HR Advisor
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,000 to £40,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Poole, Dorset |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Resource Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
HR Advisor
Job Location: Poole, Dorset
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Circa £35,000 - £40,000 per annum
Hours: 39 hours per week, Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 5pm & Friday 8.30am – 4pm
Benefits:
• 23 days holiday increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service plus bank holidays + Option to buy up to 4 days additional holiday every year
• Free car parking
• Various discounts available for shopping / cinema / gyms etc.
• Death in service scheme
• Welcoming team environment
• Regular social events
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Advisor for a leading company who design, manufacture and supply products to both the B2C & B2B market.
This well-known company have been established over 35 years and pride themselves on their wide range of high quality and in demand products they have to offer.
The company employ circa 650 staff across their brands; within this role you will be looking after a couple of key brands with circa 400 staff.
You will need to hold a Full Driving licence as you will be required to travel to other sites.
We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor who has employee relations experience, a natural team player, can work from their own initiative and taking accountability for projects to be delivered across the business.
Key responsibilities within this role will include:
• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the HR team, ensuring smooth day to day operations
• Manage a wide range of employee relations cases, including disputes, disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, retirement, and redundancy
• Lead end to end recruitment activities — crafting job descriptions, preparing interview questions, coordinating interviews, conducting assessments, and delivering constructive feedback
• Oversee all employee documentation, including contracts, onboarding packs, and formal letters, ensuring full compliance with employment legislation
• Prepare onboarding materials, organise induction schedules, and deliver engaging new starter introductions
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through to offboarding
• Maintain and update the HRIS with accurate employee data, generating reports when required
• Administer company benefit schemes, ensuring accurate records and effective communication
• Track probation periods, support managers with policy guidance, and issue probation outcome letters
• Advise on sickness and statutory absences, ensuring consistent and fair application of policies
• Monitor holidays and absences, maintaining accurate records
• Support the delivery of HR projects, new procedures, and organisational initiatives aligned with business strategy
• Apply sound HR and commercial judgement to support effective decision making
• Provide accurate payroll related information to ensure timely processing
The successful applicant will possess:
• HR experience including employee relations experience
• Employment law knowledge
• Excellent communication skills, ability to build rapport and working relationships across the business
• The ability to liaise within the business maintaining confidentiality
• High level of organisational skills including the ability to prioritise workloads
• Full driving licence as travel will be required between sites
For more information about this brilliant opportunity please contact our Recruitment Team on 01202 686000 or send your CV to jobs@rm.uk.com
Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.
Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance on the basis of their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender.
By completing our application process, you are authorising us as a Recruitment Agency to contact you in connection with your application by email and / or telephone & SMS under GDPR Article 6(1) (a) and you are also consenting to receiving information via the same means in relation to Resource Recruitment providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website under the Privacy Policy tab on our website. Should you wish, you may opt out at any time.
Keywords: HR; Human resources; employee relations, ER; Bournemouth, Ferndown, Wimborne, Blandford, Dorchester, Wareham, Wallisdown, Upton, Hamworthy, Salisbury, Weymouth, Yeovil, Ringwood, Christchurch, Shaftsbury
Job Location: Poole, Dorset
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Circa £35,000 - £40,000 per annum
Hours: 39 hours per week, Monday – Thursday 8.30am – 5pm & Friday 8.30am – 4pm
Benefits:
• 23 days holiday increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service plus bank holidays + Option to buy up to 4 days additional holiday every year
• Free car parking
• Various discounts available for shopping / cinema / gyms etc.
• Death in service scheme
• Welcoming team environment
• Regular social events
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Advisor for a leading company who design, manufacture and supply products to both the B2C & B2B market.
This well-known company have been established over 35 years and pride themselves on their wide range of high quality and in demand products they have to offer.
The company employ circa 650 staff across their brands; within this role you will be looking after a couple of key brands with circa 400 staff.
You will need to hold a Full Driving licence as you will be required to travel to other sites.
We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor who has employee relations experience, a natural team player, can work from their own initiative and taking accountability for projects to be delivered across the business.
Key responsibilities within this role will include:
• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the HR team, ensuring smooth day to day operations
• Manage a wide range of employee relations cases, including disputes, disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, retirement, and redundancy
• Lead end to end recruitment activities — crafting job descriptions, preparing interview questions, coordinating interviews, conducting assessments, and delivering constructive feedback
• Oversee all employee documentation, including contracts, onboarding packs, and formal letters, ensuring full compliance with employment legislation
• Prepare onboarding materials, organise induction schedules, and deliver engaging new starter introductions
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through to offboarding
• Maintain and update the HRIS with accurate employee data, generating reports when required
• Administer company benefit schemes, ensuring accurate records and effective communication
• Track probation periods, support managers with policy guidance, and issue probation outcome letters
• Advise on sickness and statutory absences, ensuring consistent and fair application of policies
• Monitor holidays and absences, maintaining accurate records
• Support the delivery of HR projects, new procedures, and organisational initiatives aligned with business strategy
• Apply sound HR and commercial judgement to support effective decision making
• Provide accurate payroll related information to ensure timely processing
The successful applicant will possess:
• HR experience including employee relations experience
• Employment law knowledge
• Excellent communication skills, ability to build rapport and working relationships across the business
• The ability to liaise within the business maintaining confidentiality
• High level of organisational skills including the ability to prioritise workloads
• Full driving licence as travel will be required between sites
For more information about this brilliant opportunity please contact our Recruitment Team on 01202 686000 or send your CV to jobs@rm.uk.com
Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.
Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance on the basis of their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender.
By completing our application process, you are authorising us as a Recruitment Agency to contact you in connection with your application by email and / or telephone & SMS under GDPR Article 6(1) (a) and you are also consenting to receiving information via the same means in relation to Resource Recruitment providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website under the Privacy Policy tab on our website. Should you wish, you may opt out at any time.
Keywords: HR; Human resources; employee relations, ER; Bournemouth, Ferndown, Wimborne, Blandford, Dorchester, Wareham, Wallisdown, Upton, Hamworthy, Salisbury, Weymouth, Yeovil, Ringwood, Christchurch, Shaftsbury