HR Advisor - Schools in London SE, EN

Job Title:  HR Advisor – Schools

Hours: 22.5 per week

Contract: Permanent

Applications will be considered for full year working or term time plus 4 weeks (42 weeks), working days can be flexible, to be discussed at interview. 

• We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor (Schools) to provide a comprehensive, professional, high quality advice and support service on the full range of HR disciplines to schools and academies. 
• This includes supporting clients with complex employee relation casework, by email/telephone/teams and onsite, acting as an investigating officer on variety of employment matters, report writing and attending formal meetings.
• You will be involved in the development of school based HR policies and procedures working closely with Trade Union representatives and also design/deliver training sessions to clients on a variety of HR topics
• You will have a proven track record of managing and solving a range of complex HR casework including disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence management, TUPE, redundancy, appraisal and capability. 
• Although experience of working within the schools’ sector and providing advice in line with school specific legislation such as the Burgundy Book, School Teachers’ Pay & Conditions Document and School Staffing Regulations would be beneficial, this is not essential.
• We are looking for an experienced HR professional who is preferably fully CIPD qualified, or able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
•  You should have a strong knowledge of employment law, excellent time management and interpersonal skills, be able to work mainly autonomously under the guidance of your line manager and have the ability to make on the spot professional decisions in challenging environments.
• You will be required to travel throughout Herefordshire to attend on site school meetings on a regular basis and sometimes at short notice.  As travel is essential, you will be required to provide your own transport for business use.

Experience

• Evidenced experience of advising on a range of HR issues including disciplinary, grievance, capability, redundancy and TUPE.
• Evidenced experience of managing complex employee relations cases.
• Experience of providing advice on – Green Book, Burgundy Book, The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document,
• School Staffing Regulations, School Governance
• Experience of working with or evidence of capability to work with Schools in a HR capacity
• Experience of delivering training sessions relevant to employment.
• Experience of working within a Unionised environment
• Experience of project working
• Experience of working with confidential and/or sensitive information.

Skills and Abilities Including personal attributes

• Good interpersonal and customer skills.
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal).
• To create and build effective working relationships with a range of clients, to ensure professional credibility and excellent customer care.
• Experience and/or understanding of delivering and managing customer expectations associated with Service Level Agreements
• Experience of facilitation in a range of settings
• Able to analyse, assess and make decisions often in challenging environments.
• Tactful and diplomatic approach.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• An ability to understand and apply guidance and procedural documents.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of employment law and its applications within a HR environment.
• Good team worker.
• Flexible approach.
• Ability to organise a busy workload effectively, managing and delivering a challenging work agenda.
• Computer literate with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software applications and HR information systems such as Business World / Unit4.
• Excellent time management, able to juggle conflicting priorities

Qualifications and Training

• 2 ‘A’ level passes or equivalent Part/fully CIPD qualified to level  or equivalent experience and evidence of continuous professional development.

Other Factors

• Full UK driving license, Own car with insurance for business use.
• Ability to travel to customer locations both within and outside Herefordshire.
• A commitment to giving high quality advice, information and support service to customers.
• A willingness to work flexibly with other team members to meet work priorities.
• The post holder will be required to undertake some occasional evening work to support customers.

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