HR Advisor

Job Introduction
Every member of the team at Gleeson contributes to the vision of; Building Homes. Changing Lives. The key to achieving this vision is working together in line with our company values of being, Passionate, Collaborative and Respectful and genuinely caring about building affordable, quality homes. Where they are needed for the people who need them most.

The role of HR Advisor is to provide generalist HR advice, operational and administrative support to the division in line with business strategy and HR Department Policies and Procedures. In addition to this, presence of HR Business Partner’s in the division across regional offices, sales offices and sites is crucial to be a professional and approachable member of the team.

The purpose of this role is to provide an effective, professional, and efficient HR support and assistance for the North East Division consisting of Tees Valley, Tyne and Wear and East Yorkshire.

Main Responsibilities
Employee Relations
- First point of contact for providing HR support in the form of operational advice and administrative processing, to all employees on key policies and procedures required within the employment relationship.
- Work with line management and HR Operations Manager to resolve employee relations issues that may arise in accordance with HR policies and legislation.
- Support the management of all employee relations processes including capability, grievance, disciplinary, absence management and investigations.
- Implementation and recommendations on initiatives to improve our people practices and procedures to avoid problems reoccurring.
- Investigating officer in majority of ER cases including statement taking and evidence collating.
- Being the first point of contact for employee welfare, providing that initial support, signposting and advice for all employees.
- Ensuring the Division is legally compliant with Employment Law when dealing with employee relations and ensuring knowledge and practices are up to date with new legislation.
- Escalating and making recommendations on serious ER cases that involve company risk.
- Reporting on divisional ER cases through ER tracker and keeping HR team updated on key cases in the regions.

HR Administration
- Carry out key HR administration as required ensuring the smooth running of the department.
- Work alongside the HR Assistant and payroll team to ensure all monthly and weekly starter/leaver/contract changes are processed accurately.
- Processing of senior level starters, leavers, changes and any actions that may arise from this including conducting exit interviews.

Onboarding & Engagement
- Supporting senior management and directors with resource planning for their regions aligned with business objectives and strategy.
- Engaging with new starters from day one of employment to ensure they are fully onboarded into their roles.
- Supporting new line managers into the business through management inductions and training.
- Working collaboratively with senior stakeholders in the Divisions to help support engagement practices and action plans.
- To support and plan any future engagement initiatives.

Training & Development
- Work collaboratively with the training department to facilitate and prepare for HR initiatives and training where required on HR policies, processes and procedures.
- Work with business unit and training department to identify training needs and implement training plans accordingly through performance improvement plan tools.
- Supporting the employment journey of apprentices across the business unit, including site and office based apprentices.

Additional duties:

- Project work as required to align Divisions strategically with business aims.
- Supporting senior stakeholders with management and allocations of our discretionary bonus scheme and salary reviews.
- Providing support and advice for health and wellbeing of all employees including updating Wellbeing Toolkit and planning wellbeing initiatives.
- Collaborating with and advising senior stakeholders across the Division to ensure their people practices are aligned with business objectives.
- Presence regionally on site and in offices to be that approachable HR contact.
- Supporting change management on large projects alongside Senior management to ensure contractual documentation is aligned and processes followed.
- Ensuring values are embedded, implemented and demonstrated across the regions being an advocate for these values.
- General HR reporting for Senior Management and HR Operations Manager.

How the position fits into the organisation:
The HR Business Partner will work closely with the HR Operations Manager and Senior Management within their Division alongside the support of their HR Assistant.

Key Role Deliverables:
To provide accurate and effective HR advice and support to management and employees to ensure policies and practices are being followed. In addition to this, aligning people practices with the business