HR Advisor

Job Title: HR Adviser – maternity cover
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
Salary: £42,000
Contract: Fixed term contract up to one year, or until the substantive post holder returns

This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.

Please note: We can only accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.

Requirements

We’re looking for an experienced, highly motivated, people-focused generalist Adviser with great interpersonal skills for this busy HR role to cover maternity leave absence.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join our small, but supportive, People and Culture Team working on all aspects of generalist HR advice and support. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing excellent people-focused services, and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.

You will bring your knowledge and experience of providing generalist HR advice and support to line managers. You should be a resilient, professionally curious person, who is enthusiastic about developing a career in HR.

You will work closely with the People and Culture Manager in a generalist capacity, to support with continuous improvement across all areas of P&C work, while helping to support and achieve our organisational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Coaching and advising line managers on all People matters.
• Managing and progressing HR casework.
• Working collaboratively with recruiting managers to help design JD&PS, job adverts, and assessments for candidates (to ensure we get the very best people for the job).
• Providing support across all HR projects and proactively contributing creative ideas.

You

We are seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an efficient and customer-focused service to employees, managers and senior leaders. This is a busy and varied role, so we’re looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, who can adapt to a fast-paced working environment while ensuring consistency, alongside considering and minimising risks. You should have experience of working independently with limited supervision and be highly skilled at prioritising your workload.

You don’t need to have worked in Housing before, but you should have experience of working in a HR team with knowledge of HR good practice. You need to be flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, and have excellent communication and influencing skills. A great sense of humour will serve you in good stead working in our busy, fast-paced office, and your sound judgement skills will be second to none.

Don’t feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At ISHA, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited by this role but your experience doesn’t quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.

About ISHA

We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for our own people.

Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.

If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do apply.

Deadline: 09:00 on 03 March 2025.
Interview: week commencing 10 March 2025 in person at 102 Blackstock Road.

Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to where you can complete your application for this position.

Staff Benefits

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with ongoing training and career development opportunities.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.

Asking for Adjustments

ISHA is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us.

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