Role: People and Culture Advisor

Salary: Competitive
Location: Huntingdon
Type: Permanent

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced People and Culture Advisor to act as the first point of contact between People & Culture and the wider business, providing advice and guidance, partnering managers with operational People & Culture support including employee relations and employment law advice. To support the People & Culture Business Partner in the implementation of the ongoing People & Culture Strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Provide a customer-focused People & Culture advisory service which supports and guides all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Provide advice and guidance to all managers on a range of People & Culture policies, procedures, and People & Culture related issues (including ER cases, probations, performance management, etc.)
• Provide regular updates to the People & Culture Business Partner on ER case loads and trends, with proposed solutions and actions.
• Review and update internal People & Culture policies and communicate when required to the wider business.
• Absence management - Daily updating and monitoring of absence records, managing long-term and short-term absences, chairing welfare meetings, and coordinating Occupational Health referrals with the welfare meetings.
• Providing general People & Culture administrative support - processing contractual changes, e-filing, responding to enquiry emails, maintaining the People & Culture inbox together with the People & Culture Co-ordinator.
• Support the People & Culture Co-ordinator in the management of all family/friendly policies.
• Support, as needed, with the onboarding process such as introduction of new starters, preparation of relevant correspondence including job offers, issuing of new starter packs, processing employment contracts, and setting up on internal database.
• Maintain accurate records using TMS and e-files.
• Providing and updating weekly KPI information.
• Attendance at factory daily review meetings as required.
• Coordinate and deliver employee engagement activities - reward and recognition, employee forums, employee surveys, internal communication systems (internal app).
• Supporting new and ongoing People & Culture Projects as agreed.