You will be assisting in a variety of activities from ER cases to recruitment, onboarding and policy support This role is the perfect opportunity for someone to be exposed to a breadth of strategic and day to day HR activities.
Purpose of Job:
* Responsible for providing a combination of strategic and operational HR and employment law advice and guidance
* Providing a coaching role to business owners / managers with their HR issues
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide Employment Law and HR advice to clients to enable compliance in all areas of employment policy and legislation including disciplinary, grievance, restructure, redundancy, performance and sickness absence management
* Producing step by step advice and guidance along with all necessary letters and/or documentation
* Develop employee relations plans, policies and practices for clients, ensuring they are legally compliant and support the achievement of client goals
* Manage employee relations cases, advising on resolution, undertaking or supporting investigations as appropriate and facilitating formal proceedings.
* Support clients in making operational efficiency improvements, developing commercial and legally sound business case and strategy.
* Coach clients in understanding and complying with ER policies and practices, ensuring employment disputes are avoided or minimised
* Foster constructive relationships with clients, partners and associates including Unions, Acas and referral partners.
Key Personal Requirements
* Member of the CIPD. Level 5 as a minimum.
* Ability to lead and influence others in the organisation and clients
* Specialised knowledge in a full generalist HR role
* Strong up-to-date employment law knowledge
* Knowledge of HR systems and databases
* Experience of developing people strategy in a forward thinking organisation
* Passionate about excellent customer service
* Proactive in identifying and meeting client’s needs
* Understanding of the needs of small and medium business owners/managers
* Commercial acumen
* Strong organisational and time management skills
* Ability to work without supervision
* The ability to communicate, work effectively and build relationships with internal teams, clients and stakeholders at all levels
* Ability to make timely and informed decisions and understanding of when to escalate issues.
* Takes initiative and practices good judgment
* Adapts quickly to changing circumstances and develops creative solutions while building consensus among different functional groups.
In return our client is offering a salary of c£35,000 - £40,000pa, 20 days holiday, plus bank holidays plus Christmas week off, flexible approach to hours Monday – Friday (Typically 09:00 – 17:00). There is also ZERO out of hours working beyond your working week.
There also a huge opportunity for further learning and development and support with further accreditations.
*Please kindly note, whilst we endeavour to respond to all candidate applications, due to the very high response rate across our various advertising campaigns, we may only be able to reply to candidates who match the position, thank you.
About us:
Alchem Partners are a UK based, international Search business, we pride ourselves on a personable and process driven approach ensuring the very best levels of service.
As acknowledged specialists in a number of disciplines, we support the Chemical and associated industries by providing a truly consultative service to our clients and candidates alike
Salary description
£35000.00 - £40000.00 per year