HR Advisor

**Role**:Interim HR Advisor

**Location**:Blackburn, BB1 2FA - Office Based

**Contract**:6 Months Fixed Term Contract / Full Time Hours

**Salary**:£28,000 - £30,000 (Dependent on Experience)

**Company**:Asda Express

**About the Role**:
We are seeking an experienced and efficient HR Advisor to join our HR Team on an interim 6-month contract.

In this role, you will use your HR expertise and pro-active approach to deliver a high quality and professional Employee Relations service to our Asda Express Retail & Food Services business. You will independently handle a variety of complex cases, utilising HR data and evidence to influence decision making. Your insights and knowledge will guarantee that your HR advice, guidance and decision making are well-informed, accurate and aligned with our established policies and procedures.

You will deliver high-quality customer service, providing expert advice and support to managers by supporting on employee relation cases. These include investigations, disciplinary matters, monitoring short and long-term absences, grievances, redundancies, appeals, performance management and managing and monitoring immigration.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Proactively support managers and provide expert advice and guidance on employee relation topics including disciplinary, performance and absence management and grievances
- Working closely with other members of the HR team, you will strive to ensure a high quality of service is delivered to the business
- Resolve escalated and complex employee relations queries efficiently
- Work pro-actively to minimize employee relations casework and outstanding workload
- Ensure employment law, best practice and company policies are always adhered to
- Facilitate review and appraisal processes when supporting with complex Employee Relations cases
- Ensuring compliance with Home Office Right to Work requirements
- Undertaking HR projects and other administrative tasks
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to support business needs
- Strive to meet HR service level agreements and objectives
- Maintain communication and collaboration with key departments
- Responsible for the compliance of all personnel documentation, processes and procedures within regulatory framework
- Level 5/3 CIPD qualification is desired although not essential
- Experience in employee relations case management and complex case work
- Ability to use your own initiative to evaluate and mitigate cases appropriately
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Highly organized with the ability to multi-task
- Able to adapt to changing of business needs
- Practical problem-solving approach with great attention to detail
- Excellent understanding of employment law and best practice
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Commercial awareness

**Benefits & Rewards**
- ASDA Discount Card - 10% off all ASDA stores
- Exclusive discounts across 900 retailers
- Smart Health - 24/7 online GP access, health checks and health and wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Programme - access to our Wellbeing Centre which offers emotional & practical support including free financial advice.
- Learning & Development - access to our Learning Hub, the most extensive online course library in the world to support you with every step of your career
- Waterside Café - freshly prepared meals at affordable prices
- Free Secure Car Parking
- Dress Down Fridays
- Flexi-Time
- Prayer and Ablution Facilities
- Shower Facilities
- Sit / Stand Desk Facilities
- Free Eye Test

**About Asda Express**
- As the convenience arm of Asda, Asda Express is supporting Asda’s ambition to become the UK’s second largest grocery retailer by moving into the fast-growing £40bn convenience market. Asda Express will also help bring Asda’s value pricing closer to millions of customers._
- Following the acquisition of convenience sites from the Co-op Group and EG Group during the last two years, there are circa 470 stores which are in the process of being converted to Asda Express. Each store stocks up to 3,000 branded and own-label products to suit a broad range of customer needs including ‘top up’ shops for essential items such as milk and bread, grabbing lunch on the go or cooking dinner from scratch._
- The acquisition of the former EG Group UK convenience sites will also help accelerate Asda’s move into the £62bn foodservice market, adding more than 450 Greggs, Subway and Burger King outlets as franchise agreements as well as wholly owning healthy fast-food chain, LEON._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: HR Advisor - 104914