HR Adviser

**HR Adviser**
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**Job Number**:
**23000253**
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HR & OD

Grade 7: - £35,333 - £42,155 per annum (pro rata)

Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time

**Contracted Hours per Week***: 35

**Working Arrangements***: Full-time post, but willing to consider part-time/job share requests

**Closing Date***: 09-Mar-2023, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***: Not Applicable.

**The University**

At Durham University we are proud of our people. A globally outstanding centre of educational excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other. We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things professionally and personally.
Across the University we have a huge variety of roles and career opportunities, which together make us a large and successful community, which is a key hub of activity within our region and nationally. We would be thrilled if you would consider joining our thriving University. Further information about the University can be found here

**Introduction**

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other. We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world.

We find it easy to be proud of the extraordinary people we have at Durham. We offer the inspiration; they achieve the outstanding. We invite you to join our fantastic team.

**Our People Strategy**

People are the most important asset of Durham University, and our HR Department is pivotal in ensuring that we attract, recruit, develop, reward and retain the very best talent from across the world into our University community. Building on our bold and ambitious University Strategy, a key role of HR is to secure the University’s strategic aim, ‘to be a world leading employer’ by ensuring that our staff can reach their full potential. The HR Department plays a lead role in creating a working environment for our staff (and potential staff) which is supportive, stimulating and informative which provides for creative and innovative employment practices and opportunities. Our aim is to make sure that Durham University is a great place to work.

Our People Strategy has 5 key strategic aims. These are:

- To structure the workforce in the most effective and efficient ways to deliver the University Strategy
- To attract, retain and reward the best talent
- To develop leadership at all levels ensuring that all staff are supported to realise their potential and understand their contributions to achieving the University's core goals
- To ensure that an increasingly diverse workforce is treated equally, fairly and with respect and that all staff are demonstrably valued and actively engaged
- To promote and support the wellbeing of the workforce.

**OUR VALUES**:We are inspiring, challenging, innovative, responsible and enabling.

**The Role and Department**

The HR Adviser will assist the HR Business Partner in providing generalist HR advice and support to a dedicated area, dealing with the full range of staffing issues, and working with other areas of HR & OD on areas such as recruitment, employee relations, people development, role evaluation and reward.

The HR Advisor will predominantly support employee relations but there will be the opportunity to support projects across the broad spectrum of HR & OD. While the role is advertised as full-time, we are open to requests for part-time hours/job shares.

**Responsibilities**

**Interpersonal & Communication**
- Recognised professional practitioner and service specialist working with the HR Business Partner to provide proactive professional advice and practical expertise on the full range of employee relations issues (including employment, performance management, absence cases, restructures, development, termination, legislative, contractual, grievance and disciplinary issues) to Managers and Staff of all levels across the University.
- Internal and external relationship development and partnership working, networking and participation to facilitate knowledge exchange, including maintaining constructive and collaborative communications with staff, work colleagues and trade union representatives.
- Provision of well-constructed written advice, reports and letters relation to the full range of employee relations issues.
- Provide proactive and comprehensive HR support to Head of Services, School and/or Department to achieve strategic and operational priorities.
- Provide advice to stakeholders in relation to University HR procedures and regulations.

**Operations**
- Undertake relevant research and provide specialist expertise and support with complexity of data and information sources, interpretation and analysis.
- Contribute to