Robertson Group
HR Advisor
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Overview
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Role: HR Advisor 12 month FTC
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full time or part time considered.
Challenges. Opportunities. Solutions.
At Robertson, we see them our way. We’re bold enough to ask questions. Brave enough to look at things differently. Confident enough to be ourselves. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure and support services business. And as HR Advisor, you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the built environment around us, and for a truly sustainable future.
Your new role
The HR Advisor role provides efficient HR employee relations support to the business units ensuring the effective delivery of the agreed Group HR strategy and providing proactive, business focused HR support and advice. The HR Advisor will ensure effective management of employee relations cases across specific business units. Working closely with Managing Directors and their Senior Leadership teams, regional presence and support is a key aspect of the role.
What you'll do:
- Deliver an effective HR service to the assigned business areas, assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and procedures and in line with best practice in people management.
- Build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Liaise closely with business leaders and managers to monitor HR practices and ensure compliance providing professional advice and guidance.
- Lead in case management across your business areas, complex attendance issues, performance management, grievance, restructures, redundancies, and re-evaluation of posts in accordance with both policies and procedures.
- Ensure consistency and compliance with case management highlighting trends for the wider HR team learning.
- Support when required the development and implementation of HR policies and update Employee Handbooks as appropriate. Ensuring that policies are kept up to date on all relevant drives.
- Lead on the production of HR reports on a regular basis on such topics as employee engagement, sickness absence, turnover, analysing trends and highlighting improvement opportunities to the HR Manager, SLT and Heads of Business.
- Monitor trends in employment practice and employment law to advise on appropriate proactive action.
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What you'll need:
- HR Degree or equivalent
- HR systems experience
- Chartered or Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development or relevant qualification
- Commercially aware
- Committed to CPD
- Focused and highly motivated
- Planning/prioritising and time-management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and writing
- Experience of handling demanding ER caseloads
- Confident in analysing data and interpreting trends
- Strong report writing skills
- Ability to cope under pressure
- Knowledge and understanding of various sectors of the Group and able to work collaboratively across all teams
- Must be able to work independently to achieve deadlines and manage priorities, and maintaining regular communication channels with the wider team
- Focused on continuous improvement
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel
What's in it for me
Our Principles - The Robertson Way
Our principles are our roadmap to achieving positive outcomes and delivering on our purpose. They influence daily decisions around what we do and how we do things, creating an environment of growth, innovation and high performance.
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- We listen
- We are professional
- We take responsibility
- We are determined to succeed
- We are one team
For more information on our principles and culture, please visit: https://www.robertson.co.uk/careers/culture
Benefits of working with Robertson:
In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and employee benefits such as:
- 33 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time or FTC positions, increases with length of service)
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounts (gym memberships, restaurants, days out etc.) with Hapi Rewards App
- Annual Flu Vaccine
- Access to E-Learning
- Health & Wellbeing Support
- Life Management & Financial Support
Diversity & Inclusion:
When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. That’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.
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If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you. To apply for this role and to start seeing things our way, submit your CV.
This role will be subject to pre-employment screening, including references. The level of screening may vary depending on role responsibilities and will be discussed at interview.
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