People Advisor
United Kingdom
- Proactively working with the business to provide effective, accurate and timely professional HR advice and support to key stakeholders/leaders, ensuring guidance is in line with employment law and best practice. This relates to all people related matters, including performance management, absence management, welfare and employee relations cases.
- Supporting the embedding and evolution of the company-wide performance review process including monitoring and assessing the distribution of performance ratings, the fairness of application and lead the delivery of webinars to upskill leaders
- Coaching and building capability in line managers to manage the employment relationship effectively and guiding managers on company policies and procedures as required, running webinars or drop in surgery's as appropriate
- Supporting and guiding leaders with end-to-end case management for all employee relation cases including grievance and disciplinary hearings, probations, capability/performance management, ill-health, absence management ensuring appropriate application of employment law consideration and approach and timely closure of such cases.
- Coordinating and leading in case reviews with the People Partners, identifying key themes for improvement, identification of issues and trends within the business and agreeing actions to improve.
- Leading the people process activities and providing support for change initiatives, including acquisitions, restructures, redundancies, TUPE, redeployment and office closures.
- Conduct/assist with exit interviews and trends as and when required.
- Build strong professional effective relationships with key stakeholders with regular professional liaison and establish yourself as a credible advisor.
- Take ownership and responsibility for ad-hoc projects which align to the People & Culture strategy.
- Experience of advising leaders of people policies, risk mitigation and gathering data to make informed and fair decisions
- Ability to reduce complexity through interpreting rules/regulations and turning this into practical guidance
- Part Qualified CIPD (preferred)
- Experience of gathering people related data/information and connecting this with business operations to drive change/improvement
- Proven track record of effective stakeholder management
- Commitment to continuous professional development