Hr Specialist

To succeed as the HR Manager, you will need to draw on a range of skills and knowledge, while showing your personable nature, positive attitude and proactive leadership techniques.

Main duties:

• Manage all core HR departmental areas, including employee relations, HR admin, learning and development, internal recruitment, employee engagement, and maintaining and improving HR systems. 
• Ensure a seamless and close working relationship with the payroll department to manage employee pay related disputes, grievances and legal processes  that require   employment law compliance.
• Current regulation compliance, including accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation (including legislation on data protection, the Equality Act and health and safety).  
• Manage the implementation of employment policies. 
• Ensure employment law, HR policy, best practice and workforce development are applied.
• Ensure the onboarding process is handled in a professional manner to expedite the settling in period.
• Manage the execution of the HR Strategy to ensure achievement of the objectives.
• Continuously improve engagement and welfare activities, maximising productivity, devolving HR responsibilities to line managers and building leadership capability.  Identify HR trends so that attention can be directed to key issues and resources.
• Identify staffing needs and manage the creation of job descriptions and handbooks.
• Develop and implement management talent planning.
• Develop the organisational structure to support future growth, using best practice principles. 
• Manage the company’s employee programmes, staff benefits and packages. 
• Control the performance review programme to deliver continuous employee development. 
• Regularly coach, mentor, and support colleagues to identify individual strengths and development needs
• Ensure employee training requirements are well managed and monitored. 
• Manage the training and development plans and ensure they are of a high standard. 
• Conduct annual remuneration and benefit surveys and reviews. 
• Regulate any relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for incentive schemes.
• Manage the diversity, equality, and inclusion values and practices within the company.
• Enable all team members to access appropriate guidance and information to manage their workload.
• Ensure the offboarding process is handled in a professional manner to ensure everyone is consistently treated fairly.
• Manage the allocation of HR budgets.
• Ensure internal HR communications, including any issues, initiatives and programmes are well planned, coordinated, relevant, timely and adhere to the company’s values. 
• Make sure that company values and approach are utilised to strengthen the organisational culture.
• Demonstrate the company values, championing the leadership behaviour framework. 
• Demonstrate a high-performance ethic with a focus on successful outcomes. 
• Develop and maintain effective relationships to encourage retention and ensure the team perspective is fully represented in decision making. 
• To assist in the complaints procedure within the wider Union as well as the Arthur Findlay college and Barbanell centre