HR Advisor - ER

Would you like to work for an organisation where progression and development is encouraged?

Do you have experience of being involved in employee relations cases end-to-end?

And are you able to spend 2 days a week in a central Leeds based office? Working the other 3 roles from home?

We are recruiting for a permanent HR Advisor (ER) role for a service industry business that operates across the UK with a large number of employees. The role is heavily ER focused and will involve effectively managing a wide variety of sometimes complex cases across. It will provide candidates with exposure to a broad range of employee relations cases as part of a HR team.

The ideal candidate will have exposure to managing employee relations cases end-to-end at high volumes. It might suit somebody already at Advisor level or somebody with good ER experience looking to progress into an Advisor level role. The role is based in Leeds City Centre and offers hybrid working (2 days minimum in the office weekly and the ability to work the other 3 from home).

On top of a salary of £32,000 to £35,000 is a fantastic benefits package including 27 days holiday (+bank holidays), an enhanced pension, CIPD study support and career progression.

Role overview:

• Provide advice on the application of and adherence to all statutory and contractual HR legislation, policies and procedures.
• Support the HR Manager in analysing complex HR casework relating to disciplinary action, grievances, assessing and recommending action to ensure effective resolution.
• Organise, schedule and participate in investigation meetings, disciplinary, grievance and appeal hearings.
• Support the Governance team and Line Managers to prepare for investigations, hearings, appeals and ensure that the documents are robust and appropriate
• Provide support and guidance for panel member/s of hearings (including appeals) ensuring adherence to procedure. This will include attending and chairing meetings.
• Support Employment Tribunal claims, including preparing ET1 etc and liaison with Legal advisors.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders across the business.
• Contribute to the development of organisational policies and procedures relating to employment law
• Undertake research to keep updated of and interpret employment legislation, developing and implementing Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Assist employees with Occupational Health support and assessing reasonable adjustments
• Work closely with HR Assistants, providing support with employee relations administration.
• Lead in projects agreed by the HR management team to improve the delivery of service.
• Produce comprehensive factual investigation reports and drafts appropriate response and outcome letters
• Provide and run training on Employee Relations related issues including classroom training, coaching and bespoke one to one sessions depending on the needs of a manager and the Client Relations Team.
• Maintain HR database systems and produce reports to support business activity as and when required.
• Work with HR Projects team to manage change management and TUPE projects providing advice and support in line with legislation and policies.
• Manages portfolio of DBS cases and presents cases file to the Risk Assessment Panel at weekly meetings.
• Identify and manage complex cases that require formal action that may require disciplinary hearing and referral to relevant statutory bodies

Candidate requirements:

• Previous experience in a HR capacity
• Ideally CIPD qualified or studying towards
• Good knowledge of UK employment law
• Experience of conducting disciplinary and grievance processes

Please get in touch with Chris Jones to discuss this role further as we're actively recruiting for this role now, with our client looking to interview people asap and start the right person as soon as possible too.

Think Human Resources is the HR division of Think Specialist Recruitment, an independently owned recruitment business. The HR division is responsible for recruiting permanent, temporary and contract roles within the field of Human Resources including; HR Administrator, HR Assistant, HR Advisor, HR Business Partner, HR Manager, Head of HR, Employee Relations, talent, internal recruitment, Learning and Development, Compensation and Benefits/Reward and Recognition.