HR Advisor (21.5 hours) in Portsmouth

We’re VIVID! – We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people! We’re also in Best Companies top 100 companies to work for!

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a dynamic role where you can hit the ground running and make an immediate impact?

We’re looking for a proactive and dedicated HR Advisor to join our team. This role is pivotal in providing commercially focused HR support to managers, and you’ll primarily be managing employee relations cases.

This is a permanent, part-time role working 21.5 hours a week. You’ll need to be available to work on Mondays and Tuesdays, but we can be flexible about the other day or days you work. You’ll be able to work from home, although you’ll usually need to attend our Portsmouth or Basingstoke office several times a week. This will vary depending on what’s happening across the business.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• Annual discretionary company performance-related bonus, rewarding our collective success (pro rata)
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes.

Here’s the facts about the role:

In this role you’ll be the first point of contact, advising our line managers in all employee relations matters, and will be in attendance to advise in disciplinaries, sickness and grievance meetings. You’ll ensure a fair and consistent approach and advise our people on wellbeing support, working practices and terms and conditions. As well as helping us to build better futures for our customers.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide pragmatic guidance to managers on Attendance, Disciplinary, Performance management and Grievance processes
• Ensure processes and supporting documents are delivered to a high quality
• Manage a large and varied employee relations case load, ensuring cases are resolved quickly and efficiently
• Support managers in solving employee relations issues informally where possible, looking for innovative solutions
• Take an active role in delivering wider HR team strategy, ambitions, and projects
• Coach and support mangers to manage effectively, achieving strong teams that deliver departmental and corporate goals

The type of person we need:

• Demonstrable success in delivering ER cases
• Confident to give advice and voice their views
• Experience in managing a large, varied and complex employee relations case load
• Strong understanding of employment legislation
• Highly organised
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Able to travel between sites in Hampshire

If you want to be part of a fun and supportive team, working together in a fast-paced environment to deliver a great service with the opportunity to make a real impact on how our people are managed, we’d love to hear from you!

Interviews are due to take place 19 November (stage 1) and 26 November (stage 2). Subject to change.

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.

We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.

This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.