HR Advisor
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £32,000 i £35,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Roundabout Ltd |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | HRAD-07.25 |
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About the role
This is an exciting new role at Roundabout, supporting the HR Lead to provide professional, proactive, and confidential support across all areas of Human Resources. Blending advisory, administrative, and developmental responsibilities, you’ll play a key part in delivering a high-quality, responsive HR service. Your contribution will help foster an inclusive, supportive culture where staff feel valued and empowered, enabling them to provide the best possible support to the young people we work with.
Key Accountabilities
The post holder will undertake all tasks required within the remit of this role, including, but not limited to:
HR Advice and Support
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on HR policies, procedures, and employment legislation.
- Support the HR Lead in casework including disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, and performance issues.
- Promote and support best practice in employee relations and people management.
Attend meetings on behalf of the HR Lead when required, ensuring continuity of HR support.
Recruitment and Onboarding
- Work with the HR Coordinator to coordinate recruitment processes including drafting job descriptions, advertising roles, arranging interviews, and communicating with candidates.
- Support inclusive and effective onboarding for new starters, ensuring all checks and paperwork are completed.
- Maintain and improve onboarding materials and processes in line with organisational needs.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive recruitment and onboarding processes for volunteers and bank staff, ensuring a positive, efficient, and consistent experience.
HR Administration
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records and personnel files, both digitally and physically.
- Process documentation relating to new starters, contract changes, leavers, and other employment changes.
- Support audits of personnel files to ensure full compliance with legal and organisational requirements.
- Administer HR systems, including absence tracking, probation reviews, and training logs.
- Develop, update, and maintain an effective HR data management system to ensure accurate and accessible employee records, reporting, and compliance.
Learning and Development
- Support the coordination of learning and development activities, including identifying training needs and sourcing training opportunities.
- Deliver internal training sessions to staff and managers on HR-related topics (e.g., induction, policies, processes).
- Maintain accurate training records and support the promotion of a learning culture across the organisation.
Wellbeing and Engagement
- Assist in delivering initiatives that support employee wellbeing, engagement, and work-life balance.
- Contribute to the implementation of staff survey feedback, particularly around wellbeing and communication.
Policies and Compliance
- Support the development, review, and updating of HR policies and procedures to ensure they are up to date, clear, and legally compliant.
- Help ensure all staff are aware of and have access to relevant policies
Other Duties
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the HR function
- Carry out other duties as reasonably requested by the HR Lead or senior management.
- Build strong working relationships across all teams to promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
Person Specification
Specific Knowledge, Experience & Skills
- Proven experience working in a generalist HR Advisor role, ideally within the Charity sector. CIPD Level 5 would be an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Experience supporting employee relations casework, including investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes.
- Experience of updating and implementing HR policies and procedures.
- Experience maintaining HR systems and handling confidential employee data.
- Understanding of safeguarding principles and safer recruitment practices.
- Experience of creating, updating, and maintaining HR data management systems to ensure accurate record-keeping, data protection compliance, and effective reporting.
- Experience delivering or supporting training sessions for staff and managers.
- Knowledge of health and wellbeing initiatives in the workplace.
- Confident using HR software, databases, and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy in all areas of work.
- Able to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Friendly, approachable and ability to listen to understand.
- A proactive and solution-focused approach to work.
- Flexible, adaptable and resilient when working in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Supportive team player who is willing to get involved in a range of tasks.
This is an exciting new role at Roundabout, supporting the HR Lead to provide professional, proactive, and confidential support across all areas of Human Resources. Blending advisory, administrative, and developmental responsibilities, you’ll play a key part in delivering a high-quality, responsive HR service. Your contribution will help foster an inclusive, supportive culture where staff feel valued and empowered, enabling them to provide the best possible support to the young people we work with.
Key Accountabilities
The post holder will undertake all tasks required within the remit of this role, including, but not limited to:
HR Advice and Support
- Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on HR policies, procedures, and employment legislation.
- Support the HR Lead in casework including disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, and performance issues.
- Promote and support best practice in employee relations and people management.
Attend meetings on behalf of the HR Lead when required, ensuring continuity of HR support.
Recruitment and Onboarding
- Work with the HR Coordinator to coordinate recruitment processes including drafting job descriptions, advertising roles, arranging interviews, and communicating with candidates.
- Support inclusive and effective onboarding for new starters, ensuring all checks and paperwork are completed.
- Maintain and improve onboarding materials and processes in line with organisational needs.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive recruitment and onboarding processes for volunteers and bank staff, ensuring a positive, efficient, and consistent experience.
HR Administration
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records and personnel files, both digitally and physically.
- Process documentation relating to new starters, contract changes, leavers, and other employment changes.
- Support audits of personnel files to ensure full compliance with legal and organisational requirements.
- Administer HR systems, including absence tracking, probation reviews, and training logs.
- Develop, update, and maintain an effective HR data management system to ensure accurate and accessible employee records, reporting, and compliance.
Learning and Development
- Support the coordination of learning and development activities, including identifying training needs and sourcing training opportunities.
- Deliver internal training sessions to staff and managers on HR-related topics (e.g., induction, policies, processes).
- Maintain accurate training records and support the promotion of a learning culture across the organisation.
Wellbeing and Engagement
- Assist in delivering initiatives that support employee wellbeing, engagement, and work-life balance.
- Contribute to the implementation of staff survey feedback, particularly around wellbeing and communication.
Policies and Compliance
- Support the development, review, and updating of HR policies and procedures to ensure they are up to date, clear, and legally compliant.
- Help ensure all staff are aware of and have access to relevant policies
Other Duties
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the HR function
- Carry out other duties as reasonably requested by the HR Lead or senior management.
- Build strong working relationships across all teams to promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
Person Specification
Specific Knowledge, Experience & Skills
- Proven experience working in a generalist HR Advisor role, ideally within the Charity sector. CIPD Level 5 would be an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Experience supporting employee relations casework, including investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes.
- Experience of updating and implementing HR policies and procedures.
- Experience maintaining HR systems and handling confidential employee data.
- Understanding of safeguarding principles and safer recruitment practices.
- Experience of creating, updating, and maintaining HR data management systems to ensure accurate record-keeping, data protection compliance, and effective reporting.
- Experience delivering or supporting training sessions for staff and managers.
- Knowledge of health and wellbeing initiatives in the workplace.
- Confident using HR software, databases, and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy in all areas of work.
- Able to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Friendly, approachable and ability to listen to understand.
- A proactive and solution-focused approach to work.
- Flexible, adaptable and resilient when working in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Supportive team player who is willing to get involved in a range of tasks.