HR Consultant

Location: Office-based with hybrid working and some travel to client's offices in London and South West as and when required. Based in Swindon area.

Hours: 15 to 21 hours/week. We are all about flexibility and fitting your working time into your life so whilst we would like some consistency with hours spread across the week, we are happy to discuss a working pattern and part-time hours that would suit you. Some work can be done remotely but we are looking for a presence at our client's premises in SN5, West Swindon on a weekly basis.

Salary: c£37,500 per annum, pro-rata.

Robinson Grace HR Consultancy is an award-winning small consultancy based in Swindon, supporting small organisations, many in the not-for-profit sector, with pragmatic, high-quality HR and Health & Safety support and guidance. As we continue to grow, we are looking for an experienced HR Consultant who specialises in Learning & Development and Coaching to join our friendly, supportive team. If you would be interested in maintaining your self-employed status instead of joining as an employee, we would consider this option for this particular role if preferred.

The role: You will lead on learning, development and coaching solutions for a varied client base, while also providing generalist HR support. This is a hands-on, client-facing consultancy role with responsibility for designing and delivering L&D programmes, online training sessions, coaching leaders and employees.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Designing and delivering L&D workshops, first-time manager development programmes, and online training sessions
• Job description and person spec development for projects such as restructures, job matching and consultation programmes
• Providing performance, leadership and career guidance and coaching
• Delivering strategic and operational HR support across the employee life-cycle
• Managing client relationships to exceed expectations
• Supporting new business activity through attending and potentially running networking events and building community groups
• Leading webinars, and video content for our YouTube channel and social media soundbites

About you: You will be no shrinking violet. We are looking for a confident, credible HR professional who thrives in training sessions and creating video content, with a passion for learning and development.

Essential:

• Level 5 CIPD qualification minimum
• Significant experience in L&D design and delivery, including running impactful online training
• Strong performance management and career coaching background
• Working alongside the wider team of HR Consultants and Administrators to deliver a seamless full HR service to clients.
• Comfortable advising on employee engagement, and wellbeing initiatives
• A very good standard of written English, grammar, and punctuation.
• A clear understanding of up-to-date employment legislation and HR best practice in relation to key HR processes
• A knowledge of the pressure points for small business owners
• Senior generalist HR experience - we are a busy consultancy and aim that every HR Consultant can play to their strengths, so if you have a specialism or specific interest, we want to encourage you to use it
• Excellent stakeholder relationship building and organisational skills
• Driving licence and transport - whilst driving requirements are not regular, our offices are not on a regular bus route, and some work on site with clients will be required.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and working within GDPR guidelines.
• The ability to adapt to changing circumstances, new ideas and take on new tasks.
• Confident and comfortable in delivering training, presentations, webinars both face to face and online.
• Likes dogs - Chester our Wellbeing Champion is in the office most days, so you will need to be comfortable with dogs

Desirable:

• HR consultancy and/or SME experience
• Client account management experience
• Confident with IT: working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook email and ideally Asana.
• A clear understanding of up-to-date employment legislation and HR best practice in relation to key HR processes
• Experience of job evaluation and, or competency-based pay frameworks is desirable
• Qualified and experienced in mediation would be helpful
• Coaching qualification
• Experience of planning and managing recruitment campaigns would be beneficial

We offer:

• Flexible, part-time working
• Friendly, collaborative, growing consultancy culture
• Development opportunities
• Varied client work and development opportunities
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)

Please include a covering letter with your CV, setting out your preferred hours and pattern of work when applying. Please note that whilst we aim to provide exceptional flexibility, squashing part-time hours into two consecutive days simply doesn’t work for our clients.