Human Resources Manager - Maternity relief in Baildon

This is a maternity relief role, which will last 12-13 months. The successful individual will report to the Head of HR and manage the HR administrator. We have 8 Bradford based sites and the HR manager is required to work across all 8 sites, travelling independently. This is a full time role, working Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

• The HR Manager operates as a first point of contact for HR queries in the team providing a HR support service for the organisation, managers and employees.
• Responsible for ensuring that high quality, consistent and comprehensive HR advice is given across the organisation on agreed policies and procedures and terms and conditions for all staff groups.
• Manage the HR administrator(s).
• Knowledge in employment law and advise on employee relations matters alongside the Head of HR.
• Promote and actively support diversity and inclusivity, ensuring all of our people are treated with dignity and respect and challenging any form of inequality, discrimination, harassment or abuse.
• Proactively support the health and well-being of all of our people to enable them to achieve job fulfilment, improved performance and happiness in the workplace.
• Oversee the two-way communication between the organisation and the payroll provider.

Benefits

• 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time hours)
• Birthday Holiday (pro rata for part time hours)
• Well-being day (pro rata for part time hours)
• Access to Simply Health

Job responsibilities

• Support managers to prevent, monitor and resolve employment issues in accordance with HR policy and procedures.
• Provide professional advice and support to managers on matters relating to disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence, bullying and harassment and performance management.
• Support line managers to effectively perform their people management responsibilities and proactively manage employment relation matters aligned to the organisations values.
• Assess and recommend courses of action on the array of HR issues, analysing a range of options in line with relevant policies and procedures.
• Provide timely, consistent, accurate and appropriate advice and support for managers in carrying out investigations in line with relevant policies and procedures.
• Act as the HR Representative, supporting managers in formal meetings and panels arranged under relevant policies and procedures.
• Ensure the sickness absence management policy is consistently applied in cases of short and long-term sickness absence issues.
• Provide advice, guidance and support to managers on all terms and conditions including employment law, contract queries, performance issues, absence management.
• Manage HR administrator(s) and provide line management including absence management, holiday coordination and wellbeing.
• Develop and train the administrator.
• Provide advice and support for our people in relation to grievances, cases of bullying and harassment, health concerns, return to work following mid to long term absences.
• Oversee the payroll process in terms of providing all the information and changes required on a monthly basis to the outsourced payroll provider.
• Manage the employee facing payroll queries.
• Support the Head of HR, COO and PSMs in employee management.
• Support and advise managers on recruitment and selection activity enabling effective recruitment of the right people.
• Contribute to the development of HR policies and processes based on current legislation, best practice and operational needs of the organisation.
• Ensure an up-to-date knowledge is shared throughout the Human Resources Team regarding changes in employment legislation, best practice.
• Support the organisation in the roll out of the appraisal process including training to line managers.
• Undertake general HR tasks as required and appropriate to the grade.
• Undertake projects as required, including but not limited to staff surveys, risk assessments.
• Be responsible for personal continuous professional development and knowledge of relevant policies and procedures.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity

• Act in ways that recognise the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Affinity Care's values and procedures.
• Respect the privacy, dignity and beliefs of employees and stakeholders.

Safeguarding

• Affinity Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Staff should ensure that they are aware of the organisations policy and procedures for safeguarding and discharge their responsibilities for safeguarding effectively.

Person Specification

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and the use of the internet, intranet and ability to update databases.
• Understanding of implementing and applying HR policies and procedures.
• Excellent organising and prioritising skills.
• Ability to deal with people tactfully and empathetically.
• Excellent written skills with the ability to develop and write clear and concise reports and policies.
• Strong phone, email, and in-person communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse and interpret data.

Qualifications

• Qualified to CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.
• Active Associate CIPD membership.

Experience

• Experience of working in HR, in an operational/policy advice capacity.
• Generalist HR experience which involves advising managers on HR issues.
• Experience of using HR systems/databases e.g. IRIS HR, ESR.

Other requirements

• Must be willing and able to travel between sites.
• Flexible with ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure, exhibiting resilience.
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and self-motivated.
• Strong work ethic with a mature and professional approach to work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.