HR Advisor - Maternity Cover (12 Month FTC)

Location

Altrincham, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Founded in 1992, Informed Solutions is a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

We are looking for an experienced colleague to join our team, who has a passion for supporting our people and continuing to develop the experience we offer them as a Great Place to Work! Working closely with our HR Manager and People Services Coordinator, you will be excited by the chance to:

• Support and advise colleagues across our business on employee relations matters including supporting their well-being, career development, performance and absence management in line with best practice, our policies and UK employment legislation.
• Contribute to our HR policy development, maintenance of our staff handbook, employment contracts and policies to ensure on-going legal compliance, including confidently providing guidance to colleagues on policy interpretation, ethical standards, and best practice in our workplace.
• Drive forward strategic business improvement initiatives within our People Services function, including introducing new systems and process improvements to support our continued growth, including working with senior colleagues in other areas of our business to align our HR function with our wider growth needs. This will include supporting the rollout of our new employee career development and appraisal system.
• Conduct return to work interviews and where necessary facilitate support to staff such as Wellness Action Plans, Occupational Heath referrals and consideration of adjustment requests, liaising with other HR team members and colleagues in our business as required.
• Oversee our team of mental health first aiders, coordinating their event schedules and conducting regular check-ins.
• Collect and analyse HR related employee data, monitoring trends and reporting on them to keep our senior management team aware of employee matters within our business, and advising on any issues we may need to address.
• Conduct staff feedback surveys, analysing the results and proposing improvements we could make in our offer to staff, including keeping staff appraised of progress on improvements from previous surveys.
• Support us in creating an inclusive, supportive work environment that attracts and retains top industry talent and maintains our position as a Great Place to Work!
  

You will be able to evidence a minimum of three years recent HR Generalist experience in a similar role, ideally within a professional services environment. You will also be CIPD Associate Level 5 qualified (as a minimum) and have the relevant experience to hit the ground running in a growing business.

You will also be:

• Comfortable with a hands-on role, able to work under pressure and to short deadlines with a clear sense of priority within a fast-paced and agile environment.
• A team player with the ability to develop strong working relationships and drive collaboration.
• Well organised, with excellent work planning and time management skills.
• A confident and empathetic communicator.
• Able to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities.
• Punctual and reliable, with a meticulous attention to detail.
  

What can we offer you?

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY© – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Weekly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.

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