Proposed Interview Date: Friday 14 & Monday 17 February 2025
Closing Date: Monday 3 February 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC7 £32,437.03 - £40,358.57 per annum
Working Pattern: 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Location: Fife House, Glenrothes, with option of blended workstyle
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4 and should tell us about your interest in this position and the skills, abilities, and experience you would bring to the team, specifically covering:
* Your skill and ability to foster effective working relationships with managers.
* Your skill and ability to interpret and give advice on HR policies and procedures.
* Your experience in managing a diverse caseload.
Job Details
We have a number of HR Adviser vacancies and are seeking experienced, enthusiastic practitioners who are committed to making a difference in a challenging and rewarding role as part of our HR business partnering team. In HR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work collaboratively, balancing compliance, consistency, and pragmatism in our support and advice to managers across the Council. Our aim is to deliver a professional HR service that helps managers to support and manage their employees through planned activities such as workforce planning and workforce change and through comprehensive HR case work. This requires the ability to understand the organisation and the challenges services face, to build effective working relationships with managers and the Trade Unions, and utilising knowledge and experience to provide timely advice and support to ensure effective management of a range of operational HR activities.
As an HR Adviser within HR’s People Solutions Team, you will manage a diverse and busy caseload, supporting assigned Service areas. Reporting to an HR Business Partner, you will actively support a range of absence management, grievance, disciplinary, and performance management cases, providing professional advice to managers to ensure effective case progression within procedures and best practice. You will give advice and guidance on change projects, supporting consultation, communication, and implementation of workforce and structural change of varying scales. You’ll represent HR at Hearings, providing advice, and at a range of meetings, preparing and providing management information and relevant updates. You’ll also be involved in other assigned projects, such as delivery of training, data collection and analysis, and research, and you will participate in the HR Duty rota, providing information and advice to support our shared service centre model.
The Person
You will be educated to Degree level or equivalent (SCQF level 9) and ideally hold membership of the CIPD. You will bring practical experience of dealing with a range of HR operational matters and have the confidence and credibility to advise, guide, and support managers. You will be a self-starter, able to manage your own workload, adapting to changing priorities and meeting deadlines. You will be able to build effective professional relationships and to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively. You’ll be comfortable working with HR systems and technology, preparing data, collating evidence, undertaking research, and presenting information to inform recommendations.
Further Information
* Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile
* How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information.
* Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services.
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For further information please contact: Lee Ryan - lee.ryan@fife.gov.uk
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