People Experience Specialist

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Slater Heelis Full time

Slater Heelis is a leading full-service law firm with a rich history of providing exceptional legal services to clients across the UK.

Based in Manchester, we are known for our client-centric approach, professional integrity, and a commitment to excellence.

We do things a bit differently at Slater Heelis. We are a law firm steeped in rich history, priding ourselves on our long-standing reputation, experience and expertise. Having recently joined the Lawfront Group, we are on a mission to become a leading regional law firm within a top 40 national Law Firm.

Lawfront’s vision is to build a high-quality, national business dedicated to its people and retaining the very best in the profession to provide the very best possible service to clients, whilst backing its regional firms to achieve their growth ambitions through investment in people, technology, cross-group collaboration and further local acquisitions, with the support of a highly experienced central team.

Our colleagues are some of the very best in the profession and we are on the search for new people as we continue to expand and grow.

Are you passionate about creating exceptional people experiences and do you want to make a real impact? We are seeking a People Experience Specialist to join a dynamic and progressive People Team.

Job Title: People Experience Specialist

Location: Sale and Manchester, presence across both office spaces with the opportunity to work flexibly

Hours: 35 pw

Reporting to: Head of People and Culture

Salary: Competitive - we can share and discuss our salary bandings with you during the recruitment process

Start date: As soon as you can

More information: Careers page or ask Peter Murphy (Sourcing and Selection Manager) - peter.murphy@lawfront.com

The Challenge

The People Experience Specialist will play a key role in building, developing and enhancing a seamless and engaging people experience at Slater Heelis. This is a specialist role that will be delivering across a broad portfolio of people activity, actively contributing to and delivering high-impact projects and initiatives at as we target further growth.

This role will be instrumental in supporting our leaders and teams, shaping our evolving culture, developing an environment of continuous improvement where our teams thrive and achieve lasting success and high performance.

  • Ideate, co-create and execute on key work streams and projects, designing and shipping products within the People Roadmap across Lawfront autonomously and collaboratively.
  • Act as a change agent, designing, delivering and embedding change initiatives across the whole employee lifecycle.
  • Recognise that not all employees are the same, customising to the unique needs of different employee segments.
  • Process optimisation - evaluate, streamline and enhance people processes and initiatives to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and employee satisfaction.
  • Upskilling, coaching and developing our people leaders.
  • Advise on different people programs/products, designing employee comms.
  • People operations – manage people operations at all stages of the employee lifecycle within designated functional areas.
  • Partner with leaders on employee relations matters, driving solutions and collaboration, keeping up to date with Employment Law (UK).
  • Provide support in the development and updating of people policies and procedures.

Day to day this might look like -

You'll lead on different areas of people experience at Slater Heelis, for example -

Learning and Development

  • Assess training needs, co-creating and design learning and development experiences to support career development. Evaluating and iterating.
  • Coordinate and facilitate workshops, training sessions, and e-learning opportunities.

Onboarding

  • Co-creating and managing a comprehensive onboarding program to ensure a smooth and welcoming transition for new hires.
  • Complete necessary onboarding checks, send out offers and employment contracts, coordinate onboarding schedules, orientation training and periods.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

  • Collaborating with the DIB Committee and firm leadership to ensure diversity and inclusion initiatives align with company goals.
  • Organise and deliver training and awareness programs on diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Wellbeing

  • Co-creating, developing and implementing deliberate wellbeing programs that promote physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
  • Conduct and support wellbeing meetings and programs, liaising with health practitioners and external partners where necessary.

This role is for you if:

  • You have experience in delivering human-centred people programs/initiatives - building creative solutions from idea to reality.
  • You thrive in the grey, in a scaling, high-growth environment and have strong project management and change management experience.
  • You show awareness and understanding of people experience principles such as design thinking, agile HR and human centred design.
  • You’re a driver of personal development and growth, seeking out scaffolding opportunities.
  • You have a strong working knowledge of UK employment law.
  • Problem solving comes natural to you. You’re also agile, resilient, empathetic, humble, self-aware and highly organised.
  • You’re an excellent communicator and natural influencer - you instil trust, you build relationships quickly and take a collaborate approach to strong stakeholder engagement.
  • You have strong technology & digital literacy – you have hands on tech experience optimising digital solution platforms and tools.

Why join us?

In addition to getting the opportunity to work with exceptionally talented people, being a part of a fast-growing business with huge ambition across Lawfront, and being a great place to work, we have a range of benefits.

To apply

Please send a copy of your CV by clicking the link below. In addition, on your CV we'd like you to include a short paragraph - c.250 words - on "What does excellent people experience look like to you?".

Please send as one document as most job boards will not allow a cover letter to be added.

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