HR Advisor

**LOCATION**:Split between: Home (40%), Monmouth (50%),

Southampton/Other (10%)

**RESPONSIBLE TO**:HR Operations Manager

**JOB PURPOSE**:
HR Adviser based in Monmouth 50% of time working at Monmouth.

Working from home (40%) and in other locations (10%).

To provide an effective Human Resources Adviser service in an efficient, professional, effective and timely manner

Establish a good understanding of the businesses and activities to develop effective working relationships with Managers and Employees to deliver business-risk-assessed, pragmatic & compliant advice and support aligned with company culture.

Develop commercial knowledge of the business environment to provide appropriate challenge to the management teams and become a key contributor to the business’s decision making process.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**HR ADVISER**

1. Interact and work collaboratively with Managers from all levels including the Executive Leadership Team and Senior Leadership Team providing comprehensive & timely advice and guidance on all ER issues and influencing them in order to build their knowledge and capability to make conscious, business-risk-assessed decisions. In particular provide coaching and guidance on performance management, disciplinaries, absence and grievances.

2. Provide expert advice in all areas of HR policy, best practice, procedures and benefits to managers and employees in a timely & professional manner

3. Provide employment law guidance - statute & case law - taking into account company precedents ensuring the business executes it’s legal duties diligently.

4. Project manage organisation changes resulting from strategic initiatives including but not limited to reorganisations and restructures; redundancies; TUPE

5. Investigate and resolve complex queries requiring business knowledge and face to face handling.

6. Critically assess the level of capability of managers and work with them to upskill on all management issues including career discussions, performance management, absence management, and employee relations issues.

7. Support Managers to develop their teams, raising the bar of capability across all areas.

8. Work with L&D to develop internal training material to support Line Managers with Employee Relations issues.

9. Identify current and future critical roles and deliver succession planning for client group.

10. Work with the Recruitment and Management teams to critically assess levels of resource for client group. Provide advice and support on all recruitment issues including job description writing.

11. Work closely with the HR Coordinator to ensure they are able to provide basic employment law information and efficiently action tasks within Advice & Guidance ensuring SLA’s are adhered to.

12. Analyse data and produce KPI’s and reports as required. Use this information to support business cases, propose improvements and identify areas for investigation.

13. Working collaboratively with the Company’s Employment Solicitors support on Employment Tribunal Claims and putting together bundles as and when needed.

**HR PROJECTS ADVISER RESPONSIBILITIES**

1. Manage, lead and/or contribute to HR projects of varying sizes and complexities.

2. Work in collaboration with the HR team and other stakeholders to deliver all projects to deadline, ensure all HR projects enhance the HR value proposition and can be delivered within resource constraints.

3. Update/create HR policies & processes to reflect legislative changes and ensure compliance, including creating template forms, letters, agenda to deliver a complete way of working for each HR process flow.

4. Research, write and deliver policies, processes and documentation on managing absence, capability, discipline & grievance. Write and deliver appropriate training for People Managers on these topics to include statute, case law and real life examples to illustrate what being trained.

5. Deliver a project to manage International Assignments both UK to overseas and purely overseas.

6. Define and deliver the HR communications plan to the Group.

The role will require travel to some regional locations which may necessitate some overnight stays on an occasional basis as commercial activities require.

This role is open to hybrid working (i.e. working from home and in the office) pattern

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**:
**Essential**:

- Educated to degree Standard or equivalent
- CIPD Level 5 ideally including the Employment Law module
- Demonstrable experience of initiating and collaboratively delivering HR projects on time to cost and quality
- Experience of writing and delivering HR training courses for People Managers on absence, grievance, discipline capability, to include statute, case law and real life examples to illustrate what being trained
- Proven experience of excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability of managing key relationships and influencing outcomes when/where needed
- Great interpersonal