Principal HR Advisor – Human Resources
| Posting date: | 03 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £22.25 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Woolwich, Greenwich, SE186HQ |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Greenwich RQ1306025 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Principal HR Advisor – Human Resources
Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1306025
Pay Rate: £22.25 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months
City: Woolwich, Greenwich
Hybrid working
The Principal HR Advisor will work as part of the Schools’ HR traded service to deliver robust and professional HR support to school leaders across the Royal Borough of Greenwich they may also support RBG’s Corporate HR Services.
They will be advising Governing Bodies, Headteachers, Directors and senior managers across a varied workload and will need to quickly build positive and effective relationships to deliver the best outcomes across the employee life-cycle including resourcing, performance management, dismissal appeals and complex employee relations cases. Strong change management experience supporting organisational restructures and TUPE transfers is essential.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide high quality, focussed advice and guidance to managers in relation to organisational change and the application of the council’s formal employment procedures.
Lead a team of HR officers providing HR advisory services and embed agile working across the HR Professional Services Team by responding to the needs of Directorates as required, acting as an expert point of reference for the team.
Develop excellent communication channels to work in partnership with all partners and senior stakeholders. Identify the need for and design bespoke interventions to build capacity and capability of services and the organisation, evaluating interventions to ensure they meet agreed targets.
Build knowledge and capacity across the HRPS, H&S and WFD service and with customers. Adopt best practice approaches to project management and use management information and data effectively to ensure added value is identified and delivered.
Supervise, mentor and coach junior members of the HRPS Team to build knowledge and capacity, ensuring a consistent standard of service delivery and strengthen talent management and succession planning within HR.
Manage a range of processes and performance indicators to ensure that all HR casework is managed in a timely manner and takes full account of relevant employment legislation and organisational precedent.
Undertake pre-employment checks in a timely manner.
Act as point of reference for organisational change management, working with the Deputy HR Managers / Strategic HR Manager to develop and implement appropriate HR solutions in the management of organisational change in order to meet organisational requirements
Working with the managers on organisational change e.g. organisation design, job design, structural and cultural aspects of change, recruitment implications, learning & development implications and ER aspects of change.
Align HR professional practice to the council’s workforce plan.
Lead and provide final advice and support on complex casework in order to support service managers in resolving issues within reasonable timescales e.g. investigations, disciplinary, performance and absence cases taking account of employment legislation and organisational precedent.
Advising managers at all levels in respect of appeals in respect of the full range of employment policies and procedures.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Fully CIPD qualified.
Experience of the management of complex casework including re-organisations and TUPE.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of working with management, employees and trades unions to achieve staffing related service delivery improvements and evidence of successful management of professional teams bringing about improvements in services through change management and influencing the behaviours and actions of others.
Up to date knowledge of employment legislation, its legal implications and HR best practice.
HR experience in an education setting is desirable.
Strong change management experience supporting organisational restructures is essential and TUPE transfers.
In depth knowledge and understanding of the Employment Tribunal Service and associated services (ACAS).
Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills, effective management of staff and resources.
Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and delegate with experience of designing & delivering workshops and briefing sessions and experience of working with computerised information systems.
Strong interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills, resilience and the ability to work effectively with people at all levels within an organisation with the ability to engage and motivate individuals and teams in meeting performance objectives.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1306025
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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