Senior HR Advisor
Posted 7 days ago by Hays
£41,500 Per year
Undetermined
Onsite
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior HR Advisor role in the education sector based in Leeds involves delivering a high-quality HR service focused on people. The position requires collaboration with leadership to foster a positive and inclusive culture while ensuring compliance with HR policies and practices. The advisor will provide expert guidance on various HR matters and uphold safeguarding practices. This operational role includes handling investigations, disciplinary actions, and employee relations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver a high-quality, people-focused HR service across the organization.
- Support the development of a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
- Provide expert guidance on employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, payroll, and compliance.
- Ensure safeguarding and safer recruitment practices are upheld.
- Handle investigations, hearings, disciplinary actions, grievances, and redundancy processes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and managers on HR matters.
Key Skills:
- Experience in HR advisory roles.
- Strong knowledge of HR policies and practices.
- Ability to provide expert guidance on employee relations and compliance.
- Experience with investigations and disciplinary processes.
- Familiarity with safeguarding and safer recruitment practices.
- Previous experience dealing with trade unions (advantageous but not essential).
Salary (Rate): £41,500.00 yearly
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: HR
Senior HR Advisor Education Sector Leeds - Based on site full-time, no hybrid work available £37,000 - £41,500 Working hours can be flexible from 30 hours per week to 37.5.
Your new role
As a Senior HR Advisor, you will play a vital role in delivering a high-quality, people-focused HR service across the organisation. Working closely with the Directors of People and the wider HR team, you will support the development of a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture. Your work will directly contribute to our strategic vision by ensuring our people's policies, practices, and processes are effective, compliant, and supportive of staff wellbeing and development. You will be a trusted advisor to our leaders and managers, providing expert guidance on a wide range of HR matters including employee relations, recruitment, onboarding, payroll and compliance. You will also ensure that safeguarding and safer recruitment practices are rigorously upheld.
This is a varied and hands-on operational role with involvement in the following :Investigations and hearings, disciplinary, grievance, capability, sickness, redundancy, settlement agreements, TUPE etc. Previous experience of dealing with trade unions would be advantageous but isn't essential.
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