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SalaryWe are seeking aHR Advisor to join our HR Outsourcing team providing HR support to our clients. If you would like to work for a thriving company where you can really make a difference, we would love to hear from you.
Why your role matters
Your role will be crucial in assisting our HR Consultancy team in delivering services to our HR Retained Clients and ad hoc HR Project Clients. It involves collaborating with our HR & Recruitment Coordinators to execute client transactional HR administration throughout the employment lifecycle and recruitment processes.
What you’ll be doing
In the role of HR Advisor, you will provide support to WorkNest clients and HR Consultants on employee relations issues such as disciplinary actions, capability assessments, absence management, and grievances.
You will have the opportunity to provide hands-on support to the HR Consultants in implementing small-scale redundancy, organisational restructuring plans, or client projects (e.g., redundancy consultations). This may involve attending meetings, recording notes, and generating all necessary documentation to ensure legal compliance for the client.
You will monitor and respond to client emails and telephone calls and promptly address queries on various employment law and HR lifecycle matters as part of your role, whilst managing client expectations to ensure service excellence.
Furthermore, you will play a key role in developing and reviewing client processes, contracts of employment, policies, and procedures. This includes crafting staff handbooks, reviewing client contracts and documentation and carrying out documentation audits. You will be responsible for calculating client employee holiday entitlements, considering various work patterns in both days and hours, handling the calculation of redundancy and notice entitlements for redundancy projections and demonstrating the ability to confidently explain these calculations to clients as needed.
About You
You will have experience of working in a HR function, at administrator or coordinator level. You will have ability to provide competent, high quality and reliable advice and guidance around HR issues and queries.
You will have excellent relationship building skills, attention to detail and willingness to learn and grow your HR expertise and knowledge.
Where you’ll be working
This is a hybrid role with an office base in Horsham (a minimum of one day per week in the office, with the rest of the week remote). You will also have the opportunity to visit client premises when required. That way, you’ll be able to work collaboratively with colleagues to effectively deliver our services, meet our clients face-to-face and have dedicated time to work at home.
What’s in it for you
£28,000 - £32,000 per annum (depending on experience) and an attractive company benefits package, including:
- A Health Cash Plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company Share Scheme
- 25 days holiday per year + Bank Holidays
- Your birthday off
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Subsidised gym membership
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
- Free virtual well-being sessions
- Referral schemes
Who we are
WorkNest is a fast-growing professional support company specialising in delivering high-quality Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety advice supported by technology. Our 450 colleagues (split over 11 locations) support over 40,000 clients and their 600,000 employees across UK and Ireland. Our clients range from small, 10-employee businesses to large organisations employing thousands of people. Some of our more well-known clients include the Peter Jones' group of companies, Pure Gym, Holland and Barratt and Oxford University. We’re known for our personalised, high-quality support and pragmatic, commercially-minded approach - as well as being a great place to work.
Up for the challenge?
If you are interested in the role and share our values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion, please use the 'apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.
