Senior Human Resources Advisor
Posted 4 days ago by Randstad UK
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior HR Advisor (Employee Relations) is tasked with promoting a positive work environment by assisting management in resolving workplace disputes and ensuring compliance with company policies. This role involves providing expert employee relations advice, coaching management, and delivering training sessions while maintaining a focus on fair treatment and adherence to UK employment law. The advisor will also track case management data to drive improvements and collaborate with various HR teams to meet organizational priorities.
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.
- Coaches 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 toolkits 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 whistleblowing, 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:
- Expertise in employee relations and UK employment law.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
- Ability to deliver engaging training sessions.
- Proficient in case management and data tracking.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in handling complex investigations and writing outcome letters.
- Collaborative approach to working with HR teams.
- Commercially astute with a focus on organizational values.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
Senior HR Advisor (Employee Relations) The Senior HR Advisor will be responsible for fostering a positive work environment by supporting management colleagues to resolve workplace disputes, ensuring fair treatment of employees and workers and adherence to Randstad’s policies. They will coach and provide guidance to management colleagues and employees on best practice employee relations, ensuring great customer service is given at all-times.
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.
- Coaches 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 toolkits 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 whistleblowing, 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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