People & HR Advisor — Childcare Wellbeing Champion

Kids Planet Day Nurseries Ltd.; Broomedge; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free breakfast, lunches and healthy sn

Accredited training with the KPAcademy

Enhanced Maternity, Paternity Fertilty

Regular staff rewards

Team appreciation events

Long service awards

Dedicated wellbeing package

Highly discounted childcare

A day off for your birthday

Pension plan

Annual leave including bank holidays

Monday to Friday

Job summary

Kids Planet Day Nurseries Ltd. is seeking a People (HR) Advisor to join our field-based HR team in the South region, supporting day-to-day operational people matters and helping ensure compliant, safe, and productive settings across our nurseries.

You will work closely with the HR Business Partner and wider People team, provide coaching to managers, manage casework, and contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and staff development while travelling to Central Support once a month for team meetings.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years HR generalist experience.
• Collaborative and engaging approach and ability to work as part of a team.
• Experience of producing accurate employment documentation and correspondence.
• Ability to work appropriately with confidential and sensitive information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact for people queries and casework management through the employee life cycle by providing advice and coaching to managers, ensuring legislation, process and policy is followed.
• Supporting with conducting investigations and advise line through investigation, disciplinary and grievance processes.
• Advise line managers on probationary review and performance management processes.
• Assist managers in effective and supportive management of short term and long-term absences.
• Act as a wellbeing champion and a key point of HR contact in the respective region for mental health and wellbeing support.
• Deliver training modules for existing and new managers.
• Support Leadership and HR Business Partners on all HR and Business lead projects engaging stakeholders to achieve People Strategy objectives.
• Working with the recruitment team in actioning recruitment and on-boarding processes to ensure settings are operating at required ratios, attracting, managing talent and succession planning for enhanced staff development and business results.
• Maintain HR systems, employee records and data for effective reporting across the designated region.
• Research and develop a resource hub of relevant training, guidance, manuals for both employees and managers.
• Support HR Business Partners with TUPE activities.
• Support the wider HR team with the administration of the monthly payroll process and employee payroll queries.
• Update systems and maintain personal records for all staff and casework.

Skills

HR Generalist experience

Communication skills

Confidentiality handling

Team player

Education

CIPD Level 5

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Kids Planet Day Nurseries Ltd. is seeking a People (HR) Advisor to join our field-based HR team in the South region, supporting day-to-day operational people matters and helping ensure compliant, safe, and productive settings across our nurseries.

You will work closely with the HR Business Partner and wider People team, provide coaching to managers, manage casework, and contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and staff development while travelling to Central Support once a month for team meetings.