HR Advisor

Mears Group PLC • Permanent • Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom • £35k / year • 18h ago

Annual salary: up to £35,000.00

HR Advisor

Location: Gloucester

Contract: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday

Salary: £35,000 per annum plus company benefits

We are looking for a HR Advisor to join our team based in Gloucester. This is a fast paced, operational HR role where you will provide pragmatic, risk assessed employee relations advice and support managers across the full employee lifecycle.

Working in a high-volume environment, you will play a key role in absence management, casework, and supporting positive employee relations. You will work closely with operational leaders to identify trends, provide insights, and deliver practical HR solutions that support both business performance and employee experience.

Mears is a leading provider of housing services and property management to local authorities and housing associations across the UK. We are committed to making a positive difference to the communities we serve, placing social value, fairness and inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role:

You will provide comprehensive HR advisory support across multiple branches, ensuring cases are managed consistently and in line with company policies and employment legislation. The role requires confidence in managing complex cases, influencing managers, and balancing commercial risk with fair outcomes.

• Provide general HR advice on our policies and procedures to all employees and managers

• Dealing with a large and varied case load which includes disciplinary, absence management, grievance and performance

• Provide detailed, pragmatic employee relations advice across the organisation

• Guide, influence, support and empower managers through advice in order to identify, understand and implement effective and commercial solutions to employee relation issues

• Ability to risk assess and prioritise HR employee relation case work

• Maintaining appropriate recording/updating of all case documentation

• Identify trends, report and escalate as appropriate using in-house HR systems

• Participate in regular case reviews with HR Team Leader to discuss complex cases, share information and best practice

• Work closely with wider HR Group to ensure a joined up seamless service

Key Criteria:

• CIPD level 3 or above is essential to the role

• Previous experience as a HR Advisor

• Experience of working in an environment with TUPE and Trade Unions is desirable but not essential

• A high level of customer service is this is the forefront of our business

• Confident user of Microsoft packages, including word and excel

• Previous use of Workday and other HR systems is desirable but not essential

• The ideal candidate must be both robust and resilient and be able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines, have the ability to multitask and to adapt their own style

Benefits

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.

• Generous Pension Scheme

• Sick Pay

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment

• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.

• All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK

• Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Joe Monger ((url removed))
If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.

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