Employment Law / HR Advisor - Pertemps Leicester : Job Details

Job Role: HR advisor/ Employment Law Salary: £40,000Location:LeicesterMonday-Friday Our client is looking to recruit an established HR Advisor, specialising in Employment Law for their established advice line service, providing employment law and HR advice to their clients. You will be working as part of the ops team in this varied role as a HR advisor. This is the perfect opportunity for an HR Advisor who has experience advising managers and senior stakeholders on all areas on employment law and HR processes. Ideally, you will have experience working in a HR advisory or multi-site / regional capacity.

• Acting as the first point of contact for clients, providing telephone and email advice on a range of employment matters. Ensuring the advice offers best practice and commercially practical solutions, whilst explaining the risks and liabilities with the associated solutions as a HR advisor.
• You will have a proven track record for advising clients on complex employment law and HR issues, including redundancies, disciplinary, grievance, TUPE, absence management and settlement agreements as a HR advisor.
• Work effectively with the wider consultancy, advice line and business development teams to support consistent delivery to clients, ensuring continuity of advice and practical support for more complex/involved client support issues where required.
• Effectively account manage a small client bank within the agreed service levels.
• Undertake client ad-hoc consultancy projects as directed. Some travel to client sites may be required.
• Draft topical articles for publication on our website and other social media platforms.
• Support the out of hours service providing a 24 hour, 7 days per week telephone cover on a rota.

The successful candidate will be;

• Open and approachable with effective decision making and planning skills. Your technical expertise is crucial; as is the ability to offer customer focused, pragmatic advice to assist our varied client base, maintaining utmost confidentiality.
• Have the ability to disseminate information from the client to form a clear view and exhibit commercial awareness while thinking on your feet is crucial.
• Tact, diplomacy, excellent oral and written skills are essential, as is a positive attitude.
• You must display integrity and professionalism at all times and be self-motivated.
• You must have the ability to take initiative, prioritise and plan effectively as you will often be working to tight deadlines as a HR advisor.

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Qualified or working towards Level 5 (desirable).
• Generalist HR experience dealing with complex ER and HR cases as a HR Advisor.
• Experience of drafting and advising on HR processes, policies and procedures and up to date knowledge of Employment law and case law.
• Experience of working as a Hr advisor and to deadlines in a pressurised environment.
• Experience to organise and prioritise own workload.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team, and on own initiative and autonomously.
• IT skills. A working knowledge of Windows (Word, Outlook and Excel).
• Driving license and use of own vehicle as travel may be required (desirable).