HR Advisor

HR Advisor

📍 Redditch | 🏢 WPS | ⏳ 6-Month Fixed Term Contract

Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for employee relations and providing expert people advice? We're looking for an HR Advisor to join our WPS team on a 6 month fixed-term contract, supporting managers and employees across the business with a wide range of HR and employee relations matters.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and knowledgeable HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys building strong relationships, coaching managers and driving best practice.

🚀 What You'll Be Doing

As HR Advisor, you'll provide comprehensive HR advisory support across the full employee lifecycle, including:

✅ Advising managers on employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management, redundancy and redeployment cases

✅ Supporting and coaching managers, HR teams and senior stakeholders in the application of HR policies, procedures and best practice

✅ Leading and supporting HR projects such as TUPE transfers, organisational change and business improvement initiatives

✅ Assisting with the development, implementation and communication of new and updated HR policies and procedures

✅ Supporting managers through complex employee relations cases, including attending formal hearings and appeals

✅ Managing and processing senior hire offer contracts

✅ Producing HR data, reports and dashboards, maintaining accurate employee records and updating ER case trackers

✅ Building strong relationships across the business to embed HR best practice and support positive employee experiences

✅ Working closely with external providers including Occupational Health and legal advisers

✅ Ensuring compliance with employment legislation, data protection requirements and company policies

🎯 What We're Looking For

We're keen to hear from candidates who have:

✔ CIPD qualification (or equivalent)

✔ Up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice

✔ Previous experience within an HR Advisor, HR Administrator or wider HR team role

✔ Experience supporting disciplinary, grievance, absence and performance management processes

✔ Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and build credibility at all levels

✔ Experience of drafting outcome letters and supporting formal HR processes

✔ A proactive approach to driving improvements and supporting change

✔ Excellent attention to detail and the ability to handle confidential information with integrity

✔ Experience using HR systems, producing reports and working with HR metrics

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. 

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting 

If you're an experienced HR professional looking for your next challenge and want to make an immediate impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now! ✨

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WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk