HR / ER Advisor

Part time – 28.8 hours over 4 or 5 days - reasonable flexibility considered.

Permanent Swindon or Bristol with 2 office days per week (both locations near the train station).

FTE salary to £38,400 pro-rata + excellent benefits / pension / holiday.

Henlee Resourcing is working in partnership with this fabulous niche organisation with a base in Swindon and Bristol, to recruit an experienced permanent HR Advisor for 28.8 hours per week which can be spread over 4 or 5 days with 2 office days per week. The hours can be moulded to suit school hours or indeed any reasonable requirement.

The purpose of the roles is to deliver a proactive, customer focused HR operational support to managers and staff, providing advice and guidance on the full range of HR services. You will develop and maintain strong working relationships with your client group, supporting them to achieve their corporate objectives and ensure HR’s contribution and impact in those groups.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Through challenging and coaching, support managers to be effective leaders and to help them develop diverse, high-performing teams.
• Provide advice and guidance on the whole range of HR / ER issues; enhancing line managers’ confidence and ability as people managers and ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.
• Advise, support and coach line managers and employees involved in all casework (including complex) such as sickness absence, disciplinary and grievance cases, agreeing service levels with clients on an individual basis per case/project so that both parties have clarity about support needed/to be given.
• Engage with staff representatives and/or TU officials regarding local people issues.
• Work in partnership with HR Shared Services to ensure all processes connected with the employee lifecycle (including new starter, reward and recognition, employment changes, absence and leavers) are managed effectively and properly recorded.
• Assist in the management and delivery of the recruitment process: advising managers on recruitment and selection, participating in the recruitment process as appropriate, including short-listing and selection, and ensuring the best candidate is selected.
• Contribute to the overall development and promotion of the HR function, by being an active member of the wider HR team, supporting colleagues, and working on the development of HR processes, policies and procedures and HR projects as required.

We are looking for you to possess equivalent experience to the above and/or be studying towards your CIPD qualification. You will have the ability to build strong relationships with individuals at all levels, have good critical reasoning skills, sound judgement, excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to prioritise, plan and organise efficiently.

If you are looking for an interesting and highly diverse opportunity on a part-time basis and can demonstrate the above capabilities, we are keen to hear from you ASAP.