HR People Advisor

**Job description**

We are currently looking for an experienced HR People Advisor to join our successful and busy HR team on a permanent basis.

**Overview of role**:
The HR Advisor will support the business all aspects of HR and support the Senior Management Team in the delivery of organisational HR objectives alongside the wider SSG HR team, and will be the key contact in the business. You will be a central point of contact to provide a full range of HR guidance and support to department managers and employees across the organisation. You will also support the administration and coordination of a range of HR systems.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Employee Relations**
- Provide comprehensive and practical HR advice and support to managers and employees in line with organisational policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
- Support and manage disciplinary, grievance and performance cases and act as note taker throughout internal processes
- Manage casework relating to sickness absence, providing advice and support to managers, monitoring absence, attending case review and capability meetings, liaising with Occupational Health and medical professionals.
- Advise managers on recruitment and selection, preparing job descriptions and adverts, participating in interviews and producing offers of employment.
- Encourage and support employees in their development and training.
- Keep up to date with developments in employment legislation and communicate this and HR best practice to managers and updating policies and procedures.
- Acting as a key contact for all HR issues and delivering an efficient and timely response to problems
- Respond to benefits related queries from employees
- Liaising and building strong relationships with the management team across departments

**Administration**
- Presenting and reviewing the Company Induction process in line with new starter commencement dates and ensuring all the relevant new starter paperwork is collated.
- Monitoring and reviewing disclosure checks for new and existing employees.
- Supporting, monitoring, and implementing any changes in line with the NMW requirements.
- Prepare the monthly HR Board Report and ad hoc management HR KPI reports.
- Prepare contractual documentation in relation to new appointments, terminations and variations of employment and notifying Payroll regarding salary changes.
- Maintain and update manual and computerised HR systems ensuring the accurate recording of information.
- Maintaining people data, ensuring consistency between the HR system.
- Ensure all benefits administration processes are dealt with in a timely and accurate manner.
- Running audit reports to highlight and cleanse any data errors.
- Updating HR System with employee data.
- Assisting with project administration (appraisals, recruitment, onboarding).

**Qualifications**
- Relevant HR experience or Diploma in Human Resource Management CIPD accreditation (level 5).

**Skills, Knowledge, Experience**
- Experience of general finance, administration and HR skills
- Strong HR advisory and coaching abilities
- Have good general IT skills and the ability to work with spreadsheets, word packages, PowerPoint etc.
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience working with and on confidential and sensitive data/cases.
- Have an ability to manage their time and work independently.
- Able to maintain a professional stance and appreciate confidentiality.
- Desirable: working towards or already associate member of CIPD

**Additional Requirements**:

- Disclosure Check
- Full UK Driving Licence

Whilst the role will be mainly based out of our brand new offices in Stowmarket, there will also be some travel to other sites within our business. Hybrid working arrangements would also be considered.

**What We Offer**
- Competitive Salary
- Employer contributed pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24 hours telephone and online access and 6 counselling sessions.
- Generous annual leave entitlement on completion of 1 years continuous service.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave as part of our family-friendly benefits.
- A Flexible Benefits Scheme (including buy and sell holidays, bike to work scheme, and Healthshield care plan).
- Access to working group representatives including our ERC, Gender & Equality, and Ethnicity & Diversity for your voice to be heard and help us keep that personal touch.
- The opportunity to join our Sharesave Scheme to become a shareholder in the Sureserve Group and start saving today
- Sureserve Group Academy programme that acknowledges the success of our trainees and apprentices
- Sureserve Group Legends scheme, with a reward for the ultimate legend

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£37,500.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Stowmarket: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Human resourc