HR Advisor

As a People Advisor at Honeycomb Houses, your main responsibilities would include:

• Coaching and supporting managers/colleagues with employee relations matters, including performance management, probation reviews, grievances, investigations, and wellbeing conversations. Promoting good employee relations and high performance across our 12 houses.
• Manage absence management processes and reporting, including long-term cases.
• Build supervisors’ and managers’ people leadership capabilities through coaching and development workshops, building confidence and capability in handling employee lifecycle matters.
• Work collaboratively with the HR and leadership team to drive consistency and best practice across the employee lifecycle from recruitment, onboarding, learning & development, promotions and payroll changes.
• Ensure compliance by maintaining HR systems and records, supporting reporting requirements, and ensuring all people practices and policies meet legal and company standards.
• Champion colleague engagement and recognition via our recognition and benefits platform. Support with communications, celebrations, awards, events and employee initiatives.
• Help identify talent and development opportunities across the business.
• Attract and welcome new starters by supporting recruitment and onboarding activities, ensuring employees have a positive experience.
• Support the People Plan by helping Honeycomb Houses attract, develop, engage and retain exceptional people.

To be a successful People Advisor, you will:

• Have at least 1 year’s HR advisor/generalist experience, ideally within a customer-focused environment.
• CIPD Level 5 is desired but not essential, strong knowledge of UK employment law, HR policy and best practice, with experience handling ER matters is essential for this role.
• A passion for people, with the ability to build positive relationships and provide exceptional support to colleagues and managers.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to handle sensitive and confidential matters professionally and discreetly.
• Confidence using HR systems.
• Providing expert guidance across the full employee lifecycle. You’ll be hands-on, partnering day‑to‑day with managers.
• Have a driving licence and car
• Giving Back- passion and pride to support colleagues, the local community and creating a fantastic experience for our guests is what gets you up in the morning.
• Make It Fun - a good level of self‑motivation, organisational and leadership skill, setting a great example for the wider team, you lead from the front.
• Do the Right Thing - empowered to make a good decision, think on your feet and problem solve. Be able to enjoy yourself and get along fantastically with fellow members of our Honeycomb family!
• Trust- you are committed to delivering what you promise. Communicating openly and confidently with the team and guests.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Brakspear family as the People Advisor for our managed estate Honeycomb Houses.

At Brakspear, we’re passionate about great pubs and inns. Our family has been running pubs and inns for over 200 years. We’re lucky to have beautiful pubs but we think it’s the people, running the pubs who matter, and that means we do things differently  are still family‑owned and run, which means we make all our decisions for the long‑term benefit of our company, our pub business owners and our guests.

Honeycomb Houses is born‑and‑bred from our parent company, Brakspear, which came to life all the way back in 1779. Each of our 12 houses stands independently with their own distinctive features and charm, while maintaining the high standards associated with Honeycomb Houses.

Working closely with operational managers across our 12 Honeycomb Houses and Head Office teams, you will provide expert HR guidance across a broad range of employee relations and people management matters. This is a highly visible, predominately field‑based role where relationship building and coaching are key. The role is full time and reports into the Head of People.

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