HR Advisor- Permanent

Employee Relations

• Provide clear, professional advice to managers on a wide range of ER issues, ensuring fairness and legal compliance.
• Manage complex ER cases and escalate to the HR Business Partner when needed.
• Respond promptly to employee and manager queries.
• Support the review and update of HR policies.
• Maintain effective relationships with Trade Union representatives.

Occupational Health & Wellbeing

• Proactively manage absence cases, ensuring welfare meetings and trend analysis.
• Promote health and wellbeing initiatives.
• Prepare occupational health referrals.
• Carry out Drugs & Alcohol testing after training, including out‑of‑hours on‑call duties.

Employee Engagement & Development

• Support performance reviews, learning initiatives and employee engagement activity.
• Work cross‑functionally to strengthen communication and engagement.

Compensation & Benefits

• Partner with Finance and Payroll on pay matters (e.g., sick pay, family leave).
• Support the annual pay review.
• Promote and help improve employee benefits.

Policy & Procedure

• Draft, update and implement HR policies to ensure legal compliance.
• Support policy rollouts and provide guidance on interpretation.

Management Information & Reporting

• Assist with HR data, reporting, and analysis.
• Support statutory reporting, including gender pay gap and ONS submissions.
• Maintain accurate HR system data.