DARLINGTON (Ref 673) PERMANENT *2 VACANCIES*
Circa £36k + 40 days holiday + 17.5 % pension!!
We are delighted to once again partner with our client, to build their People function and recruit 2 People Partners. Reporting to the Director of People & Culture, the People Partners will deliver a proactive and professional service to the business, providing guidance and support to managers across the whole employee lifecycle. This includes -
- Recruitment and onboarding
- Employee engagement and wellbeing
- Talent management and workforce planning
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Reward and recognition
- Absence management
- Employee relations
- Employee exits
This involves
- Support the management of complex employee relations cases relating to disciplinary, grievance, performance and sickness absence
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with Senior Leaders and have a collaborative and pro-active approach to solving people issues
- As part of the People team, develop a range of learning and development events and programmes relating to HR
- Deliver a range of training workshops to managers to enable them to manage people issues such as recruitment, performance management, disciplinary and capability issues and absence management, and supporting them in delivery of these people management issues
- Participate in project work to support the delivery of the Strategic Plan - there's lots of opportunity to be involved in exciting projects
- Contribute to the preparation of the monthly payroll, responding to queries raised by Finance colleagues. You will be trained in payroll processing to ensure cross cover and robust procedures for inputting and checking payroll information
Your background
- Qualification in Human Resources Management (Level 5 or above) or equivalent experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Office programmes
- Experience of using HR and Payroll systems
- Ability to collate, manage and analyse data to provide organisational insight through trends and themes
- Proactive and solutions focused to achieve results
- Ability to coach and advise managers and employees on all people matters
- Proven record of collaborative working with Executive/Senior Management and external stakeholders
- Thorough knowledge of employee relations, employment legislation, policy and procedure
- Ability to interpret policies, procedures and situations to identify pragmatic solutions and recommendations