HR Advisor

Morson Edge • Temporary • Rochester, Medway, England, United Kingdom • £20 / hour • 2h ago

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an HR Advisor to contribute to the overall success of the HR strategy by delivering a proactive and customer focused HR service across BAE Systems Rochester. This would involve providing effective support, guidance and advice to managers and employees on a wide variety of HR matters such as employee relations, policies and procedures, data analytics and delivery of key projects.

You will be pro-active, able to prioritise & work in a fast-paced environment. The ability to communicate effectively at all levels will be essential.

Duties will involve
- Provide high quality HR advice and guidance directly to managers to facilitate the early resolution of difficult, complex or sensitive employee relations issues, ensuring that the risks associated with such cases are effectively managed.
- Advise and coach managers on the application and interpretation of HR policies and procedures in accordance with current and proposed employment legislation and local arrangements, to ensure consistency, accuracy and best practice.
- Support the management of complex employee cases relating to disciplinary, grievance and sickness absence. This includes providing advice to managers on policy/procedure and legislation, liaising with Occupational Health, supporting formal investigations and hearings.
- Build good working relationships with all line managers in order to better understand their needs and provide appropriate HR related support.
- Ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of employee relations issues by maintaining effective relationships across the business including the Trade Union as required
- Manage sickness absence in collaboration with managers, assisting staff back to work and working with managers to reduce sickness absence across the organisation.
- Support the delivery of an excellent onboarding journey for new starters including facilitating inductions, undertaking new starter reviews and our quarterly onboarding session run by the Site Director
- Undertake exit interviews as required
- Deliver training for line managers within the functional business are such as absence management, performance management etc.
- Support recruitment activities within business area such as interviews and assessment centres if required
- Provide updates on key changes to policies/ processes/ new initiatives and any trends identified in metrics
- Actively contribute to the development and implementation of new policies, procedures and practices and review in line with legislation, current best practice or Company-wide changes
- Lead on discrete operational projects which improve service delivery, including supporting with the development of team objectives and KPI’s.
- Support HR subject matter ‘Leads’ on a rotational basis to deliver an effective service to the business such as Performance, Recruitment, Talent and Development, Employee Relations etc.
- Produce, interpret and manage information and reports as required to enable effective use of data to inform HR activity and support business requirements
- Support the wider HR Team in implementing and embedding new strategies and initiatives across the organisation and undertaking continuous improvement within the HR function
- Support with the day to day running of the HR team as required including running regular reports, maintaining SharePoint, reviewing the HR inbox.

Key accountabilities
- Providing a source of competent and comprehensive HR advice to managers.
- Engage with others and coach them to appropriately consider HR during decision making.
- Support the development and the deployment of HR policies and procedures.
- There will be no people management as part of this role.

Knowledge and experience:-
- The role requires an individual with experience of working in an HR department in either an HR Officer or HR Advisor role.
- The role holder will hold an in depth understanding and experience of HR policies and procedures, internal and external best practice and able to bring their experience to articulate these in order to ensure effective deployment within their work area.
- The role requires practical knowledge and experience of HR administrative procedures to support effective HR delivery.
- The role requires a good understanding of how to influence others in order to operationalise, integrate and deliver HR processes, projects and change in a business through experience of advising and supporting managers on a range of employee relations matters to an appropriate conclusion.
- Strong knowledge and practical experience of applying employment legislation and best practice is essential.
- Experience of dealing with matters confidentially and sensitively with a sound knowledge of GDPR.
- Knowledge and understanding of Trade Unions and experience working alongside them would be advantageous.
- Knowledge and experience of working with HRIS and data analytics would also be advantageous.

Qualifications:
CIPD qualified to level 3/level 5 is essential or equivalent.

Skills:
- Good communication skills (both verbally and in writing), able to engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, often with a degree of sensitivity.
- Able to demonstrate integrity, honesty and confidentiality to gain the confidence and respect of others

- Able to build effective and productive relationships with managers and employees across the business.

- You will be able to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations and have the ability to apply skills and knowledge to a range of problems and issues.

The role holder should have the ability to produce accurate management information and data and strong IT skills particularly relating to Microsoft Office applications

This role is working 37 hours a week and will be 4 days a week on site.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

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