HR Advisor

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• Immediate start temporary contract |Public sector organisation, salary up to £40k

• Provide advice to managers and staff on terms and conditions of employment, Human Resource policies and procedures, employment legislation, pay, work life balance initiatives available, conditions of service and contractual matters, ensuring up-to-date knowledge of NHS terms and conditions and/or other changes introduced in addition to existing terms. Ensuring good practice and supporting a just and learning culture.
• To provide a high quality professional Human Resource service for all groups of staff employed by The Trust and liaise with the Assistant HR Business Partner/HR Business Partner regarding any areas of concern.
• Co-ordinate casework, support investigations, advising managers on performance management, absence, capability, grievance, organisational change and misconduct issues, compiling data and recommending ways forward, that may be complex/sensitive. Ensuring that appropriate timeframes are met in accordance with the workforce KPI’s. To ensure relevant Assistant HR Business Partner/HR Business Partner are appraised on progress of each case.
• Supporting managers as an investigatory team, taking part in meetings, formal hearings and producing notes, formal minutes and reports. Ensuring this is compliant with law, policy and good practice.
• To oversee the co-ordination of hearings and participate in disciplinary, grievance, capability and appeal panels as appropriate.
• Provide support and advice to managers dealing with long and short term absences including ill health retirement and to support with the "management" of complex cases from a Human Resource perspective including assisting with the preparation of investigations and supporting managers in hearings (or to hear the case and assist in decision making where appropriate).
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Occupational Health, to ensure that sickness absence is managed appropriately, which includes, advising managers on referrals, use of the appropriate management policies, receiving and acting on information as appropriate and attending case management meetings from a Human Resource perspective to advise on employment law and policy issues in order to establish return to work/management programmes.
• Ensure that sickness/absence levels are monitored and problem areas identified. To ensure that appropriate sickness level targets are developed in conjunction with managers ensuring that information provided is used effectively to assist in the reduction of sickness levels, liaising with the Assistant HR Business Partner.

• Knowledge of specialist HR topics to postgraduate diploma level acquired through degree and professional HR qualification or equivalent level of training
• CIPD registration
• Significant experience of delivering advice, guidance and coaching to operational managers, advising on complex employee relations issues, supporting on change management projects and investigations
• Available to work in Wakefield office

• Immediate start
• Salary up to £40k
• Public sector organisation
• Weekly pay