HR Advisor

Job description

·  Location
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
·  Salary
£ 15 - £ 16.52 / Hour
·  Category
HR, Sales and Management - HR Adviser
·  Job type
Contractor
·  Industry
HR
·  External Reference
JN-122019-108805

Adecco Durham are recruiting for an exciting Opportunity to work within Teeside University as a HR Advisor covering Maternity leave.

Hours of Work will be Monday - Friday, pay will be dependant on experience.

You will provide an efficient solutions-focused service across the University,

delivering an effective and efficient generalist HR service to Managers, HR Business

Partners, the HR management team and client groups. You will provide professional

and comprehensive support and advice to allocated Schools and Professional

Support Service Departments, and other key stakeholders within and outside the HR

Department, on all aspects of HR and specifically on employee relations matters

consistent with internal processes and legal requirements to build strong and

effective working relationships.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. To provide advice and guidance to School and Professional Support Service

Department based management on staff conditions of service, local working

practices and the University's HR policies and procedures, supporting and

complementing the work of the HR Business Partners to ensure

comprehensive advice to managers at each stage of the University's HR

employee relations procedures and processes.

2. To proactively contribute and work to the HR Annual Plan objectives, for

which the HR Business Partner has primary responsibility, ensuring that

delegated objectives are met in line with the plan and highlighting risks to

delivery to enable successful delivery of the Plan.

3. To provide accurate, effective and pragmatic advice and guidance to

Managers on the management of employee relations issues, such as

employment contracts and conditions, employment law, the University's HR

policies and procedures and cases, as delegated by the HR Business Partner,

such as performance management, discipline, capability, grievances and

sickness absence, delivering proactive support to allocated Schools,

Professional Support Service Departments and other customers and

colleagues, ensuring delivery of a professional and efficient customer service,

informing and escalating issues to the HR Business Partner and obtaining

legal advice from Legal and Governance Services where necessary.

4. To assist the HR Business Partner in obtaining, reviewing and analysing

customer feedback, ensuring standards and the customer experience, are

continuously improved, effectively managing and responding to high volume

information requests and queries, providing efficient and accurate responses

in line with expected standards of service.

5. To maintain and manage an HR/Employee Relations caseload to ensure that

cases are resolved in a timely and efficient manner, handling the majority of

informal and formal casework, supporting investigation processes and

advising line managers, dealing with potentially delicate situations or with

demanding customers, in an appropriate and professional manner, liaising

with the trade unions on individual casework and or projects, as directed by

the HR Business Partner and/or Deputy Director of HR.

6. To support the Executive Director of HR, Deputy Director of HR and HR

Business Partners in relation to the arrangement, conduct and completion of

formal casework, ensuring effective liaison with all parties.

7. To provide advice and guidance on complex sickness absence and

Occupational Health queries which have proceeded from initial stages

handled by the HR Officer; supporting line managers at sickness absence

meetings, monitoring, recording and updating the HR Business Partner on the

progress of individual cases, providing guidance to employees and line

managers on the University's sickness absence processes and associated

activities, including supporting managers and HR Business Partners on the

procedures for Occupational Health referrals and liaising with the University's

Occupational Health Adviser concerning referrals to the Occupational Health

Adviser and to the external Occupational Health Physician/Occupational

Health Psychologist Service, with reference to the HR Business Partner,

following up with line managers on recommended actions. This includes

assessing absence and attendance data, as provided by the HR Officer, and

acting as a coach for managers to enable them to address attendance

concerns and manage performance.

8. As necessary, represent HR on recruitment and selection interview panels for

posts within the designated portfolio and participate as a panel member in the

selection process, with the expectation to advise the chair on the design of the

selection process and the use of the most effective and relevant selection

techniques.

9. To assist in the redesign of working practices to increase efficiency by

identifying core current approaches, envisioning future processes and ways of

working, inputting to the revision and development of policies and processes,

collaborating with the HR Policies, Projects, Rewards and Benefits Manager

to enable successful implementation of new/revised polices and processes.

10. To conduct gap analysis to understand what needs to change to move from

current practice to future practice, exploring customer needs by asking

pertinent questions to provide the customer with the optimum level of service.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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