Schools HR Advisor

Our local authority client based in North West London are urgently seeking an experienced Schools HR Advisor.

£24.81 an hour PAYE

Hybrid working

Role Purpose The Senior HR Advisor (Schools) is responsible for providing an effective, quality, consistent and responsive HR service in order to meet customer needs and deliver the overall objectives of the Council, covering all areas of HR remit, including high-risk and complex HR issues.

Main Duties / Accountabilities

• Actively engage with stakeholders ensuring organisational commitment to the delivery of HR service through the use of effective influencing skills.

• Excellent working relationships with managers, stakeholders including Trade Union officials are established, fostered and maintained.

• Specialist advice and guidance is provided to managers who are leading the resolution of employee relations issues including innovative solutions in advising managers in handling employee non-compliance and in consultation exercises.

• Complex, high profile people-related matters are managed to a satisfactory conclusion.

• Support Management Teams and managers in accordance with the Directorates strategic and operational requirements, and in line with the agreed protocol for service delivery. These will include: Attending Directorate Management Team meetings, attend and facilitate Departmental Joint Committee (DJC) meetings, comprehensive support on people management case from investigations, hearings, appeals to the drafting of notes and letters. Attending hearings and appeals.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Role requirements

• Demonstrable record of achievement in employee relations, specifically complex casework, TUPE, and strategic and operational human resources projects

• Experience of successfully managing employee relations issues in a timely and consistent way in a large organisation.

• Experience of report writing and communicating complex issues to a broad range of audiences.

• Experience in dealing with a range of complex and contentious matters requiring a consistently high degree of support, persuasion and advocacy and an awareness of major policy objectives, employment legislation and regulations.

• Knowledge, awareness and understanding of the public sector, including understanding the key drivers for change

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful.