Portfolio HR & Reward are supporting a thriving business in Knutsford, seeking a People & Culture Advisor to join them on a temporary basis until January 2027!
The role is offering a pay of up to £153 per day (PAYE) / £200 per day via umbrella
Reporting in to the Director of People & Culture, the main duties of the role include;
- Provide commercially-focused guidance to managers on employee relations matters, including conduct, capability, grievances, and flexible working arrangements.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships with people managers to ensure compliant HR practices.
- Coach and upskill line managers on conducting investigations, disciplinary hearings, and Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
- Manage the end-to-end process for statutory and company leave entitlements (maternity, paternity, parental, emergency) and flexible working requests, ensuring policy compliance, accurate documentation, and timely payroll notification.
- Manage complex Long-Term Sickness (LTS) and Occupational Health cases, acting as the primary liaison between employees, line managers, Health & Safety, Centres of Excellence (CoEs), and external partners [1].
- Advise and coach line managers on handling persistent short-term and complex long-term absence cases to ensure compliance and support employee return-to-work [2].
- Analyse monthly absence reports to identify trends, communicating insights to leadership and driving action plans to improve team attendance rates
The ideal candidate for this position will be a HR Generalist, with proven experience of providing commercial focused guidance around Employee relations, obtain a CIPD qualification, and evident their ability to deliver advice to first line management.
If this role sounds like it's for you, please apply for a confidential conversation around your experience!
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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.
