Senior HR Advisor

HR Dept; Swindon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HR consultancy in Swindon is seeking a Senior HR Advisor to provide high-quality HR advice and support to clients. You will handle employee relations issues and manage formal HR processes, contributing to a diverse range of clients. The role offers a competitive salary of £35K to £40K and the opportunity for professional development.

Benefits

25 days holiday + BH

Workplace Pension

Free on-site parking

Health Cash Plan Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a range of employee relations casework.
• Experience in leading formal processes, including grievances and disciplinaries.
• Ability to organize own workload to meet targets and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• First point of contact for HR Advice Line service, providing HR advice.
• Managing disciplinary issues, employee grievances, and performance management.
• Creating client policies and procedures to ensure compliance with employment law.

Skills

Expert employment law knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Good MS Office skills

Education

CIPD qualified or equivalent experience

Graduate calibre

Job description

Overview

Location: Swindon, with travel to client sites in London
Reports to: Managing Director
Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including professional development opportunities.
Working Hours: Open to Full Time/Part Time

'HR with a difference'
Join our flexible team at the HR Dept London City and Central, where we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional HR consulting services. We provide high-quality, commercial HR advice and support to a diverse range of clients, helping them navigate complex HR issues with ease. We offer a full HR service offering with a main focus on employee relations issues (disciplines, grievances, redundancies), performance management, recruitment, training, and development.

Purpose of the role:
The Senior HR Advisor is the first point of contact for HR Dept clients. You will be responsible for providing high quality and commercial HR advice and support to clients and navigating through HR processes to provide solutions to people problems. You will also be responsible for undertaking client project work as required.

Main responsibilities:

• HR Service Delivery:

• First point of contact for the HR Advice Line service, ensuring accurate, timely and commercial HR advice and support for clients.
• Providing advice to clients on all aspects of HR, particularly employee relations matters, over the telephone and via email.
• Advising and managing on behalf of clients' disciplinary issues, employee grievances, performance management, redundancies, and TUPE
• Creating and issuing documents that supports the specialist advice provided to clients.
• Delivering project work including staff surveys, salary benchmarking and managing client appraisals
• Leading with on-site with redundancy programs and employee relations issues.
• Chair or support formal meetings with clients, including grievances, disciplinaries and appeals.
• Supporting and delivering training to clients, helping to develop and prepare training materials.
• Creating and updating client policies, procedures, and handbooks to ensure compliance with employment law and good HR practice.

• Business Relations and Development:

• Identifying new business opportunities with existing clients (such as recruitment, additional project or site work, pulse, and staff surveys).
• Attending new client meetings and delivering the new client onboarding process.

Who are we looking for?
Our people are exceptional HR & Recruitment professionals, with expert employment law knowledge. They also demonstrate a high degree of commercial awareness and an understanding of how HR fits with our client's commercial needs.

Candidate Requirements:

• CIPD qualified/working towards, or equivalent experience
• Excellent and up to date UK employment law knowledge
• Experience in managing a range of ER casework
• Experience in leading formal processes, including grievances, disciplinaries and appeals.
• Graduate calibre.
• HR experience over various business sectors is desirable.
• Commercially aware of the needs of small businesses
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to organise own workload to meet targets and deadlines
• Good MS Office skills - Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

Location and Working Hours:
Please note: This role is office based in Swindon, with travel to London.
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary and Other Benefits:

• We offer a competitive salary between £35K and £40k DOE
• 25 days holiday + BH (Full Time Equivilent)
• Workplace Pension
• Free on-site parking
• Health Cash Plan Scheme.

Diversity is key to our success, and we work hard to make sure we're inclusive. We can only accept applications from those who have the right to work in the UK without restrictions