Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this HR Consultant position sits within a boutique HR consultancy that prides itself on the service it offers its clients and family-feel culture.
What’s in it for you?
- Work hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- Salary: Circa £50,000, depending on experience
- Pension scheme
- Plenty of progression opportunities
HR Consultant Responsibilities:
- Act as the first point of contact for a dedicated set of accounts, both for ongoing and ad-hoc HR work
- Use your intense knowledge to guide clients and deliver exceptional HR support
- Develop bespoke HR plans for clients and support with delivery and implementation, ensuring they are delivered to agreed timescales
- Manage various complex employee relations cases, taking the lead on investigations, working autonomously to make final decisions
- Undertake grievance, disciplinary, and capability investigations and make recommendations
- Assist clients with TUPE transfers, company restructures, and redundancies
- Provide guidance and hands-on support with sickness absence
- Attend and lead a range of meetings and hearings, depending on what is required by the client
- Collate data and produce management reports
- Create HR documents including specialist contracts of employment, policies and procedures, letters relating to formal proceedings, and general HR and recruitment correspondence
- Ensure HR databases and client records are well maintained and contain accurate information
- Support the internal team where necessary, sharing your knowledge and insights with the junior team and supporting their growth and development
HR Consultant Skills and Experience:
- Extensive HR experience, we expect the successful candidate to already be operating as a HR Consultant, HR Manager or HR Director
- A HR-related qualification would be preferable, such as CIPR Level 5, MCIPD or FCIPD
- Proven track record of managing complex ER cases and is confident working on a number of cases at once
- Demonstrates experience of taking the lead on investigations and hearings of disciplinaries and grievances
- Has exceptional generalist HR knowledge and stays up to date with the latest employment law
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise with several clients and is confident providing guidance and coaching
- Articulate, and confident handling queries and sharing constructive feedback
- Excellent customer service skills, comfortable engaging with new business enquiries and quoting process or our products and services
- Enjoys an autonomous role and is confident taking the lead and using initiative
- Exceptional organisational skills and a proven ability to work under pressure whilst ensuring accuracy, quality and attention to detail at all times.
- Possesses a driving license and can travel to clients within the Midlands
