HR Advisor

**HR Advisor**

The Protective Care Group was established to provide bespoke, tailor-made support for young people with severe and complex needs, particularly those exhibiting highly challenging behaviour. We specialise in providing a level of support that local authorities are often unable to; support that makes a real difference to somebody’s quality of life and future prospects. It means everything to us.

We care deeply about those in our care and the quality of the services we provide, but we’re also very ambitious and growing quickly across the UK. We’ll double our head-count in the next 12 months, then again the year after, so we can care for more young people.

**HR Advisor**

We’ve grown quickly but, through sensible investment, we already have superb HR, Welfare, L&D and Recruitment teams in place, but we’ve still got so much we want to achieve. You’ll play such a crucial part in our development, growing your role meanwhile. We’ll work closely to help you achieve your next step. Our growth means you’ll have lots of opportunity to grow your career with us.

To support our growth, now’s the time for an engaging, experienced, and proactive HR Advisor to join the team. Aligned with our Regional Leads and working alongside our HR Team based in Gloucestershire, you’ll head up HR and ER in the North East of England with support from our administrative and welfare specialists.

**As a true partner to our people**:

- Be the best you can be, be yourself, have fun, collaborate, and remember to set time aside for personal development; we want you and your role to grow

**Some of the headlines**:

- Help others rise to their best by coaching, advising, and supporting a team of regional and team managers on core people topics including development, performance, engagement, absence management, change facilitation and leadership. You’ll help us get better and better at what we do.
- Managing a case-load of complex ER cases, providing guidance and practical support to our team of Managers, supporting them through a range of HR interventions and processes.
- Facilitating and often leading with mediation, disciplinary and grievance proceedings in a kind, considerate but effective way.
- Initially supporting managers with developing their 1-2-1 and employee appraisal skills.
- Helping to identify future talent and work in support of promotions and job role changes.

**Requirements**:
**About you**:
We’re a collaborative, busy bunch and we have lots of fun, but we get the job done. The most important thing we’re looking for is someone who grasps ‘why’ we do what we do and who wants to make a real difference to others’ lives.

You’ll have solid experience at HR or ER Advisor level and be level 5 CIPD qualified, or equivalent by experience. We employ an entrepreneurial style over corporate red-tape (we work hard to avoid that) so you’ll be able work at pace, communicate with clarity, think creatively, and think ahead. As we grow, things will change, so be ready to roll your sleeves up and get involved with what needs to be done.

**Benefits**

**What we can offer**:
In addition to a competitive starting salary in the region of £38,000 to £42,000 p.a. (depending on experience), you’ll receive:

- Company pension scheme to which you can increase contributions and transfer other pensions
- Personalised onboarding and induction support; we’ll stick with you as you join and get up and running
- Group, team and on-line training and annual refresher training
- Paid holiday allowance, enhanced with long service (we’ll honour unpaid leave if you run out of allowance)
- Paid compassionate leave
- Active and generous ‘refer a friend’ bonus scheme
- Have your birthday off
- Company sick pay
- Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme - for work and personal support
- Internal confidential Welfare & Wellbeing support
- Voucher reward scheme for improvement suggestions that we action
- Tailored self-development planning
- Hybrid working (depending on the requirements of the role)