Principal HR Advisor - South London, United Kingdom - Sovereign & Bale

Sovereign & Bale

Verified Company

South London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Principal HR Advisor

Location:
Hybrid, South London

Salary:
£40,000

Contract:
Full time, permanent

_A minimum of 2 days attendance in the office is required and staff are expected to attend the office and in-person school-based meetings as required in addition to this. _

Role

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 Local Authority and support the 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.

HR experience in an education setting is desirable but not essential for the Schools' HR role.

Key Accountabilities

To 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
To 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
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
To undertake preemployment checks in a timely manner
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

Qualification and Skills

Fully CIPD qualified
Experience of the management of complex casework including reorganisations and TUPE.
Experience of management all aspects of Human Resources within Local Government
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
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