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Our local authority client based in South London are urgently seeking an experienced HR Advisor.
Main Purpose of the job:
- To provide specialist, professional HR advice across all Council directorates. The role will provide expert advice on employment legislation and on Council policies and procedures. As part of the HR Team, it provides a comprehensive value added, high quality Human Resource Management Service in partnership with directorate services, ensuring the delivery of a customer focused professional service.
- To lead on specific service plan and work programmed areas and projects as allocated. Working collaboratively across the HR Community to deliver common service plan objectives, including the provision of advice and support across directorates as required.
- To support and maintain the improvement of the quality of people management across the Directorates, by ensuring that managers know how to access HR services and support in a timely way and that they are well informed and equipped to fulfil the expectations of them in relation to people management practice and policies.
Summary of Accountabilities and Personal Duties:
- Support the delivery of services’ priorities in all aspects of people management, by delivering a first class HR service and providing expert HR advice, guidance and support to all managers across the Directorates on complex issues and cases, including organisational change, and employee relations case work, ensuring the delivery of a customer focused and professional service that improves people management practice across the organisation.
- Act as the Council’s human resource advisory expert on employment legislation; policies and procedures; conditions of service and best practice. This will include, advising and coaching managers at all levels to improve people management practice and performance across the Directorate; undertake mediation/negotiation to resolve employee relations matters; and represent HR as required at cross directorate and corporate meetings and working groups.
- Maintain constructive working relationships with trade union representatives and other staff representatives. Undertake consultation and negotiation participating as necessary in Directorate consultative forums.
- Lead and manage a diverse and complex caseload advising managers at all levels, ensuring cases are managed and progressed in a timely manner. To maintain accurate case management records to provide qualitative and quantitative feedback to identify people management trends across the Council.
- Provide advice and support to managers on complex management of change issues including reorganisation/restructuring, redundancy/redeployment, outsourcing/TUPE, job evaluation and consultation processes. This will include providing advice on financial and equality implications; and establishment control and reconciliation.
Knowledge & Experience
- Successful track record as an HR practitioner in a complex environment/organisation.
- Up to date knowledge of corporate and business challenges facing local authorities and public bodies and how to deliver people management solutions that address those
- Sound knowledge of employee engagement, employment law, best practice and employee relations to deliver key outcomes that support the organisation’s priorities and objectives.
- Experience of successfully developing and implementing people management solutions to deliver agreed organisational outcomes
- Good track record in leading and delivering people management initiatives and interventions to improve talent management, resourcing, performance management and the employee experience.
- Good understanding and experience of the political interface in a local authority and the role and needs of elected members.
- Experience of successfully managing relationships and stakeholders within a complex organisation.
Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.
At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful.
