HR Advisor

Simplify; St. Ives; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property services firm in St. Ives is seeking an HR Advisor to provide key HR support and manage employee relations cases. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, solid HR knowledge, and experience in managing varied caseloads. This position offers a competitive salary of up to £35,000 and excellent benefits including hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

25 Days' Holiday

Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay

Life Assurance

Retail Discounts

Free On-Site Parking

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing employee relations cases.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office for documentation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Assist People Partners in delivering HR services.
• Manage employee relations casework effectively.
• Support onboarding and probation management.

Skills

Employee relations caseload management

Interpersonal skills

HR and employment law knowledge

Communication skills

IT proficiency (MS Office)

Coaching line managers

Job description

HR ADVISOR

Up to £35,000.00 + excellent benefits

Hybrid - St. Ives, Cambridgeshire/Remote with occasional travel to other UK sites

Are you..

A collaborative and enthusiastic HR professional looking for a fresh challenge in an exciting and dynamic environment? Solid technical HR and employment law knowledge? Confident in all matters ER, with significant and demonstrable experience managing a varied ER caseload? Commutable to St. Ives in Cambridgeshire and willing to spend a couple of days a week on-site? Are you able and willing to attend our other UK offices as required?

We have the role for you!

The HR Advisor (known internally as a People Advisor) plays a pivotal role in the People Team, helping to deliver best in class support to Simplify. Your role provides an invaluable, efficient and effective HR service delivering high-quality operational support, advice, and guidance, including owning a varied caseload of ER activities, advising and coaching line managers on the interpretation of policy and legislation in the context of their responsibilities when managing their teams, as well as assisting with a variety of challenging, generalist HR work aimed at supporting the business to achieve our organisational objectives through our people.

Benefits

Competitive Salary of up to £35,000.00, 25 Days' Holiday (Plus 8 Days' Public Holiday), Option To Buy Or Sell Additional Holiday, Modern Office in Beautiful Surroundings, Free Parking, Life Assurance, Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay, Free Conveyancing Legals, GP-24 Hour Service, Retail Discounts, Free On-Site Parking, Plus Many More!

Key Responsibilities

• To assist the People Partners and Head of People with delivering a proactive professional HR service across the business.
• Act as the first point of contact and owner for all employee relations casework, supporting and upskilling line managers to own the processes and proactive management of their teams.
• Provide a professional advisory and case management service that gives effective solutions to people issues ensuring a balance between the individual and business need.
• Provide support to managers and colleagues on the full colleague lifecycle to include Onboarding, Induction & Probation Management, Employee Wellbeing, Employee Relations, Performance Management, and Change Management.
• Work with the business to identify and address management development areas, creating and delivering engaging solutions to upskill our managers.
• Support the People Team in creating, updating and maintaining all relevant documentation and information, including policies, procedures, guidance documents, standard letters and training material.
• Collaborating with other members in the team and business stakeholders, you will support on creating reports for management information and analytics purposes with relevant HR KPI information.
• Working in partnership with People Partners and People Services Team to help resolve or advise upon HR queries and to escalate any complex issues as necessary.
• Support the wider People Team in the delivery of projects and initiatives.
• Provide full support to the admin team during busy periods.
  
  

Requirements

And now for the nitty gritty.

To be successful in this role you will need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• You will have significant experience of carrying a constant and varied ER caseload.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and can build good working relationships.
• Good technical HR knowledge and employment law, with previous experience of process knowledge on policies and practices.
• Excellent team working skills, including the ability to build effective relationships.
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels of the organisation.
• Good communication skills with the ability to get your message across clearly.
• Understanding of how to effectively handle, resolve and escalate information and issues.
• Excellent delivery-focussed planning and organising skills.
• You’ll be able to prioritise work effectively to varying deadlines and in a changing environment. You’ll be keen to get stuck into any given task.
• Proficient IT skills - including MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint drafting documentation and complex reports.
• Attention to detail and accuracy - ensures facts are correct, complete and consistent.
• Experience of coaching and developing line managers.
• Willing and able to travel to our St. Ives site at least twice weekly, with travel to other sites as and when required.
  
  

OUR HIRING PROCESS:

• You’ve checked out our job ad
• It’s gathered your interest and you’ve applied using our easy application process
• If selected, you come meet our lovely team and we discuss the finer details
• In some cases, we might invite you for a second interview
• If successful, we make the offer and get the ball rolling
• Your friends come on over and you earn a sweet referral bonus - for each one!
  
  

OUR PEOPLE

Simplify believes diversity brings benefits for our clients, our business, and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

About Us

Simplify is the UK’s leading conveyancing and property services business, comprising nine businesses which include some of the largest conveyancing law firms in the UK, two leading independent property services businesses as well as being the market-leading direct to consumer online conveyancer.