Hr Advisor (21.5 Hours)

Vivid Housing; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 32,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday pro rata

Bonus scheme

Pension 6% match

Life insurance 3x

Private medical

Medicash

Enhanced parental leave

Counselling services

Electric car scheme

Training & mentoring

Job summary

Vivid Housing is seeking a proactive HR Advisor to support line managers with employee relations matters. The role is permanent and part-time (21.5 hours per week), with hybrid working – home-based with regular attendance at Portsmouth or Basingstoke offices as required.

You will advise on Attendance, Disciplinary, Performance Management and Grievance processes, coordinate documentation, and help drive HR projects while supporting a positive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering ER cases and advising managers on employment issues.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and HR policy.
• Ability to work with managers across multiple sites and handle confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic guidance to managers on Attendance, Disciplinary, Performance management and Grievance processes
• Ensure processes and supporting documents are delivered to a high quality
• Manage a large and varied employee relations case load, ensuring cases are resolved quickly and efficiently
• Support managers in solving employee relations issues informally where possible, looking for innovative solutions
• Take an active role in delivering wider HR team strategy, ambitions, and projects
• Coach and support managers to manage effectively, achieving strong teams that deliver departmental and corporate goals

Skills

Employee relations

Advisory skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

We’re VIVID! – We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people! We’re also in Best Companies top 100 companies to work for!

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a dynamic role where you can hit the ground running and make an immediate impact?

We’re looking for a proactive and dedicated HR Advisor to join our team. This role is pivotal in providing commercially focused HR support to managers, and you’ll primarily be managing employee relations cases.

This is a permanent, part-time role working 21.5 hours a week. You’ll need to be available to work on Mondays and Tuesdays, but we can be flexible about the other day or days you work. You’ll be able to work from home, although you’ll usually need to attend our Portsmouth or Basingstoke office several times a week. This will vary depending on what’s happening across the business.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• Annual discretionary company performance-related bonus, rewarding our collective success (pro rata)
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes.

Here’s the facts about the role:

In this role you’ll be the first point of contact, advising our line managers in all employee relations matters, and will be in attendance to advise in disciplinaries, sickness and grievance meetings. You’ll ensure a fair and consistent approach and advise our people on wellbeing support, working practices and terms and conditions. As well as helping us to build better futures for our customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide pragmatic guidance to managers on Attendance, Disciplinary, Performance management and Grievance processes
• Ensure processes and supporting documents are delivered to a high quality
• Manage a large and varied employee relations case load, ensuring cases are resolved quickly and efficiently
• Support managers in solving employee relations issues informally where possible, looking for innovative solutions
• Take an active role in delivering wider HR team strategy, ambitions, and projects
• Coach and support mangers to manage effectively, achieving strong teams that deliver departmental and corporate goals

The type of person we need:

• Demonstrable success in delivering ER cases
• Confident to give advice and voice their views
• Experience in managing a large, varied and complex employee relations case load
• Strong understanding of employment legislation
• Highly organised
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Able to travel between sites in Hampshire

If you want to be part of a fun and supportive team, working together in a fast-paced environment to deliver a great service with the opportunity to make a real impact on how our people are managed, we’d love to hear from you!

Interviews are due to take place 19 November (stage 1) and 26 November (stage 2). Subject to change.