HR Advisor

Salary £32,939 - £34,979 per annum + Excellent benefits

Location Walsall, West Midlands

The vacancy

Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 28 July 2021

We have an exciting opportunity for an HR Advisor to join our People Services team. In this role, you will provide generalist HR advice to managers and colleagues, ensuring that employee relations issues are handled effectively and sensitively.

Main job responsibilities:

Provide professional and pragmatic advice to managers and colleagues in relation to employment relations issues and other people related activities.
Manage a range of employment relations cases to satisfactory conclusion, ensuring compliance with relevant employment legislation, policies, procedures and timescales.
Advise and support managers to effectively manage sickness absence in line with policy and operational KPIs.
Analyse sickness and other casework data to determine trends and proactively recommend and undertake improvement activities.
Coach and empower line managers to deliver a sustained improvement in the management of employment relations issues with a focus on informal and early resolution.
Work closely with HR Business Partners, L&D Advisors and the wider People Services team to support organisational initiatives and provide feedback on relevant developments.

We're looking for someone who has:

Experience of managing complex employee relations cases (including disciplinaries, grievances, appeals, capability and sickness) to successful completion, up to and including dismissal.
Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and case law.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence at all levels.
Experience of analysing and interrogating information, comfortable with using a range of HR systems and MS Office.
The ability to manage a varied case load from end to end often with limited supervision.
Qualified to CIPD Level 5 or qualified by significant experience.

What’s in it for you?

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

About whg

We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality
homes.

Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of
supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to
uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on
it. We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively
and be passionate about their work.

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, being dedicated to doing the right thing, and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable being themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

Our benefits

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Health cash plan