NORTH EAST (Ref 651) FTC until end March 2025 *HOME BASED*
up to £40k, 28 days holiday + bank holidays ( salary and holidays pro rata FTE)
Our client is a niche SME business, hugely successful and experiencing continued growth. The culture is positive, they genuinely live and breathe their values, with people front and centre of the business.
Working in a small team and reporting to the People & Culture Manager, in this Employee Relations focussed role, you will provide first-class generalist HR advice, guidance, coaching and support on all people-related matters.
As the business has grown, it has become evident that some managers need more guidance on people related issues to better lead their teams, ensuring consistency, and ensuring a high performance culture.
This includes:
- Absence management ensuring early intervention into Occupational Health and proactive management of sickness absence cases, ensuring all meetings are documented as appropriate
- Coach managers on how to have difficult conversations
- Coach managers to understand HR policies and processes, upskilling their knowledge and therefore ability to manage people situations effectively and consistently
- Performance management
- Disciplinary, grievance etc.
- Support with business reorganisations, consultations, contract changes etc.
- Build strong, proactive relationships with our managers across the business
- Ensure HR Policies are reviewed and updated in line with legislative and organisational changes and processes are documented and easily understood by managers and colleagues
- Using your knowledge of employee relations, provide input and support on the design and delivery of training content
- Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on key HR Metrics
Skills, experience and qualifications needed:
- CIPD Level 5 or working towards
- Complex and varied ER case management experience
- Confidence to work with managers at all levels