Senior HR Advisor Schools

6 hours ago

Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom Interval Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced HR professional to join our team at Interval. As a Senior HR Advisor Schools, you will provide high-quality advice and support to schools and academies on a range of HR disciplines.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide a comprehensive professional advisory service to headteachers, governors, and other clients across the range of HR services.
  • Lead on HR policy development for schools, ensuring policies are fit for purpose and aligned with legislative changes and HR best practice.
  • Seek opportunities for new business by developing new and existing networks and demonstrating the value that HR can add to an organisation.
  • Build effective customer relationships with senior school employees, making decisions on site under pressure and contributing to formal meetings and coaching senior employees.
  • Understand the needs of clients, working with them to develop solutions that are in line with best practice and employment law, practical, customer-focused, and aligned with their objectives, strategy, vision, and values.
  • Advise and provide appropriate interpretation to customers on employment law and employee terms and conditions, including provision of advice on employment practices, pay, and conditions of service in compliance with relevant legislation.
  • Provide advice and support to managers on complex casework, including discipline, performance, redundancy, absence, and grievances, from the provision of written/telephone advice to acting as advisor to customers in formal and preparatory meetings and hearings.
  • Provide high-quality transformational advice in relation to change management programmes, including consultation meetings with staff and trade union consultations, ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legislation, and School Staffing Regulations.
  • Provide comprehensive, highly credible advice and support to clients on the TUPE process during schools conversion to Academy status or other TUPE transfers.
  • Provide specialist knowledge on the varying categories of schools in relation to specific statutory obligations and legal standing for both Governing Bodies and the Local Authority.
  • Act as an investigating officer for clients, including report writing and making appropriate recommendations, which may cover an array of subject areas such as safeguarding, health and safety, and fraud.
  • Design and deliver HR training programmes for schools and other clients, where there is a requirement for specific training on HR issues, such as employment law, absence management, introduction of policies or procedural issues.
  • Manage and deliver specific allocated projects to time, quality, and cost, working with customers, HR Managers, and others in the HR function as appropriate.
  • Work with customers on recruitment and selection exercises, providing advice on the development of job descriptions and person specifications, job evaluation, job advertisements, selection tests/exercises, and assessment centres.
  • Advise customers on terms and conditions of employment, including equal pay matters, and support and participate in customers' job evaluation schemes.
  • Assist customers in proactively managing sickness absence by providing appropriate advice and working closely with the Occupational Health Service to support employees who are affected by illness.
  • Work collaboratively with trade union representatives on casework, change management programmes, and other employee relations issues.
  • Facilitate formal communication and consultation with employees and their representatives to facilitate change, resolve conflict, and promote a positive working environment that involves staff.
  • Assist with the provision, interpretation, and monitoring of data and management information as required, following the relevant procedures for ensuring that information and data are collected and recorded accurately, thus enabling the production of reliable analyses and reports.
  • Advise on any possible redeployment or retraining opportunities and signpost to external assistance and support available for staff at risk.
  • Attend Position of Trust meetings (multi-agency safeguarding meetings) in relation to allegations made against directorate or school-based employees to ensure the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people, providing advice on the HR implications of any allegations.
  • Generate new ideas or initiatives that improve performance, reduce costs, or create new business opportunities.
  • Ensure effective continuing professional development of skills, knowledge, and understanding, particularly in the area of employment law.
Requirements

We are looking for an experienced HR professional who is preferably fully CIPD qualified or able to demonstrate equivalent experience. You should have a strong knowledge of employment law, excellent time management and interpersonal skills, be able to work mainly autonomously under the guidance of your line manager, and have the ability to make on-the-spot professional decisions in challenging environments.

You will be required to travel throughout Herefordshire to attend on-site school meetings on a regular basis and sometimes at short notice. As travel is essential, you will be required to provide your own transport for business use (mileage is paid).

Benefits
  • 26 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays increasing to 31 days after 5 years of service.
  • Aviva salary sacrifice pension scheme.
  • Flexible benefits scheme offering various discounts across retailers, the option to buy or sell annual leave, cycle to work scheme, and healthcare plans.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview.

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