Senior People Advisor (FTC 9 months in Manchester

Greater Manchester / Agile

Hours of Work: 28 – 35 hours per week

We're looking for an experienced and proactive Senior People Advisor to join our People Team on a fixed-term basis.

Working closely with the Head of People, you'll play a key role in supporting the delivery of a range of people priorities, projects and initiatives across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional who enjoys building strong relationships, influencing stakeholders and helping managers and colleagues navigate change and development with confidence.

This role offers a varied workload across employee relations, organisational projects, recruitment, wellbeing and people-focused initiatives, making it ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys making a positive impact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing professional HR advice, guidance and coaching to managers and colleagues.
• Supporting a range of organisational projects, workforce initiatives and change activities.
• Leading and supporting consultation and employee engagement activities where required.
• Advising on employee relations matters, including attendance, conduct, capability and grievance issues.
• Supporting recruitment and workforce planning activity.
• Working closely with managers to promote positive employee wellbeing and engagement.
• Building effective relationships with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of People processes and services.
• Supporting the wider People Team to deliver an excellent customer-focused service.

What We're Looking For

• Experience operating in a generalist HR or People Advisory role.
• Strong employee relations knowledge and practical experience.
• Experience supporting organisational change, projects or workforce initiatives.
• Up-to-date knowledge of employment law and HR best practice.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to manage a varied workload and work independently.
• A positive, professional and solution-focused approach.

CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience) is essential.

We offer a range of great benefits including:

• Flexibility on where you work with home working kit provided
• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday a buy scheme.
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions
• Company funded access to a health cash plan, where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more.
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.
• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career
• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause.

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role and all applications and CV’s are anonymised to the recruitment panel.

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Jemma Fernyhough at jemma.fernyhough@msvhousing.co.uk