People Adviser

This post is full time, 35 hours per week and is a fixed term maternity leave cover for 12 months from mid-April 2024. We are seeking to appoint an experienced People Adviser to join our Advisory Support Team within the People, Culture and Wellbeing department. This is a great opportunity to join a highly motivated team of People Business Partners and Advisors committed to providing professional advice and support to colleagues and senior managers on the interpretation and application of policy, legislation and best practice. You will manage a wide-ranging portfolio of casework including grievance and disciplinary issues, wellbeing support, ill health and capability. You will have a strong commitment to embracing diversity and promoting equality. To be successful in this role, you will have demonstratable HR generalist experience in a highly customer-focused organisation and have a sound understanding of current employment legislation together with extensive employee relations experience. The ideal candidate will be a skilled part qualified CIPD HR practitioner who is self-motivated, with strong people skills and the ability to communicate and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, working comfortably in a busy environment with ambiguity and rapidly changing agendas. This is an exciting time for the University as we work on delivering our 2022-2029 strategic plan, which is itself heavily focused on people matters and priorities. We employ circa 2800 staff, in a unionised environment, located on four main sites within Central London and Harrow. This a hybrid working role, based in our Wells Street office. To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply' above. Further information can be found in the job description and person specification, which can be accessed through this link too. At the University of Westminster, diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity are at the core of how we engage with students, colleagues, applicants, visitors and all our stakeholders. We are fully committed to enabling a supportive and safe learning and working environment which is equitable, diverse and inclusive, is based on mutual respect and trust, and in which harassment and discrimination are neither tolerated nor acceptable. The University has adopted Smart Working principles to support and further our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion aims of being an inclusive, collaborative and flexible employer. Further details of Smart Working can be discussed at interview stage. Closing date: midnight on 4 February 2024 Interviews are likely to be held on: 13 February 2024 Administrative contact (for queries only): Recruitment@westminster.ac.uk