HR Advisor in Thirsk

Norton Loxley is a HR consultancy for the modern world. We specialise in helping our clients to grow and reach their business goals and aspirations, through providing commercially sound HR support, guidance and strategy. We value contentiousness, integrity and having an approachable mentality, we put these values at the heart of all our decision making, ensuring that any advice given is always with our client’s best interests at the forefront.

A day in the life at Norton Loxley:

As a People Advisor, you will have the opportunity to manage your own portfolio of clients who outsource their HR requirements to Norton Loxley. Serving as a HR Advisor to a Managing Director or business owner, you will use your knowledge of HR on a daily basis to advise on a broad range of initiatives including employee relations, performance management, employee engagement, organisational restructures and covering the full employee lifecycle.

Key tasks will include:

• Taking ownership and providing relevant, straightforward and appropriate HR advice by email, phone and occasionally face to face at our clients’ premises.
• Thinking creatively and taking a proactive approach to help improve our clients’ businesses and HR processes.
• Working on a variety of HR projects to support our clients business plans, as required.
• Creating and advising on suitable company handbooks, contracts and HR documentation.
• Supporting our clients through HR processes (such as disciplinary, grievances, performance management) as needed.
• HR and people administration (including onboarding and offboarding support).
• Setting up HR systems for clients.
• Ensuring people data is entered and maintained correctly.
• Supporting with recruitment projects on behalf of our clients, including understanding the client requirements, creating engaging job adverts, advertising on relevant job boards and social media, proactive candidate searching, conducting thorough screening, presenting a shortlist and providing weekly reports to the client on recruitment project progress.
• Representing the business professionally and articulately with all external communication including; inbound telephone calls and enquiries, emails and social media.

This is a varied role which is client facing and will include an element of client account management.

What’s in it for me?

• Flexible working: The opportunity for hybrid working.
• Personal and professional development is encouraged and supported.
• The opportunity to progress and develop within the business as the team grows. We are a professional, supportive and friendly team with big ambitions!
• Whilst this vacancy is advertised as full time, we are open to considering alternative flexible working patterns.

What skills and experience is required?

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.
• A passion for the HR profession and an interest in keeping up to date with the latest trends.
• Up to date employment law knowledge.
• Generalist human resource experience, preferably working in an SME environment.
• Excellent at building relationships with individuals at all levels.
• Demonstrating an open and professional approach towards clients, building relationships and trust.
• Excellent attention to detail and focus on quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• IT literacy with Microsoft packages, HR systems, CRMs etc. (we run a paper free office).
• Ability to work to deadlines, sometimes under pressure.
• Previous experience working in an outsourced HR capacity or SME environment would be an advantage.

Interested in finding out more? Then please get in touch or apply today!