HR Adviser

Job Title: HR Adviser

Location: Winchester/Hybrid

Contract Type: Fixed-Term 4 Months

Salary: £16.66 per hour

To provide delivery and support of high quality, comprehensive and effective generalist or specialist HR services to customers and HR colleagues within a framework of best practice, HCC policy and employment law.

Strategy and Policy:

• Provide high quality and timely advice on specialist or generalist HR issues enabling managers to make informed decisions, maximise employee performance and/or address recruitment/retention strategies and issues
• Develop thorough understanding of different business areas to effectively deliver practical, timely and high quality solutions
• Contribute to overall policy development, ensuring departmental operational needs are balanced with consistent overall policy and practice
• Provide advice to staff, managers and others on application of policy and practice Relationship Management:
• Working as part of a team or on individual assignments and using generalist or HR specialist knowledge, support and coach managers to ensure a satisfactory, high quality and timely resolution
• Ensure throughout cases/assignments that HCC policies, procedures and legal frameworks are adhered to, taking account of best practice, Equalities, and customer service frameworks

Management:

• Manage a small team, motivating, developing and coaching them to maintain high standards of customer service and overall HR advice

Information Systems:

• Ensure that all HR information, whether on IT systems or paper, is accurately recorded, managed and analysed to provide high quality and timely management information for customers and HR teams in their preparation of service and workforce plans

Information & Communication:

• Ensure customers are advised of relevant developments and changes in HR strategy, policy and practice
• Contribute to the communication, survey and evaluation of HR performance standards and advise on appropriate actions

Essential Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Relevant experience in an generalist HR or similar role with evidence of sufficient knowledge of the specialist area acquired through project or other work
• Certificate in Personnel Practice or relevant experience
• Able to assimilate information quickly
• Self reliant
• Able to make effective business decisions
• Good knowledge and understanding of specialist area
• Supervisory skills
• Able to work to tight deadlines and with conflicting priorities
• Consultancy skills - ability to ask questions and establish facts, culture
• Excellent one to one interpersonal skills to establish facts and information
• Good facilitation skills, experienced in delivering quality presentations, and delivering skills based training
• Good organisational skills
• Understanding of systems and data, able to work with technology and analyse management information
• Understanding of and commitment to equalities and diversity

Desirable Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• CIPD or studying towards

Please apply as appropriate or contact Goodyear on or

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