Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Job Title: Senior HR Advisor

Location: Home based with 1 day a week in either our Camberley or Worthing Head Office depending on candidate's location, and occasional field-based travel for meetings

Brand: LRG

Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm

Salary
: £38,500

About Us:

LRG are an award-winning national property company, who are going through exciting periods of growth and offer tailored training and development programmes at all levels. With over 300 branches across England and Wales we have a reputation for perfection and delivering an outstanding customer experience. Investment in people is built into our culture, and there are opportunities for driven individuals to achieve their career aspirations within the company.

Job Summary and key responsibilities

This role will provide a diplomatic, collaborative and discreet individual with ample scope to make their mark and impress at a growing brand that’s fully committed to staff satisfaction and career development. We’re looking for a motivated, driven, organised and meticulous team player to join our HR team. You will be committed to carrying out your duties with integrity and confidentiality, and to maintaining and expanding your already impressive knowledge of employment legislation.

Key Responsibilities:

Employee Relations

• Be the ER support for investigations - formal grievances/disciplinaries

• Lead on major restructures

• Lead on appeals from HR Advisor level cases

• Review relevant people data and partner with regions on ER topics to support in achieving business objectives

• Support with litigation cases

Team Support and Deputising

• Mentor HR Advisors

• Support the HR Advisor Team Leader as required

• Deputise for the HR Advisor Team Leader role during annual leave

• Point of escalation for HR Advisor queries

• Review of stage 1 outcomes for HR Advisors

• Be part of the HR Advisor team cover during leave

• Attendance at quarterly HR team meetings in either Camberley or Worthing

Other Key Responsibilities

• Deliver training sessions to team and wider business

• Attend regional meetings on an ad-hoc basis (circa once a quarter)

• Support with and lead on HR projects

• Support in upskilling managers on HR best practice and ER capability

• Support with attrition review and actions

• Proactively identify improvements within the HR function and support with implementing any required actions

• Be part of the HR acquisition integration team providing support to new managers and colleagues joining through TUPE

What are we looking for:

Essential

• At least 3 years of recent HR Advisor experience, expertly advising on employee relations matters whilst applying employment legislation

• Experience in running ER cases such as disciplinaries, absence management, grievances, redundancies and capability processes

• Experience in advising on and implementing business changes such as restructures and redundancy processes

• Strong UK employment law knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills, with experience of building and managing productive relationships with a range of stakeholders

• Experience of managing and interpreting data

• Strong organisational and time management skills in order to manage multiple ER cases simultaneously and with great attention to detail

• Experience of working with HR databases

• Experience of working within a team

• Strong experience of report writing using software such as Microsoft Word

• Ability to be flexible, successfully adapting to changing business needs while delivering excellent service to all stakeholders

• Ability to work under pressure in a busy and complex role

• Willingness to work flexibly when needed

Desirable

• CIPD qualified or working towards qualification

• Multi-site experience from a central location would be advantageous

What we can offer you:

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