HR Advisor

Location

West Sussex | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Category : Human Resources
Location : County Hall, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary:£15.33

HR Advisor
Join us – make a difference in our communities
West Sussex County Council is a diverse organisation that provides services to
more than 850,000 residents every day. The Human Resources and
Organisational Change Directorate provides critical support functions to our
services, relentlessly focusing on delivering better and cost-effective outcomes.
Our teams use their experience to enable and challenge the Council to deliver
improved efficiency and effectiveness.
About the job
You will work with HR Senior Business Partners and HR Business Partners to
support the delivery of Directorate/Service People Plans, ensuring that accurate
and proactive HR advice is delivered to managers and employees.
You will focus on the provision of comprehensive and proactive HR generalist
advice and guidance to managers to deliver HR policies and procedures across
all aspects of Employee Relations including bullying and harassment, conduct,
performance management, recruitment, grievance, disciplinary and sickness
absence in line with our policies, Employment Law and best practice. You will
provide a contact point for managers and employees to ask for general advice
and support referring more complex issues to the HR Senior Business Partners
and HR Business Partners as necessary.
What you’ll need to succeed
You will have good interpersonal skills to be able respond to manager and
employee enquiries whilst being challenging and remaining professional and
commercially focused.
Job details
Grade: 9
Directorate Group: Human Resources & Organisational Change
Location: Chichester County Hall (including travel)
Required experience and skills
(These will be used as the shortlisting criteria)
Key Skills:

1. Ability to quickly establish credible working relationships with clients, in order
   to deliver a professional, accurate and customer focused service.
2. Ability to analyse and interpret information, carry out research and produce a
   written business report.
   Job Description & Person Specification
3. Demonstrable evidence of having researched and resolved issues and
   contributed to HR policies and/or procedures reviews.
   Qualifications and/or experience:
   • Working towards Level 5 in CIPD or equivalent qualification or experience.
   • Experience of providing comprehensive HR generalist advice and support to
   managers on HR policies, practices and processes to managers and
   responding to employee enquiries.
   Key responsibilities
   Delivery of comprehensive HR generalist advice and support to managers and
   employees, and timely and proactive management of employee relations
   casework, escalating more complex issues to senior colleagues or specialist
   teams as appropriate.
   Supports HR Senior Business Partners and HR Business Partners with the day-today operational delivery of People Plans and activities, as defined and led by
   specialist HR teams and senior colleagues.
   Promote awareness and application of HR policies and procedures within the
   supported service area.
   Supports directorates with resourcing requirements/interviews etc.
   Our Values
   You will lead, promote and demonstrate the values of our organisation.
   • Trust and Support
   • Listen and Act Upon
   • Customer Centred
   • Honest and Realistic
   • Genuinely Valued
   You will lead, promote and demonstrate the cultural ambition of our
   organisation:
   “We have an inclusive and supportive culture, work in partnership and reward
   individual and team contribution”

Please note that this post will be mainly working from home, but the postholder must be prepared to travel to Chichester to attend meetings when required

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