Senior HR Advisor

Senior HR Advisor

Hours: 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday

Pay: £30,000 p.a.

Based: Swindon

We provide outsourced HR support to a range of businesses throughout the UK. Our clients operate in various business sectors including financial services, hospitality, technology, property, professional services and not for profit. We offer a full HR service offering with a major focus on employee relations issues (disciplines, grievances, redundancies), performance management, recruitment, training and development. 

Our people are exceptional HR professionals, with expert employment law knowledge. They also have to demonstrate a high degree of commercial awareness and an understanding of how HR fits with our client's commercial needs.

The Post

The Senior HR Advisor will report to the HR Business Partner and will support our prestigious London clients.

Other Responsibilities

• Providing advice to clients on all aspects of HR, particularly employee relations matters, over the telephone and via email
• Creating and issuing documents which support the specialist advice provided to clients
• Chairing formal meetings on behalf of clients
• Updating and developing company policies, procedures and handbooks to ensure compliance with employment law and good HR practice
• Managing client recruitment campaigns and providing assistance at interviews
• Liaising with clients to further enhance strong business relations
• Following up on new leads and opportunities with new and existing clients
• Assisting the HR Business Partner with redundancy programmes and TUPE matters
• Commercial Client administration.

Candidate Requirements

Knowledge, Education and Experience Required

• Minimum Level 5 CIPD qualified
• Graduate calibre. A graduate or master’s degree in HRM or related subject is desirable
• Strong UK employment law knowledge
• HR experience over various business sectors is desirable.
• Commercially aware of the needs of small businesses
• Good MS Office skills – Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Competencies needed for role

Customer (internal and external) Focus

• Develops and sustains productive customer relationships.
• Readily adjusts priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands.
• Quickly and effectively solves customer problems.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with customers.

Communication

• Presents information well and accurately, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrates very effective listening, questioning and interpersonal skills.

Attention to Detail

• Performs tasks with care, makes few if any errors.
• Checks work to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Remains aware and takes care of details that are easy to overlook or dismiss as insignificant.

Prioritising

• Prioritises tasks by importance and deadline.  Discerns what is crucial from what is urgent. 
• Adjusts priorities as situations change.
• Makes reasonable time estimates to ensure goals are achieved or complete projects when necessary.

Professionalism

• Able to self-motivate and self-organise.
• Takes initiative to solve problems and drive work forward.
• Strives to provide a professional approach to all work.