: West Drayton, London - 4 days a week on site, 1 from home

Salary: Up to £190 per day to candidate or £20 per hour

Contract: Temporary - 6 months

Start date: January 5th

Position Responsibilities

• Acting as the point of contact for managers for HR for the agreed area
• Advising operational managers on HR policies and people matters. Work with them to improve their confidence & capability in leading their teams. Provide commercially sound advice and guidance and ensure managers act in line with current legislation
• Support on all HR activity (Salary Reviews, Training, Recruitment, performance reviews etc. in conjunction with HRSS/L&D/TA)
• Ensure departmental training plans in place for functional and mandatory training in conjunction with Learning Advisor, HSE manager and operational lead
• Advise on processes
• Ensure line managers are equipped to handle investigations, including grievance and disciplinary
• Support managers with complex ER issues in conjunction with HRBP and technical experts. Keep the ER tracker up to date at all times
• Working as part of a wider HR team looking to deliver People strategy and continuous improvement including flagging themes or trends to other HR colleagues and operational leaders
• Reviewing and updating job descriptions with managers to ensure performance against the expectations in the role. Ensure changes are reflected in CC via HRSS
• Expedite recruitment when required and conversion of temps to perm
• Providing advice, coaching and support on change processes
• Using HR information systems as required and work with managers on data from reports on absence to agree outcomes. Suggesting new HRIS/MF improvements
• Identifying development needs and liaise with HRBP and L&D
• Assisting in organising colleague engagement activities
• Weekly update catch‑up with Ops managers in order to check in on people issues, including wellbeing of manager, maintain sickness cases including pay decisions (from sickness report) and ensuring payroll
• Directing managers to right channels such HRSS for HRSS queries, Payroll for Pay queries etc
• Reporting any issues related to managers pay challenges to HRSS Lead/ Payroll
• Supporting Regional and Global cyclical HR items as required, working collaboratively with all parts of the wider HR team on successful delivery

Knowledge, Skills & Expertise

• Demonstrates experience and skills to support managers in building capability of their teams
• Experience in commercial organisations of providing advice, coaching and support
• Knowledge and experience of HR best practice
• Increases diversity and develop a culture of belonging where people enjoy their work
• Leads by example by demonstrating the SPIRIT values
• Excellent people skills with ability to build trusting relationships
• Detail conscious and accurate with a continuous improvement mindset
• Meets deadlines

Required Qualifications / Education

• CIPD or working towards It ideal