Human Resources Advisor

Location: Edinburgh

Hours: Full time or Part time will be considered

The HR Advisor role provides efficient HR employee relations support to the business units ensuring the effective delivery of the agreed Group HR strategy and providing proactive, business focused HR support and advice. The HR Advisor will ensure effective management of employee relations cases across specific business units. Working closely with Managing Directors and their Senior Leadership teams, regional presence and support is a key aspect of the role.

What you'll do:

• Deliver an effective HR service to the assigned business areas, assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures in line with best practice in people management.
• Build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Liaise closely with business leaders and managers to monitor HR practices and ensure compliance providing professional advice and guidance.
• Lead in case management across your business areas, complex attendance issues, performance management, grievance, restructures, redundancies, and re-evaluation of posts in accordance with both policies and procedures.
• Ensure consistency and compliance with case management highlighting trends for the wider HR team learning.
• Support when required the development and implementation of HR policies and update Employee Handbooks as appropriate, ensuring that policies are kept up to date on all relevant drives.
• Lead on the production of HR reports on a regular basis on such topics as employee engagement, sickness absence, turnover, analysing trends and highlighting improvement opportunities to the HR Manager, SLT and Heads of Business.
• Monitor trends in employment practice and employment law to advise on appropriate pro-active action.

What you'll need:

• HR Degree or equivalent
• Chartered or Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or relevant qualification
• Commercially aware
• Committed to CPD
• Focused and highly motivated
• Planning/prioritising and time-management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and writing
• Experience of handling demanding ER caseloads
• Confident in analysing data and interpreting trends
• Strong report writing skills
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Knowledge and understanding of various sectors of the Group and able to work collaboratively across all teams
• Must be able to work independently to achieve deadlines and manage priorities, maintaining regular communication channels with the wider team
• Focused on continuous improvement
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel

Benefits of working with Robertson:

• 33 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time or FTC positions, increases with length of service)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts (gym memberships, restaurants, days out etc.) with Hapi Rewards App
• Access to E-Learning

Diversity & Inclusion: When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. That’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more.

This role will be subject to pre-employment screening, including references. The level of screening may vary depending on role responsibilities and will be discussed at interview.