HR Advisor

**Key Objective**
- To contribute to the delivery of the Workforce and OD strategy supporting projects where required.
- To contribute to the development of the HR team, through sharing expertise, and best practice and participating in team development
- To contribute to the regular review and revision of HR policies.

**Responsibilities**
- Advising Management and Employees on a variety of employment issues including, but not limited to, performance management, absence management and support, disciplinary issues, capability and other employee issues.
- Develop the skills and knowledge of managers to manage the high performance of their teams.
- To lead projects and activities associated with the Workforce and OD strategy.
- Providing advice on Employment Law, National and Local Conditions of Service and the Council’s Human Resources policies.
- To advise on safeguarding issues and support investigations regarding allegations against staff.
- To advise and support with succession planning and JD/PS content, assisting managers to develop appropriate descriptors which reflect the roles responsibility, accountability and impact to achieve the grade required within budget and in-line with BFC scalesand grading.
- To contribute to the departments job evaluation and job matching activity, including leading weekly evaluation panels and feeding back outcomes to managers.
- To contribute to and facilitate training and development sessions and workshops on a variety human resource and manager development topics.
- Advising on contractual changes/terms and conditions, TUPE support, including liaison with payroll section as required.
- Provide advice and support with organisational change planning and implementation, including redundancy, severance calculations and redeployment support.
- Liaise with pension scheme on pension quotes for capital cost and employee pension quotes and death in service payments.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Skills and qualifications**

**Essential**

Graduate Member CIPD/Level 5 CIPD or equivalent relevant experience.

**Desirable**

Coaching/Training qualification

CIPD Level 7.

**Competence Summary**

(Knowledge, abilities, skills, experience)

Significant experience in generalist HR services.

Demonstratable employment law knowledge and extensive experience of advising managers on Human Resources issues.

A general and broad understanding of organisational development change and transformation in organisations.

Experience of facilitating, presenting, and delivering training information sessions.

Experience of working with trade unions or other employee representatives.

Excellent planning, organisation skills and ability to prioritise own workload with the ability to adapt to unforeseen issues.

Competent user of Microsoft Office packages.

Understanding of and commitment to the requirements of safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

Experience of HR in Local Government environment.

Experience of working in organisational development, change management and or learning and development.

Experience of leading HR and or OD related projects and activities.

Safeguarding knowledge and safer recruitment awareness.

**Work-related Personal Requirements**

Clear communication skills with employees at all levels with good emotional intelligence, calm and diplomatic assertive manner.

Resilient and flexible approach to work and to change; and the ability to work in a busy and demanding environment supporting complex and challenging staffing issues.

Approachable; able to influence and negotiate with a range of stakeholders and good customer care skills.

Accuracy and great attention to detail.

Thorough understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.

**Other Work Requirements**

Ability and willingness to travel throughout the Borough as and when necessary.

**Role models and**

**demonstrates the**

**Council’s values and**

**behaviours**

Our values define who we are. They outline what is important to us. They influence the way we work with each other and the way we serve our residents and engage with our communities.

We make our values real by demonstrating them in how we behave every day.