People Advisor

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated HR professional to deliver exceptional HR advice throughout the employee lifecycle. This role involves coaching and supporting managers while ensuring compliance with policies and employment laws. You will manage employee relations cases, conduct investigations, and provide training to enhance the skills of line managers. The company offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will help shape HR practices and support the workforce effectively. Join a team committed to excellence in human resources and make a meaningful impact on employee engagement and organizational success.

Benefits

34 days paid leave

2 x Life Days

4 x Salary of Life Insurance

Pension contribution of 8.5%

BUPA

£500 wellness allowance

Income Protection

Qualifications

• Experience in providing ER advice on the employee lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of HR legislation and principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide first line HR support to managers and employees.
• Advise on employee relations cases and manage ER tracker.
• Support in training managers on employee relations skills.

Skills

Employee Relations Advice

Investigation and Disciplinary Meetings

Generalist HR Knowledge

Microsoft Office Applications

Education

CIPD Qualification

Tools

HR Systems

Advanced Excel

Google Docs

Job description

To deliver HR advice to employees and managers in relation to all aspects of the employee lifecycle, providing the highest quality HR service through coaching, guiding, supporting, training and advising line managers and colleagues, ensuring compliance with policies, employment law and regulations with consideration to risk and commercial management.

Role Responsibilities:

• Provide first line support to the business - including managers and colleagues - on all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Managing the People Partner inbox and escalating issues as necessary.
• Advise managers on employee relations cases, including sickness absence, bullying and harassment allegations and grievances, disciplinaries, performance management, misconduct cases, and family friendly policies, providing policy guidance to line managers, supporting them in decision making.
• Support with any vetting issues that escalate and require further investigation.
• Own and update the ER tracker on a regular basis to report on all ER cases.
• Support in the production of content for employee relations skills training and delivery of workshops/training to upskill managers on technical ER skills, as appropriate.
• Support in updating HR policies as appropriate, ensuring all legislative updates are reflected and benchmark other comparable companies' policy offerings, making recommendations to the People Business Partner (PBP) team on how Camelot can remain competitive on non-statutory policy provisions.
• Produce ad hoc MI reports as required.
• Managing long term sick cases and ensuring support is being provided to assist the employee returning to work.
• Support managers with Occupational Health referrals, ensuring all data submitted is timely, accurate, balanced and that feasibility of adjustments/ recommendations are appropriately considered.
• Liaise with our Occupational Health provider on all cases relating to Group Income Protection and provide regular progress updates to the PBP team.
• Provide administrative support for organisational change projects and ER case work, for example note taking in formal meetings.
• Provide advice and guidance to line managers on small-scale team changes.
• Work with Reward to benchmark new roles, assessing levels of responsibility and pay grades.
• Partner closely with the People Operations team on a range of HR Admin processes such as overpayments, leaver details, sickness data and redundancy estimates, ensuring accurate data is recorded and communication is managed effectively with colleagues and managers.
• Coaching managers on having difficult conversations, and act as a trusted advisor on decision making across a range of workplace issues.
• Assist in any ad hoc duties, projects and activities as and when required.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in providing ER advice and information to employees and line managers on all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Proven experience conducting investigation and disciplinary meetings.
• Strong understanding of generalist HR including employee relations, employment legislation, reward principles, recruitment and learning and development.
• Previous experience of HR systems.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office applications including Word, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Google Docs sufficiently enough to analyse data, produce letters, reports, processes, spreadsheets and presentations.
• CIPD accredited or working towards CIPD qualification.

Benefits:

• 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: We'll contribute 8.5%
• BUPA
• £500 wellness allowance
• Income Protection

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Human Resources

Industries

Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education