HR Advisor

Are you an HR professional looking for a new challenge?

We’re a fast-growing company that puts people first with a fantastic opportunity for a positive, solution focused HR Advisor to join a friendly and supportive HR team.

**What’s in it for you?**

We make sure our employees reap the rewards of their commitment and performance. You will enjoy a secure, supportive, and progressive working environment, where your contribution and achievements will be recognised and rewarded.

We provide full training as well as development and career progression opportunities.

As a HR Advisor, you can look forward to the following benefits:

- Competitive salary up to £35,000 DOE
- Up to 23 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
- Gifted annual leave over the festive period.
- An extra day off on your birthday.
- Buy and sell annual leave.
- Private Health Insurance.
- £600/year cashback for routine optical and dental costs.
- Fully funded gym membership.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Financial advice.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Take a paid day off to volunteer for any charity of your choice.
- Fully expensed social events including nights out and corporate hospitality.
- Relaxed working environment.
- Fully comprehensive training and support to coincide with your personal and professional development.
- Work anniversary & birthday gifts.
- Weekly recognition in our Employee Appreciation Fridays.
- Dress-down Fridays with 3pm early finish.
- Free parking.

In addition to our unrivalled benefits package, you will be part of an award-winning working environment that prioritises your wellbeing and growth.

**About us**:
We are Tritility, a multi award winning, growing commercial energy consultancy based in the Northeast. Working with the UK’s leading energy suppliers, we help businesses to save money on their utilities and reduce their environmental impact. Since our founding in 2019, our team has grown to welcome over 120 employees, and we are interested in great talent looking for career opportunities in the energy sector.

**About the role**:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Developing and building strong and trusted partnerships with managers, providing high quality HR advice and guidance to facilitate the early resolution of difficult, complex, or sensitive employee relations issues. Acting as their sounding board and advisor, intervening and steering in the appropriate direction taking account of company policies, employment law, best practice and precedent. Ensuring that the risks associated with such cases are effectively managed and escalating to the HR Manager where necessary.
- Assisting employees with queries relating to HR policy, process, and best practice.
- Support the management of complex employee cases relating to disciplinary, grievance, conduct, capability, performance management and sickness absence. This includes providing advice to managers on policy/procedure and legislation, liaising with Occupational Health, supporting formal investigations and hearings.
- Contribute to policy development.
- Support learning and development activities across the business, including development and delivery of HR related topics.
- Provide support with the co-ordination and delivery of recruitment and induction initiatives.
- To prepare regular and ad hoc management information reports to support continuous improvement.
- Maintain a broad knowledge of HR best practice.
- Create and maintain a positive team culture, by actively working in collaboration with the wider business.

The role is based from our office in Jarrow, just south of Newcastle, covering our standard working hours of Monday to Thursday: 8:30am-5:00pm, and Friday: 9:00am-3:00pm with no evenings, no weekends, and an early finish every Friday.

**What you’ll bring**:

- CIPD qualification preferred but not essential. It’s more important that you can demonstrate how you can support and help to develop our teams.
- Up to date knowledge of employment legislation and experience interpreting policies, procedures and situations in order to identify pragmatic solutions/recommendations.
- Experience of advising and supporting managers on a range of employee relations matters to an appropriate conclusion.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Word and Excel).
- Excellent communication skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to persuade, influence and, when appropriate, challenge with tact and diplomacy.
- Ability to work autonomously, multi-task, prioritise and meet deadlines with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- A ‘can do’ outcome focused attitude and approach, resourceful and works to make things happen whilst inspiring others to do the same.
- Experience of dealing with matters confidentially and sensitively with a sound knowledge of General Data Protection Regulation.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
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