HR Advisor

Arco: Experts In Safety; Hull and East Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and safety company in the UK is seeking an experienced HR Advisor to join their People & Culture team for a maternity cover role. This hybrid position requires a professional with a CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent, providing HR policy advice, managing employee relations, and supporting the overall HR strategy. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits including holiday and pension contributions, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a dynamic working environment.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary plus bonus

32 days holiday plus purchase options

Paid Community Volunteering days

Excellent pension contributions

Cost of living discounts

24-hour Employee Assistance Programme

Health Cash Plan

Learning Management System access

Long-term service awards

Qualifications

• Professional qualification of CIPD Level 5 or equivalent is desirable.
• Experience of providing HR advice and correspondence with in-depth legal knowledge.
• Experience in a confidential environment and providing HR and ER advice.
• Knowledge of HR Policies, procedures, and systems.
• Highly focused on customer service with excellent service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage employee relations casework and provide advisory services.
• Coach line managers on complex ER matters.
• Review documentation and ensure legal compliance.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and support HR strategy.

Skills

Generalist HR advice

Customer service focus

Confidentiality

HR Policies knowledge

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Job description

About The Role

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives on managing ER casework? We're currently recruiting for an experienced HR Advisor to join our People & Culture team here at Arco on a maternity cover basis.

The HR Advisor will strive to improve employee relations across the business providing specialist employee relations advice and guidance on the management of employee relation cases and polices, whilst maintaining knowledge of the business, HR trends and employment legislation.

The role is a hybrid position with a mix of office working from our Head Office in Hull and home working, and we are open to considering both full time and part time applicants for this role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing a professional front-line advisory service that supports employees and managers with HR policy, process and system queries, aiming to resolve as many at first point of contact as possible
• Analysing confidential and sometimes complex information sources to make sound judgements on owned ER cases (disciplinary, performance, grievance and absence), providing advice, counsel and resolutions to managers in order to ensure legal compliance and mitigate business risks with minimal escalation
• Coaching line managers on complex ER matters, acting as a trusted Advisor to stakeholders to resolve employee issues and build management capability
• Reviewing documentation including occupational health referrals, disciplinary investigations and performance improvement plans
• Applying a commercial mindset to advice given, providing pragmatic solutions, while ensuring that an appropriate risk radar is applied to review any potential challenge including legal and regulatory
• Building good working relationships and communicating effectively with all key stakeholders, including the HRBP team, people managers and colleagues
• Supporting the wider HR team in delivery of the overall HR strategy and key business projects
• Providing training sessions to managers across the business on HR policy and processes e.g. absence and performance management training
• Ensuring employment policies and decisions are applied consistently across the business

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

• A competitive starting salary plus bonus
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays which rises with service, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days each calendar year
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme
• A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About You

The ideal HR Advisor will be/have:

• A professional qualification of CIPD Level 5 or equivalent is desirable
• Knowledge and experience of providing generalist HR advice and correspondence with an in-depth knowledge on adherence to current legislation to ensure legal compliance
• Experience of working in a confidential environment and providing specialist/ generalist HR and ER advice to colleagues and Line Managers with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of HR Policies, procedures and systems
• Highly focused on customer service with demonstrable understanding of excellent service delivery
• Experience in Excel, PowerPoint, Word and SharePoint

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.