HR Advisor
Department: Human Resources
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Middleton Stoney, United Kingdom
Reporting To: Lisa Genovese, Director of HR
Description
We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our team and play a key role in supporting managers and employees across the full employee lifecycle. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will provide high-quality, pragmatic HR guidance and administrative support, helping to build a positive, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture. This is a hands-on role, suited to someone who enjoys balancing employee relations, recruitment and generalist HR tasks within a supportive team.
This role role requires onsite presence 3 days per week.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a first point of contact for managers and employees, providing timely, legally compliant HR advice.
- Support and guide managers through employee relations matters including absence, performance, disciplinary and grievance cases.
- Conduct or support HR investigations, ensuring fairness, consistency and accurate documentation.
- Manage family-friendly and statutory leave requests, including flexible working.
- Liaise with occupational health and support effective return-to-work processes.
- Support and play an active role in recruitment activity, advising hiring managers on best practice.
- Work with the HR & Recruitment Coordinator on recruitment activity including job descriptions, shortlisting and interviews where required.
- Support with onboarding, offboarding and contractual changes to ensure a positive employee experience.
- Coordinate internships, graduate schemes and work experience placements.
- Conduct exit interviews and identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Maintain accurate HR and recruitment data and systems.
- Support managers with probation reviews, performance management, PDPs and career development.
- Deliver and continuously improve the induction experience, including completing the HR induction for new starters.
- Support and facilitate management and employee training sessions.
- Source and organise cost-effective training aligned to business needs.
- Support the annual employee engagement survey and related action planning.
- Champion company values, wellbeing, inclusion and employee engagement initiatives.
- Support with the global payrolls, and benefit administration as required.
- Support with the coordination of the annual salary review, and quarterly reward schemes.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- CIPD Level 5 qualified (or working towards).
- Proven experience of working in an HR Advisor or HR Generalist role, with strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
- Proven experience managing employee relations cases.
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive and able to work effectively, independently and as part of a team.
- Organised with a high level of attention to detail, able to effectively prioritise work.
- High level of professionalism and confidentiality.
- Experience using HR systems and ATS platforms.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary profit share bonus
- Holiday entitlement is 27 days plus 8 bank holidays
- 5% employee and 5% employer contributions through our salary sacrifice workplace pension scheme with Scottish Widows
- Private Medical Insurance
- Group Income Protection Insurance Scheme
- Death In Service Scheme
- Electric Vehicle Scheme (after 12 months service)
