Position Permanent

Location Goring on Thames

Salary £35000 to £55000

Contact Catherine Kirby

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Senior HR Advisor (Employment Law)

Goring on Thames (near Reading)

Permanent contract
Full time, minimum 3 days in the office.

Senior HR Advisor - About the Role

We solve employment law problems. About 70% of our time is spent dealing with grievances and disciplinaries, and trying to find out all the details of what has happened from our clients. A bit like an employment law CSI team! We are the HR advisors our clients ring when they have given staff a second, third, tenth chance to improve, and it is still not working.

The rest of our time is spent on contract and handbook creation for clients, as well as dealing with the usual employee relations topics (termination, settlement agreements, long-term sickness absence, maternity, etc). However, we also advise on golf club member disciplinary issues.

Were recruiting for a Senior HR Advisor with expertise in Employment Law / Employee Relations. This role doesnt include any recruitment services for our clients.

Were looking for someone who loves solving problems. If you are happy to pick up the phone to a client and deal with whatever staff issue they bring up, with no previous briefing, then this is the role for you.

No need for expertise in all areas of employment law - training will be given - and Continuous Professional Development is strongly supported (financially and during working hours).

Senior HR Advisor - Our Offer:

£35,000 - £55,000 annual salary, pro rata, depending on experience and knowledge
Enhanced sick pay
Salary sacrifice pension
Employee Assistance Program
Enhanced family friendly leave
Free flu jabs and paid blood donation time off.
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Work-life balance - no evening or weekend work required
Direct client contact at a business owner and senior manager level from day one
Training and ongoing development encouraged in areas where you have less experience - please still apply even if you dont feel you are an employment law expert yet!
Role is an excellent chance to hone your employment law skills, a good stepping stone on the way to a team management role in a couple of years.
Occasional travel to clients, but 99% of our advice is done remotely by email, phone and Zoom

Senior HR Advisor - About You:

Good knowledge of employment law (particularly statutory entitlements)
Extensive experience of managing disciplinary and grievance cases
Comfortable on the phone, in virtual meetings, and competent in MS Office (especially Word and Outlook), as well as using the internet
Curious, direct, outgoing nature, with a pragmatic approach to solving problems
Good customer facing skills
No CIPD qualification necessary.

Who we are

A highly successful, financially secure, niche consultancy that has grown consistently and successfully over the past 21 years. Turnover of over £700,000 with a healthy six figure profit year on year. Due to our continued growth, we need another senior HR advisor to meet the needs of our clients.

Our clients are mainly small organisations with fewer than 50 employees. We work with over 280 of them on retained contracts as their outsourced HR department, advising at managing director level, and giving them practical employment law advice to solve their staff issues.

We are based in Goring on Thames with a small friendly team. Our modern office is in the middle of the village, close to cafes, food delis and shops. Weve got free parking, but were also only a five-minute wander from the train station.

We all work well together and enjoy sharing the highs, and lows, of advising our clients on how to deal with their staff issues. We support each other and no one is left alone to decide the best course of action. We are a team and would love to welcome you as our new teammate!