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One of my local government clients are currently recruiting an experienced HR Adviser on a temporary basis. This is a 3-month minimum contract with the possibility of the role being extended further to work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Hybrid working role were, however, you will be required to attend the office 2/3 times a week.

Overview:

  • 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.

    Main Responsibilties:

  • 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.

    If you are interested in this vacancy, please send your CV to Jahker Miah from Coyle Personnel Ltd

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