HR Advisor (Employment Strategy)

Cornwall Council; Truro; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Council is seeking an HR Advisor to contribute across Employment Strategy activities within a small, supportive team.

You will assist with trade union consultation, implementing pay awards, developing employment policies and guidance on terms and conditions, and supporting the Council's responsibilities as an employer within local authority pension schemes. This role offers broad exposure to people management disciplines and valuable learning opportunities in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant HR experience and willingness to develop across specialist HR disciplines.
• Understanding of employment law, HR best practice and employee relations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build positive working relationships and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support consultation and negotiation with trade unions and implement pay awards.
• Develop employment policies and guidance.
• Advise on terms and conditions of employment.
• Support employer responsibilities within local authority pension schemes.
• Contribute to Employment Strategy activities.

Skills

HR experience

Employee relations

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Job Description

The Service & Team:

Key Areas Of Responsibility For The Team Include

• Trade union consultation, negotiation and partnership working
• Pay and reward frameworks
• Terms and conditions of employment and collective bargaining
• Employee benefits
• Employment policies and guidance
• Undertaking employer functions regarding local authority pension schemes
• Job evaluation and related processes

The Role

Working within a small and supportive team, the HR Advisor contributes across a range of Employment Strategy activities. This may include supporting consultation and negotiation with trade unions, implementing pay awards, developing employment policies and guidance, advising on terms and conditions, and supporting the Council's responsibilities as an employer within local authority pension schemes.

This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional looking to broaden their experience in strategic and specialist HR. The role offers exposure to a wide range of people management disciplines, providing valuable learning and development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Working Pattern

The role if available full time for five days a week but flexible working arrangements will be considered in conjunction with working arrangements for other team members

What You’ll Need To Succeed

You will be proactive, self-motivated and comfortable managing your workload independently while working collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Can Demonstrate

• Relevant HR experience and a willingness to develop knowledge and expertise across specialist HR disciplines. CIPD study or membership is desirable but not essential.
• An understanding of employment law, HR best practice and employee relations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build positive working relationships and influence stakeholders

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What You’ll Get In Return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Kevin Pearce via email: [e-mail]

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.