Senior HR Advisor - 1 Year FTC Mat Cover - Remote

Senior HR Advisor - 1 Year FTC Mat Cover - Remote

Posted 1 week ago by Randstad Internal Resourcer

Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK

Summary: The Senior HR Advisor role at Randstad is a 12-month fixed-term contract focused on employee relations, requiring a candidate with significant experience in this area. The position involves providing expert ER advice, coaching stakeholders, and managing complex cases while collaborating with the HR team. The role is remote and aims to support the leadership team in enhancing management capabilities and ensuring compliance with UK employment law.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provides credible and expert, commercially astute ER advice to stakeholders across the business of all levels on the full spectrum of day-to-day ER issues, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance, absence, TUPE, redundancy, reasonable adjustments and more, together with areas of complex ER.
  • Ensures advice is tailored to suit the relevant employment status of the individual (employee, worker), taking account of appropriate and relevant employment and organisational risks.
  • Ensures cases are properly and accurately tracked on the case management tracker and takes ownership to ensure that case data is reviewed and used to drive actionable change.
  • Coach stakeholders across the business on ER matters, enhancing management and leadership capability along the way, ensuring decisions are made in line with organisational values.
  • Has a good understanding of UK employment law and actively works to share recent case law with the team, or stays updated on any case law that is shared with the team by others.
  • Delivers ER learning sessions in a confident and engaging manner.
  • Works collaboratively with other members of the ER Team, the HRBPs and members of the wider HR Team to deliver on key priorities which are set by the Head of ER or HRLT.
  • Uses insights from cases to inform feedback which is given to the Head of ER that influences future policy reviews and helps to create line management tool-kits where needed.
  • Is able to complete or advise on complex investigations, taking account of the range of skills needed and report findings back in a professional way, making use of the available templates, which considers the risks of different outcomes.
  • Is able to write professional and compelling outcome letters on complex ER cases, including whistle blowing, sexual harassment and discrimination.
  • Ensures effective management of ER cases, working in accordance with ER Team success metrics.
  • Works with the Head of ER to complete projects, as required.

Key Skills:

  • Significant experience in employee relations at a senior level.
  • Strong understanding of UK employment law.
  • Ability to provide expert advice on complex ER issues.
  • Excellent coaching and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience in delivering training sessions.
  • Strong analytical skills for case management and policy development.
  • Effective communication and writing skills for professional documentation.

Salary (Rate): £41,000 Annual

City: Luton

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: HR

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior HR Advisor/Employee Relations - 12 Month FTC - Mat Cover - Remote - December start

Join our team and experience a culture where you'll be challenged to grow, empowered to lead, and supported to perform at your best. Randstad are a global leader in the world of HR services, and have a vision to be the world's most equitable and specialized talent company.We specialise in Operational, Professional, Digital, and Enterprise talent solutions. Through our 'partner for talent' global strategy we aim to offer the best service and partner with clients and candidates.

Our employee value proposition 'together we grow' details our commitment to every member of the Randstad team. We believe in equitable opportunities for all and provide a transparent and competitive compensation structure that rewards your contributions. With Randstad, you'll be part of something bigger, making a lasting impact on both our clients and the individuals we connect with. Together, we'll unlock your potential and build a brighter future for everyone.

Randstad is recruiting for an extremely exciting position within the organisation, a 12 month maternity cover as a Senior HR Advisor, we are looking for a candidate with a passion for HR. The role will have a large focus on employee relations so experience operating at senior level withing ER is essential

You will work with the Employee relations manager to support our leadership team and influence managers in all things employee relations

Role Description and key requirements:

  • Provides credible and expert, commercially astute ER advice to stakeholders across the business of all levels on the full spectrum of day-to-day ER issues, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance, absence, TUPE, redundancy, reasonable adjustments and more, together with areas of complex ER.
  • Ensures advice is tailored to suit the relevant employment status of the individual (employee, worker), taking account of appropriate and relevant employment and organisational risks.
  • Ensures cases are properly and accurately tracked on the case management tracker and takes ownership to ensure that case data is reviewed and used to drive actionable change.
  • Coach stakeholders across the business on ER matters, enhancing management and leadership capability along the way, ensuring decisions are made in line with organisational values.
  • Has a good understanding of UK employment law and actively works to share recent case law with the team, or stays updated on any case law that is shared with the team by others
  • Delivers ER learning sessions in a confident and engaging manner.
  • Works collaboratively with other members of the ER Team, the HRBPs and members of the wider HR Team to deliver on key priorities which are set by the Head of ER or HRLT.
  • Uses insights from cases to inform feedback which is given to the Head of ER that influences future policy reviews and helps to create line management tool-kits where needed.
  • Is able to complete or advise on complex investigations, taking account of the range of skills needed and report findings back in a professional way, making use of the available templates, which considers the risks of different outcomes.
  • Is able to write professional and compelling outcome letters on complex ER cases, including whistle blowing, sexual harassment and discrimination.
  • Ensures effective management of ER cases, working in accordance with ER Team success metrics.
  • Works with the Head of ER to complete projects, as required.

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