Job Details

HR ADVISOR - FTC

Sector:HR & Training

Region : North West England

Location: Oldham

Salary: £32000

Job Ref.: 50881723

Job Information

Interim HR Advisor – Maternity Leave Cover – 9 – 12 months ftc

Responsible for supporting the People team to deliver a comprehensive and efficient HR service in line with company policies and best practice and acting as first point of contact for your business areas proactively delivering a range of people centric solutions. 

Role Responsibilities

- Provide a comprehensive advisory support service to managers and employees on all colleague queries, providing support and advice in line with company policies & best practice;
- Provide proactive advisor support for sickness absence, grievance, disciplinary, capability cases, including note taking and producing various correspondence letters to bring matters to fruition in a timely manner;
- Coordinating and scheduling individual case management referrals with Occupational Health so that employees can return to work effectively and appropriately;
- Provide guidance and support to Line Managers to facilitate the end-to-end process of the onboarding and job changes process ensuring all records are accurately recorded and HRIS  is up to date;
- To work with the Payroll Specialist to ensure payroll changes are accurately completed and forwarded throughout the month/year to meet agreed deadlines for key milestones such as monthly pay runs and year end accounts;
- Assisting with policy development, understanding changes in legislation, and providing support to implement appropriate changes within the business;
- Assist the People Business Partners to ensure that the reward and remuneration practices are consistently applied and administered, so that members can access the respective portals and systems especially in relation to pensions, healthcare, colleague awards schemes and Live Well programme;
- Owning the complete maternity, paternity and parental leave processes providing advice and support to managers and colleagues;
- Co-ordinating recruitment for stages of the recruitment process ensuring that the candidate journey successfully attracts and retains a diverse range of talented candidates.  Activities include (but are not limited to), advertising vacancies, managing the e-recruitment system, supporting managers with their recruitment, and providing guidance on questions for interviewers;
- Provide accurate data which can be interpreted to provide the organisation with key management information;

Essential Requirements

- CIPD Level 3 qualified and/or studying toward Level 5 
- Operational advisory experience minimum 2 years, if possible within a social housing environment.
- Outstanding communication and customer service skills
- Able to build relationships with managers and coach them through key processes
- Close attention to detail with a focus on delivering quality results consistently, accurately and on time
- Must be motivated, enthusiastic and show initiative, with an ability to work unsupervised
- Experienced in the use of HR related systems, highly proficient in Microsoft Office products, in particular Word and Excel
- Strong MI, presentation and reporting skills