Location
Norwich, Norfolk | United Kingdom
Job description
Do you wantto work for a Firm that invests in your training and development? Are youlooking for an employer who cares about your wellbeing and the local community?
LovewellBlake is a dynamic, supportive and sociable place to work. We will continuallysupport, invest and encourage your training and development to help you reachyour personal career goals.
With anextensive wellbeing strategy, including a full employee assistance programmeplus trained Mental Health and Wellbeing Champions in each of our offices,support is always available for our employees. Our holiday policy gives you theoption to buy five additional days’ holiday each year and we offer flexi-hourcontracts to allow you to choose the hours that work best for you, alongside anagile working policy, promoting a positive work life balance.
We providestaff with a paid day out of the office each year to support a localcharity/good cause. There are also numerous fundraising activities taking placethroughout the year to raise money for the Lovewell Blake Community Fund. Allthis culminated in 2021 when Lovewell Blake was awarded the Gold Accreditationat The Best Employers Eastern Region Programme and then again in 2023.
An exciting opportunity hasarisen for an experienced HR Adviser to join our growing HR team. Ideally youwill be qualified to level 5 CIPD, or have recent HR generalist experience,including a good practical knowledge and understanding of core HR activitiesand current employment legislation/best practice.
As an HR Adviser at LovewellBlake you will provide support to the HR Manager and have direct contact withpartners and managers across the firm. Whilst the HR team is predominantlybased in Norwich office, travel to other offices within East Anglia will berequired, we also offer agile working practices.
Join us today to realise that we don’t only understand thateach of our clients are different, we understand that each of our employees aredifferent too.
Job Responsibilites
- Deal with employee relation aspects including grievances, disciplinaries, performance management (including probationary reviews) and redundancy aspects as and when required in conjunction with managers, partners and HR Manager. This includes investigations, all administration, attendance at meetings as required by the procedure and undertaking notes of meetings;
- Assist HR Manager with sickness absence management including undertaking meetings in conjunction with managers/partners with employees, dealing with documentation for requesting GP reports and administration with Occupational Health;
- Undertake HR consultancy advice to clients, including all areas of employment law. Therefore required to keep up to date with employment legislation. This includes discipline & grievance, redundancy, TUPE, contracts of employment, managing absence, staff handbook – policies and procedures, family friendly procedures and working time legislation;
- Produce blogs on relevant employment matters to help promote the HR consultancy service;
- Undertake HR projects as and when required in line with the Firm’s strategy;
- Provide advice and guidance to employees and managers in relation to family friendly aspects and flexible working requests as and when required;
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and partners on HR policies and procedures, along with drafting/reviewing these in line with relevant legislation as and when required;
- Provide advice, guidance and support to employees on employment, policies and health/wellbeing, as and when required;
- Actively support and implement the Firm’s wellbeing strategy and initiatives; and
- Support the Firm’s Talent & Employer Brand Co-ordinator with attendance at local careers fairs and assist with interviews, as and when required.
Person Specification
- CIPD Level 5 qualification or demonstrable HR generalist experience.
- A sound understanding of employment law and regulations, and best practice.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage a high volume of work.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Organisational skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Analytical skills, including ability to calculate risk and benefits to make informed decisions.
- Problem-solving.
23 days annual leave (increasing with grade andservice)
Flexi hours and agileworking
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