HR Advisor

Department: Human Resources

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Middleton Stoney, United Kingdom

Reporting To: Lisa Genovese, Director of HR

Description

We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our team and play a key role in supporting managers and employees across the full employee lifecycle. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will provide high-quality, pragmatic HR guidance and administrative support, helping to build a positive, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture. This is a hands-on role, suited to someone who enjoys balancing employee relations, recruitment and generalist HR tasks within a supportive team.

This role requires onsite presence 3 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a first point of contact for managers and employees, providing timely, legally compliant HR advice.
• Support and guide managers through employee relations matters including absence, performance, disciplinary and grievance cases.
• Conduct or support HR investigations, ensuring fairness, consistency and accurate documentation.
• Manage family-friendly and statutory leave requests, including flexible working.
• Liaise with occupational health and support effective return-to-work processes.
• Support and play an active role in recruitment activity, advising hiring managers on best practice.
• Work with the HR & Recruitment Coordinator on recruitment activity including job descriptions, shortlisting and interviews where required.
• Support with onboarding, offboarding and contractual changes to ensure a positive employee experience.
• Coordinate internships, graduate schemes and work experience placements.
• Conduct exit interviews and identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain accurate HR and recruitment data and systems.
• Support managers with probation reviews, performance management, PDPs and career development.
• Deliver and continuously improve the induction experience, including completing the HR induction for new starters.
• Support and facilitate management and employee training sessions.
• Source and organise cost-effective training aligned to business needs.
• Support the annual employee engagement survey and related action planning.
• Champion company values, wellbeing, inclusion and employee engagement initiatives.
• Support with the global payrolls, and benefit administration as required.
• Support with the coordination of the annual salary review, and quarterly reward schemes.