HR Advisor

TN United Kingdom; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

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A fantastic opportunity is now available to join our People Team at Solvd. in the centre of Glasgow. Solvd. provide several services including Customer Experience, Finance and Payroll. Solvd. is a vibrant, friendly office, where our people are committed to delivering the best experience for our customers.

Our People Team support colleagues at all levels throughout their time with Solvd. focussing on Attraction & Retention, Development & Growth, Experience & Engagement and more...

The Role

As an HR Advisor, you will be leading, supporting and coaching our People Managers and colleagues throughout our ‘Colleague Journey’, providing a full end-to-end generalist HR service.

Your support and actions will assist us in delivering the Solvd. Business and People Strategy.

If you are looking for a varied, generalist HR role within a small, busy team where you can enhance engagement and retention then read on!

We offer a competitive salary and great benefits. Our people are our greatest strength and live by our values of Dependable, Proactive, Agile & Inclusive!

Solvd. are proud to be Disability Confident accredited and a committed member of Inclusive Employers. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you need any support or further information before applying for this role, please get in touch with our People Team via [emailprotected]

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of People Projects to improve colleague experience at all levels.
• Attraction & Recruitment
  • Proactively manage recruitment to ensure we attract the best talent and provide an amazing onboarding experience
  • Ensure all administrative new joiner related activities, including contracts of employment and Right to Work verification are completed accurately and in a timely manner
  • Support Managers through Probation and beyond
  • Deliver a warm, welcoming induction and provide a great start for all new colleagues.
• Support the annual performance cycle including mid-year and end of year evaluations
• Book and manage appropriate learning interventions for colleagues
• Support delivery of our annual skills framework
• Experience & Engagement
  • Support coordination of annual colleague survey
  • Drive wellbeing initiatives
  • Ensure EDI is promoted within Solvd.
  • Manage colleague benefit sign up
• Employee Relations
  • Support People Managers on ER activities such as performance and absence management, disciplinary etc., providing advice and guidance, ensuring timely and relevant communication
  • Provide guidance on HR policies and procedures, advising managers on employment law matters in accordance with company policies and other resources
  • Maintaining HR policies and procedures
• Systems & Data
  • Provide an effective HR administration service
  • Manage systems in line with new starts, leavers and changes
  • Production of HR metrics
  • Awareness and adherence to all principles of GDPR
  • Engage in continuous improvement of day-to-day work to enable bottom up improvement.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Experience working in an HR advisory role, including, for example, general HR advice, HR administration, recruitment and selection, HR Information systems
• Proactive and motivated to complete tasks to a high standard
• Strong attendance management and employee relations experience, with clear knowledge of employment law specifically to this.
• Commitment to ongoing personal development
• Ability to deal with difficult situations in a professional manner
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills, including sensitivity and influence.
• Ability to recognise and act upon the implications of actions and decisions.
• Ability to collect, collate and analyse information to enable informed decisions to be made.
• Competent user of Microsoft office software and HR software.

The following are advantageous but not required:

• Business or HR Management degree
• Associate member of CIPD or equivalent
• Strong IT and HR systems experience, beneficial to have worked with iTrent as an HR system previously.

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