Senior Hr Advisor

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for Senior HR Advisor to work closely with a police force in the South of England.

As a Senior HR Advisor, you will need to provide delivery and support of a high quality, professional, effective and customer focused HR service and advice to all units managed by the organisation.

Location: Fareham, Hampshire

Contract: 6 to 9 months

Hours: 37 hours, Monday to Friday (1 day per week WFH)

Salary: 20.23 per hour

Start Date: ASAP

Vacancies: 1

Main duties and responsibilities

• Provide accurate, high quality and timely HR advice enabling managers to make informed decisions, maximise employee performance, select the best candidates and/or address workplace issues/conflict.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the different business areas supported by the organisation to effectively deliver practical, timely and quality people solutions, HR services and support, including casework services, HR representation at formal meetings and case conferences, job evaluation, selection interviewing and workforce and succession planning.
• Maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, managers, staff, HR colleagues (both internally and externally) and staff association representatives.
• Accountable for responding to enquiries and considering and providing action/support to managers/staff with a view to improving and sustaining performance, meeting standards and resolving conflict.
• Provide advice to staff, managers and others on application of HR policy and practice and people related matters. Constructively challenge, persuade and influence managers to act and make decisions in accordance with policy/procedure and employment practice to minimise employee relations difficulties and potential ET claims and ensure any identified learning is implemented.
• Supervise, develop and coach HR Officers/Assistants.
• Produce summary reports as and when required and contribute towards policy development, ensuring organisational needs are balanced with good employment practice, inclusion in the workplace and consistency with overall policy/practice.
• Support workplace inclusion, fairness and equality and wellbeing of workers.
• Deliver effective skills training to managers in the area of good people management and practice, e.g. recruitment, performance, conduct & attendance management.
• Undertake HR casework and decide on when to escalate cases to next stages of procedures.
• Deliver high quality recruitment services for organisations and chair or be a member of job evaluation panels as required.
• To manage and complete HR projects as allocated.
• Give regular and effective service.

Person Specification

• Educated to Educated to QCF Level 5 OR work experience deemed to have brought the postholder to a comparable level.
• CIPD graduate (Level 7 Advanced Certificate in Human Resources) or equivalent HR experience deemed to have brought the role holder to a comparable level.
• Additional qualification relevant to role, e.g., British Psychological Society Level A or equivalent qualification.
• Considerable experience in a general HR role, providing HR Advice to a range of managers.
• Experience of dealing with complex cases/enquiries.
• Understanding of relevant UK legislation.

If you would like to be considered for this position and have the relevant experience, then please email your CV to

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.

RSR Justice is a market leading recruitment business dedicated to providing top quality candidates and services to the offender rehabilitation and supervision work sectors.

Red Snapper Recruitment is a member of the Red Snapper Group.

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The Red Snapper Recruitment Group is an equal opportunities employer.