HR Advisor

Job Title: HR Advisor
Department: HR Partnering & Advisory
Reporting to: Senior HR Business Partner
Location: UK
Band: 4
Date: September 2023

Job Purpose
As an HR Advisor, you’ll be responsible for delivery of a people centric HR Advisory service aligned to our strategy, employee value proposition, policies, and procedures to drive a positive employee experience.

You will manage employee relations cases and support organisational design and transformative change initiatives.

Successful delivery of the strategy takes place across the wider HR Team, so you’ll need to work collaboratively with the wider HR team to support HR projects and initiatives.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Trusted Coach & Confidant

In this aspect of the role, you will:

• deliver a customer focussed high quality and effective HR Advisory Service from start to finish (to a successful resolution) ensuring behaviours are in line with the employee value proposition, and risks to the business are minimised.

• influence and coach managers on a full range of people management matters including conduct, performance improvement, flexible working, parental leave, non-attendance, and capability. You will seek guidance from the wider HR Team as required to ensure the business operates in a safe, fair, and equitable manner.

• interrogate and analyse management information i.e., HR Dashboard, Customer Feedback Survey, to identify key trends, formulate and implement targeted action plans or process improvements where required.

• contribute to organisational design activities such as job evaluation and salary benchmarking, restructures, redundancies, acquisitions, TUPE initiatives.

• contribute to the continued development and implementation of inclusive and scalable HR policies and procedures across Cabot and communicating these clearly and accessible to stakeholders at all levels.

• support the design and delivery of people management training through workshops and coaching sessions.

• act as a trusted advisor to managers with good consulting, coaching, mentoring and facilitation skills, and an ambassador for the HR Team demonstrating our values at all times.

• maintain up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation, market conditions and HR best practice and trends, sharing insights with stakeholders, where appropriate.

• demonstrate commitment to Continuous Professional Development by regularly seeking out opportunities to broaden HR experience, develop skills and update knowledge.

People Champion

In this aspect of the role, you will:

• proactively build and maintain strong, professional, and effective working relationships with stakeholders to ensure the business has the appropriate level of support to deliver a seamless and first-class employee experience that drives performance.

• promote our employee value proposition - benefits, career development, work environment, culture, financial and non-financial reward, and recognition and identify potential gaps/improvements in these areas.

• work in collaboration with stakeholders to support the implementation and adoption of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Wellbeing initiatives within Cabot, including signposting colleagues and managers.

• travel between UK sites as and when required to support the achievement of strategic outcomes.

• provide cover within the HR Advisory team as and when required.

Key Working Relationships & Communications

Internal: UK, Group, EU & Encore HR Teams; People Managers and Leaders; Colleagues

External: Suppliers; ACAS; CIPD, HR Network

Person Specification:

Formal Education & Certification
You’ll be qualified at CIPD Level 5 (or be working towards it) or have equivalent working experience.

Knowledge & Experience

You will require:

• a HR generalist background and be keen to build on your existing knowledge and experience of good HR practices and processes.

• a calm and professional approach to sensitive people issues.

• the ability to work in a complex work environment, thinking on your feet with a pragmatic approach.

• the curiosity to appropriately question, influence and advise to ensure the business assesses and understands the impacts of decisions on people.

• good organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.

• good attention to detail.

• intermediate knowledge of Microsoft-based applications (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Personal Attributes

To be successful in this role you will be:
• a collaborator, able to build relationships.
• passionate about delivering a people centric, high performing service.
• a strong team player who can collaborate with others.
• open minded, with an agile growth mindset.
• driven and tenacious.
• fully accountable, and able to hold others to account.
• a good communicator with influencing skills.
• organised, articulate, calm and tactful.
• passionate about continuous improvement and self-development.
• able to deliver HR with attitude, passion, and integrity.

Values

We Care. We put people first and engage with honesty, empathy, and respect.

We Find A Better Way. We deliver our best in everything we do, find ways to

make positive differences, and achieve impactful results.

We Are Inclusive & Collaborative. We embrace our differences and work together to ensure every individual can thrive.