People Adviser

**About the Role**

Are you passionate about driving change and empowering leaders to bring out the best in their teams?

We have an opportunity within our HR Team for a full time confident and experienced People Adviser to join us for a six month family leave cover contract.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the delivery of our growth strategy through effective people practices and change management.

Our HR department are central to the delivery of our people strategy and we are looking for someone who cares as much about people as we do.

Reporting into the People Operations Manager, you’ll act as a trusted adviser to managers across the organisation. You’ll support them through significant organisational change programmes, ensuring people impacts are understood and managed effectively.

You’ll also bring strong employee relations expertise, providing practical coaching and advice on complex cases, particularly in absence management and performance management, to build confident, capable leaders.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

- Providing an effective and legally compliant Employee Relations advice service through case management
- Advising managers to support the successful delivery of change initiatives aligned to our growth strategy.
- Monitoring and analysing caseload trends for your business area(s) to drive continuous improvement and enhance organisational performance.
- Work collaboratively with the wider People team and key stakeholders to ensure delivery of a seamless, proactive service.

**About You**

If you have already gained your CIPD qualification and experience in a generalist HR role, supporting organisational change, and have a strong knowledge of UK employment law and best practice in managing employee relations cases then we would love to hear from you. Your experience of working in partnership with managers helping to deliver innovative people solutions whilst remaining focused on business needs will also be invaluable in this role.

You will need to be a confident communicator whether this is over the phone, face to face or in writing. Your relationship building and influencing skills will play a key role in your ongoing success as our focus is on coaching managers to build their people management skills.

Our Customers are at the centre of everything we do as a Society and this is especially the case where our colleagues are concerned. As with all busy teams we can have a lot going on at any one time so being organised as well as being able to adapt quickly to change will also be key skills in this role.

**About Us**

Our people are at the heart of what we do and you will be tasked with providing a customer focused ER service. As a Platinum IIP accredited organisation, our People team is focussed on enabling strong business performance through aligned, best in class people practices and supporting our colleagues to realise their potential.

We’re really proud of our team, what we have achieved so far and the journey we’re about to embark upon. There’s never been a better time to come join us.

**What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes**:

- Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
- Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
- Annual performance related pay reviews
- Colleague mortgage scheme
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
- Access to our financial advisers
- Access to a range of high street and online discounts
- A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
- 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
- Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
- Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood
- Private medical insurance
- Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
- Two paid volunteering days’ each year
- Cycle to work scheme

Pay: £34,319.00-£46,431.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wallsend NE28 9EJ