HR Advisor

Location - East of England, London and South East

The successful person should be within a commutable distance of a Change Grow Live base in Brighton and could occasionally travel within the region/ UK if required.

Overview
Change Grow Live is a health and social care charity, who support more than 200,000 people every year affected by social and economic deprivation, trauma and abuse, homelessness, offending and alcohol and substance misuse. Because they're not a business, they're not looking to make a profit. This allows them to focus on making sure that everything they do is helping the people who use their services, and the wider public too.

We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled, compassionate individual with a strong track record of HR Business Partnering and Regional HR exposure to join us as HR Business Partner for the East of England, London and South East region.

Responsibilities
This role will lead and develop the HR Advisory team which delivers the HR services across the East of England, London and South East region in an open, bold and compassionate way.

You will partner with the Executive Director and team of Directors to identify HR priorities and objectives to meet the operational and strategic needs of the region. You will role model and lead in collaboration with operational and other colleagues ongoing cultural changes and development.

You will proactively develop meaningful working relationships with stakeholders and participate and contribute to stakeholder meetings and will coach and support your team to develop their relationships within the region.

You will provide day to day advice, guidance and coaching to your team and give consistent advice across all aspects of the employee lifecycle including areas such as discipline, grievance, performance management and all areas of Organisational Change including supporting the HR Advisors to lead on TUPE transfers.

Working with the Head of HR and collaboratively with the wider HR and People Team you will lead on the implementation of strategic organisational objectives, projects, and policies.

You will manage and coordinate the activities of the HR Advisors and Assistants to meet the HR priorities across the region. You will ensure the team actively develop their knowledge and practice to ensure HR best practice is embedded within the region.

Essential Criteria
To be successful for this post you will need to have a considerable amount of HR experience and a wide range of complex employee relation issues. You will need to have a good knowledge and understanding of employment law as well as comprehensive knowledge of good HR practice.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, problem solving skills and strong prior experience within the area of management and coaching others.

You will also need good knowledge of HR systems and procedures as well as excellent knowledge of employee relations and significant experience of managing TUPE transfers. Ideally you will be CIPD qualified or have equivalent experience.

Hays Recruitment are coordinating this recruitment for Change Grow Live.

For further information please contact Lauren Whittington on 01293 220402

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we'd love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair, and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.


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