HR Advisor

**HR Advisor**:

- Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**Job Title: HR Advisor**
**Location: Plymouth, UK - Hybrid - working from home options available**
**Compensation: £34,160 - £38,393 + benefits**
**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**
**Role ID: SF 49760**

**Make your skills count**

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a HR Advisor at our Devonport site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

**Babcock International and Devonport**

The HR Advisor role is based within our Devonport Royal Dockyard business area.

Working at Devonport puts the best of the South West at your fingertips. Amazing scenery, vibrant towns and numerous leisure opportunities - It’s why Devon and Cornwall are such a desirable place to live and work.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines. Devonport has also recently been selected as the base port for the Navy’s new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

**The role**

**The difference our new HR Advisor will make**

As a HR Advisor you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this role you will contribute to modernising our employment policies and practices to enable a positive employee experience

Day to day, you’ll support our managers in dealing with people related matters, which will include supporting them through our employment procedures and providing advice, guidance and coaching on policies and procedures. You will also be involved in writing policies and procedures and supporting their implementation through developing and delivering briefing sessions to managers at all levels in collaboration with our L&D colleagues.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you’ll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home however, full flexibility is required.

**Essential experience**
- You will have, or be working towards, a level 5 CIPD qualification or have equivalent HR experience and be willing to achieve level 5, be a member of the CIPD and committed to continuous professional development.
- You will need to be proactive and be experienced in all aspects of employee relations, which includes supporting disciplinary, grievance, short/long term absence and working with Occupational Health, TUPE, redundancy and performance management processes.
- It’s essential you can build effective working relationships with our Trade Union colleagues, managers and HR Business Partners as you will be working closely with a specific business area, although you will be flexible and support where needed.
- Some other key skills you will need to enable success in this role are the ability to influence, challenge professionally and work collaboratively, as well as being personally credible.
- You will need to satisfy security requirements. This may require you to hold or be eligible/capable of achieving ‘Security Check’ (SC) clearance.

**What we offer**

Generous benefits including:

- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme - save tax and national insurance on shares, with 1 free share per 10 purchased
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Employment development allowance - £125 per year
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reward and Recognition Scheme linked to Health and Safety
- Working from home and flexible work patterns
- Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
- Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

**Babcock International**

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