HR Advisor

The Portfolio Group

Lancashire

On-site

GBP 30,000 - 40,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Birthday day off

Pension plan

Onsite gym

Life insurance

And more

Job summary

The Portfolio Group is seeking an HR Advisor to join a global HR consultancy, delivering services via platforms like Microsoft Teams. You will support clients in handling formal meetings, investigations, and settlement negotiations, onsite in Manchester. The role is permanent with a salary around £35K plus benefits.

Ideal candidates will have a degree in HR or law, strong client-service focus, and excellent communication skills to produce compliant, well-written reports for diverse client needs.

Qualifications

Degree level in HR, law or related discipline
Customer service experience
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to respond to short-notice assignments
Impartiality and risk communication to clients

Responsibilities

Attend client meetings and diarised meetings, conduct or support as required
Undertake mediation, conciliation and other employment relations services
Provide advice on employees' legal position with impartiality
Provide prompt, high-quality reports within specified time frames
Aim to meet hearing targets and drive repeat business

Skills

HR/Law degree

Customer service

Written & verbal comms

Client-focused

Positive attitude

Education

Degree in HR or law

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Job description

HR Advisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a global business as HR Consultant. This business is a leading HR Consultancy, who are looking for a HR expert to deliver service via platforms such as Microsoft Teams in order to support 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. You will join them onsite five days a week in vibrant office in Manchester City. This is a permanent role that offers £35K + benefits.

Job Purpose

We are looking for personable and confident HR professionals/employment lawyers 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 relevant experience in employment law or an employee relations-focused HR role.
Customer service experience.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, delivering technical information and commercial advice as well as empathy to clients, and provide outstanding attention to detail.
Strongly focussed on delivering an excellent client experience at all stages.
A positive approach in a fast-moving, busy team environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone wants to grow within the business and gain HR exposure to progress in their HR career. Interviews will be one stage and will be onsite. The company offers 25 days holiday + bank holidays, birthday day off, pension plan, onsite gym and life insurance, and more.