Description 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 to us 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. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement. In completing your application, please give full details of your relevant work history and qualifications. 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. We have a range of policies and practices in place to support employees including flexible working patterns that balance individual and service need, family friendly policies, training and development opportunities, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and opportunity for Shared Cost AVCs, employee counselling service, and discounts on a wide range of products and services. In HR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work collaboratively, balancing compliance, consistency and pragmatism in our support and advice and support 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 case load, 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. The HR Service: We champion good people management across the Council, supporting all aspects of employment. The HR Service is currently structured around four functional teams: HR People Solutions (these vacancies), covering business partnering and the attendance support unit; HR Policy and Reward; HR Strategy, Organisational Development and Wellbeing; and, Health, Safety and HR Systems. Within the HR People Solutions Team, led by an HR Service Manager, there are five HR Business Partners, each partnering a Council Directorate, and an HR Team Manager who leads the work of the Attendance Support Unit. You will report directly to an HR Business Partner and be primarily assigned to deliver activities to drive forward case management, employee relations and projects within the assigned Directorate. We value teamwork, knowledge sharing and collaboration and you would be expected to support activities in other areas too. The HR Service is based in Fife House, Glenrothes, where we have desk-based and collaborative workspaces. We offer an option of a blended workstyle, providing a balance of office working and home working. 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. Directorate Information - Council Department information Social Media - Search for more 'Fife Council Jobs' on Facebook or follow us on X FCJobsOfficial. We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time. For further information please contact: Lee Ryan - lee.ryanfife.gov.uk