HR Advisor Ftc

**Job Summary**:
The HR Advisor role provides comprehensive Employee Relations and recruitment support to Thompson Valves Ltd’s management population. It ensures compliance with all Company procedures, policies and employment legislation, and support the HR Team to drive forward best practice HR initiatives and projects across the business.

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**Responsibilities**:
Duties will include but not be limited to:

- Ensure best practice in operational HR management, under the direction of the HR Manager, Energy EMEA through the provision of high quality, consistent, robust, proactive and timely advice to managers and team members ensuring compliance with best practice and employment law.
- Provide HR and Employee Relations advice on issues such as discipline, grievance, capability, attendance, redundancy; supporting with investigations and hearings, preparing statements and ensuring compliance with Company policies, whilst ensuring legal or other risks are mitigated.
- Conducting interviews with line managers.
- Maintain coherent Employee Relations case files adhering to legal requirements.
- Maintain Employee Relations Case Tracker and carry out weekly reporting on case progress.
- Support and guide managers with the management of employee health, wellbeing and attendance issues, managing relationships and appointments with our Occupational Health providers.
- Support Change Management processes including preparing consultation documents and attending consultation meetings as advised by the HR Manager.
- Coaching managers through the full employment life cycle to maximise performance and adherence to process.
- Supporting managers in the management of short and long term absence.
- Support employees on an individual basis as appropriate and offer guidance in line with Company wellbeing initiatives and policies.
- Drive the Company’s Wellbeing Programme and initiatives to provide the right environment and support for all employees across the business.
- Foster and leverage external relationships to grow wellbeing knowledge and understanding and to enhance the Thompson Valves Ltd Wellbeing Programme.
- Utilise national wellbeing studies, reports and data to help identify and direct initiatives.
- Coordinate monthly Wellbeing Champion meetings and bimonthly engagement with the workforce.
- Drive the mental health element of inclusion and diversity.
- Support events coordination with the PA to the Regional Operations Director, Energy.
- Supporting line managers with arranging Occupational Health referrals and implementing the necessary adjustments.
- Build and manage relationships with the Thompson Valves Ltd recruitment partners..
- Managing the new joiner process from offer stage through to joining instructions, induction and the probationary period completion.
- Supporting line managers with the arrangement staff training and development.
- Providing support with the annual and exceptional pay review process.
- Carrying out any other duties appropriate to this post, as necessary or as requested.

**The Person**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Previous experience at Advisor level in a generalist role.
- Achieved CIPD Level 5 or equivalent qualification or experience and/or willing to work towards Level 7.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to build rapport and effective relationships with a wide variety of people at all levels of the organisation, both internally and externally.
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation and planning skills with the ability to keep accurate records, use initiative, set priorities and work without supervision to a high standard with mínimal errors and within timescales/targets.
- Able to demonstrate a desire to succeed and to work as part of a team and work independently.
- Strong IT skills, with particular knowledge of Microsoft Office including Mail Merge and Pivot Tables.
- Strong demonstrable experience of successful Employee Relations casework.
- Understanding of, or exposure to core HR disciplines such as recruitment, performance management, supporting Employee Relations cases, payroll, reporting, Talent and reward.
- Collaborates with others, putting their own needs aside to create a shared sense of purpose.
- Good process skills and a drive to secure continuous improvement.
- Experience in a metrics focused environment including weekly and monthly quarterly reporting and analysis.
- Working well under pressure and able to work towards deadlines.
- Ability to deal sensitively and appropriately with confidential information demonstrating a high level of integrity with high personal and professional standards.
- Determined to overcome unexpected obstacles to get to the right solution.