HR Advisor

You’ll need to be highly organised, effective at time management and have a can do attitude, with the ability to communicate with managers and employees at all levels and be able to advise on HR issues.

Pavers has been trading for over 50 years and is a highly profitable family owned-and-run retail business with a strong balance sheet, over 170 retail locations, and a rapidly expanding digital presence. We also own the Jones Bootmaker and Herring Shoesfootwear businesses, remain acquisitive, and employ over 1700 people. We were recently recognised by Best Companies as one of the UK’s Top 10 Retail Employers, are Carbon Neutral, have donated more than £1m to charity in the past 3 years, are currently applyingfor B Corp accreditation, and are imminently undertaking a significant expansion and modernisation of our Warehouse, Head Office, and Retail estates. We have just signed up to becoming a Menopause Friendly employer and this will be a great accreditation thatthe whole HR Team will support working towards

**Main responsibilities of our HR Advisor**:

- Build and maintain colleague and stakeholder relationships
- Providing support and advice to managers and employees on generalist HR issues including disciplinary & grievance, absence management, policies and procedures and performance management
- Coaching managers through HR processes to develop their knowledge and confidence in dealing with people queries
- Co-ordination of absence management policy including occupational health referrals, long term absence and capability meetings
- Collating and analysing data to provide meaningful reports for business leaders
- Supporting contractual changes across the business
- Conducting exit interviews to gain insight into reasons for leaving
- Supporting the wider HR Team with ad-hoc projects
- Supporting managers with note taking at high level disciplinary and grievance hearings
- HR administration including the maintenance of our HR database, Cascade
- Managing HR Mailboxes including written and verbal correspondence
- Processing new starters, leavers and changes
- Maintaining employee records
- Any other HR related tasks

**Requirements for HR Advisor**:

- Experience within a busy HR role or recent graduate in a relevant area of study
- CIPD Level 3 qualified (or working towards) or equivalent experience or keen to complete
- Ability to engage with employees and managers at all levels
- Good organisational skills
- Able to use own initiative and prioritise workload
- Strong IT skills including use of HR databases and Excel
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Great customer service
- Attention to detail

**Benefits/Package you will receive as our HR Advisor**:
Salary £22,000 to £26,000 per annum depending on experience plus:

- Flexible/Hybrid Working - core hours are 9.30am-3.30pm
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Generous Staff Discount
- Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
- Company Contribution Pension
- Access to RetailTRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support)
- Access to Pavers Academy for learning and development orrortunities

**About Us**

We are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environmentfor them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers. We always try and do the right thing by our people.

We strive for diversity of thinking across the business and believe strongly in supporting our local communities. In 2018 we donated over £2.2m to establish the Pavers Foundation, with the specific purpose of providing grants for causes important to allour colleagues in the areas of health, education, and community. In terms of the environment, we are constantly seeking to reduce our impact. Since 2021 we have been fully carbon neutral, and we also have one of the largest solar arrays in the North-East ofEngland on our warehouse generating clean energy. Because every year we give a percentage of our annual profits to our Foundation, our overarching aim is to be financially successful, but to achieve this in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.