HR Advisor

**Job description**:
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of HR Advisor, based in Barrow in Furness.

**Responsibilities**:

- Acts as a first point of contact for employees, ensuring that they are fully aware of policies and processes, and provide responses and guidance in line with the company's HR policy and practice
- Responds to internal and external HR related enquiries
- escalating to HR colleagues as needed
- Facilitates careers events and coordinates schools outreach, Career Ready and Intern programs.
- Manages the onboarding of new hires, ensuring they are fully aware of benefits, policies, systems and processes required to effectively settle into the company.
- Acts as the point of contact for leavers, ensuring they have the information and support they need. Conduct exit interviews and capture outputs for MI.
- With support from the relevant HRBP, manages and resolves straightforward employee relations issues, including grievances, performance improvement, etc. Conducts effective, thorough and objective investigations. Supports HRBPs with more complex cases. Produces regular overall case management progress update.
- Work closely with our external Occupational Healthcare provider in support of our sickness absence management process. Liaise with the employees impacted, OH, managers and HRBPs to ensure a smooth and considerate process.
- Takes on project roles as part of the development or delivery of broader organisational and HR initiatives and programs.
- Supports projects and initiatives being led by HRBPs and HR Specialists such as the annual reward review.
- Management of change HR focal point for organisational changes.

Work in partnership with HR Business Partners and Managers on performance management and employee development initiatives and actions.
- Supports HR Business Partners with monthly headcount review and ensure changes are captured in Workday so the monthly reporting to Finance is up to date.

Coordinate input for the HR Business Partners for the annual plan and headcount reforecasts.
- Continually looks for and implements more effective and efficient ways of delivering HR solutions.
- Proactively works across the team, but particularly with the HR Coordinators, to provide robust and coordinated support to the business and HR Business Partners.

Experience & Qualifications:

- Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously. Builds rapport and is building the skills to be able to influence in a constructive way.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively, within their team and across the organisation and externally as required.
- Networks effectively internally and externally, creating an immediate, positive and credible impression on others.
- Highly visible, enthusiastic and people focused style
- Great organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, meet tight deadlines and take responsibility for timely and accurate completion of tasks
- Ability to manage and analyse data, track KPIs and use them to drive performance.
- Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team
- Actively seeks out areas for development and improvement within the business
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to prioritise accordingly
- Has a robust knowledge of applicable HR regulation and standards, as well as the company's HR policies and practices.
- Developing knowledge of HR disciplines and the role HR plays in organisations.
- Developing a strong contextual understanding of the business and using this to learn to understand how to develop people solutions to business challenges and risks.
- Developing questioning, coaching and influencing skills
- Keeps up to date on developments in the HR profession.
- Degree qualification in a relevant discipline
- CIPD certification or working towards

Contract position

Our role in supporting **_diversity_** and **_inclusion_**
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.