Job Details:
HR Advisor

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a skilled HR Advisor to support and guide our People Managers on a range of employee relations at The Growth Company (GC).

We are an accredited social enterprise, a commercially driven organisation who offer exciting and rewarding careers to our employees. By joining us you can make a real difference to people’s lives and the success of our business.

As a HR Advisor - with the support of the HR Business Partner team, you will provide advice to Managers on employment law, company policies and procedures, and HR ‘best practices’ to enable Managers to effectively deal with their issues such as performance management, absence management, disciplinary, grievance and consultation.

 Key Responsibilities:

• The first point of contact for Managers, who can provide solutions-focused advice on a wide range of HR matters.
• Building an effective working relationship with our Managers at all levels.
• At GC we pride ourselves in empowering others, therefore it is important that you can continually coach and develop our line managers on key management practices including performance and capability issues, conflict and dispute situations, and absence management.
• You will work closely with our team of Business Partners and assist with embedding the HR and OD Strategy across GC.
• Committed to continuously improving the HR Service delivery.

About you:

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• An organiser with efficient administrative skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Professional and confident manner always showing tact and diplomacy.
• High degree of accuracy.
• Ability to deal with difficult and multiple tasks at any one time.
• Resourceful and strong ability to solve problems independently.
• Team orientated yet also able to work autonomously.
• Have a proactive approach.

Essential Skills:

• CIPD Qualified (Chartered/Graduate membership) or working towards.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent relevant professional experience).
• Up-to-date knowledge of current employment legislation and its application and HR ‘best practice’.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at [email protected] or call us on 0161 237 4447.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

• Our annual leave entitlement starts at 25 days, plus bank holidays which increases with length of service with the opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional days leave each year.
• Access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We have 8 EDI steering group to make sure we value our differences and enable an environment of fairness, dignity and respect.
• We offer up to two days’ paid leave to volunteer at a charity of choice through our Volunteer2Day scheme. 
• We offer travel loans, discounted seasonal travel tickets for public transport and a great cycle to work scheme promoting opportunities to reduce environmental pollution and a healthier lifestyle. 
• We have an enhanced learning and development offer for all staff and managers with opportunities for mentoring, undertaking apprenticeships and continuous professional development. 
• Paid for eye test and contributions towards glasses for VDU users, helping improve overall health and wellbeing in the workplace.