HR Advisor
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Position Overview & Specifications
HR Advisor
To provide professional and effective HR support to the business, maintaining efficient HR systems and processes, and contributing to the HR function achieving HR strategy targets and goals. To ensure all HR policies, procedures and practices comply with current legislation and best practice guidelines.
- Providing daily support to the ERBP and Senior HRBP.
- Management of the HR Advisor inbox, providing responses to HR queries and advising on informal issues outside the remit of the HR Coordinator role.
- Managing cases in all areas of employee relations in line with Company policies, employment law and best practice, and within appropriate time frame. To include absence management, flexible working, performance management, disciplinaries, capability hearings, grievances, dismissals and appeals.
- Advising and coaching leaders on employee relations issues to develop their people management and leadership skills and constructively challenging inappropriate behaviours or actions.
- Supporting leaders and employees with health-related queries including occupational health referrals, medical reports and providing advice and guidance on managing employees with infectious illness, implementing reasonable adjustments and wellbeing support.
- Supporting the ERBP / HRBPs with change projects such as TUPE transfers, and complex variations to terms and conditions and redundancy consultations.
- Managing less complex variations to terms and conditions and redundancy consultations.
- Researching and interpreting employment law and HR best practice to ensure advice and guidance is accurate and up to date. Informing team members of employment law changes and outlining the impact this may have on the business.
- Reviewing and developing HR policies and procedures, contracts of employment and conditions of engagement (for workers), to ensure they are robust, effective and compliant with current employment legislation.
- Supporting the provision of training and appropriate resources to leaders to support them in appropriately managing employee relations issues and to ensure knowledge of and adherence to employment legislation.
- Contributing to the sharing of knowledge/learning with colleagues in the wider team and across the business.
- Undertaking project work to develop and implement new initiatives/processes or to continuously improve those that already exist, in response to internal and external changes and/or requirements i.e. employee exit process, EU transition preparation, agile working, investigation process, absence management process.
- Support the ERBP / Senior HRBP with analysis of HR data to identify trends/patterns and support functional action planning.,
- Reporting on and chasing outstanding sickness meetings (short term and long term sick).
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Human resources: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- CIPD (preferred)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Commission pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Human resources: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- CIPD (preferred)
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: General
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for HR Advisor roles across Uniting People's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to General.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £32,000 - £35,000 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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