HR Advisor

Optimum Recruitment Group Limited; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Recruitment Group is working with a leading, fast-paced service provider on the outskirts of York and are creating an HR Advisor role to support the Head of HR. You will be an experienced HR generalist with a strong track record in handling employee relations, policies, and HR processes in a 250-500 employee environment, working office-based and offering a modern, flexible benefits package.

You'll advise managers on ER matters, manage absence, and help design policy updates while

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practices.
• Proven ability to handle ER cases independently, including sensitive matters.
• Confident in influencing and partnering with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficiency with Dayforce HRIS is preferred.
• Excellent organisational skills in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Advise and support managers on complex employee relations matters including performance management, disciplinaries, investigations, and absence management.
• Manage short- and long-term absence cases, including Occupational Health referrals.
• Attend and support employee relations meetings and hearings ensuring fairness and policy compliance.
• Produce accurate documentation, including meeting notes and outcome letters.
• Create, review and update HR policies to ensure legal compliance and alignment with best practice.
• Support the communication and embedding of HR policies across the business.
• Identify opportunities to streamline HR processes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Deliver training sessions to build manager capability in handling people matters.

Skills

HR generalist

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

HR policies

Education

CIPD Level 5

Tools

Dayforce HRIS

Job description

Optimum Recruitment Group is proud to be working for this leading, fast paced service provider, based on the outskirts of York, who are looking to extend their highly successful and talented HR team and appoint to a newly created opportunity of HR Advisor.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join the business during an exciting period of growth therefore, a high energy HR Advisor is required to support the Head of HR. You will be an experienced HR generalist with a fantastic track record in handling employee relations cases. You will have experience working in a similar office-based sector and within a similar-sized organisation (250-500 people) in a role that has a broad level of responsibility.

You will be responsible for:

• Advising and supporting managers on complex employee relations matters, including performance management, disciplinaries (up to and including dismissal), investigations, probation reviews and absence management.
• Managing short- and long-term absence cases, including Occupational Health referrals and interpretation of recommendations.
• Attending and supporting employee relations meetings and hearings, ensuring fairness, consistency and policy compliance.
• Producing accurate documentation, including meeting notes and outcome letters.
• Creating, reviewing and updating HR policies to ensure legal compliance and alignment with best practice.
• Supporting the communication and effective embedding of HR policies and processes across the business.
• Identifying opportunities to improve and streamline HR processes, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Delivering training sessions and workshops to build manager capability and confidence in handling people matters.
• Providing coaching and guidance to managers on HR policies and employee issues.
• Supporting wider HR operations, including onboarding, engagement initiatives, annual HR processes and organisational change activity.
• Maintaining accurate and confidential employee records in line with data protection requirements.

You must have the following to be considered for the role:

• CIPD Level 5 qualified.
• Have strong and up-to-date knowledge of employment law.
• Have strong knowledge of HR best practices.
• Have a proven ability to manage ER cases independently, including complex and sensitive matters.
• Confident in influencing and partnering with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficiency with HRIS (preferably Dayforce).
• Have strong organisational skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

The salary banding is up to £40k plus the organisation offers an extremely modern and flexible working environment with a generous benefits package.