We are excited to be recruiting for an HR Advisor to join our supportive HR team of 10 people (including this hire), who support over 370 people across our London, Oxford and Manchester offices. The role will be based at our flagship head office in London on a full-time, 35hr a week basis.
Reporting into the HR Business Partner, the role would offer you variety across the whole HR lifecycle. Your day-to-day tasks will include:
1. Leading on Employee Relations processes including probation management, absence, conduct, performance and grievances. This role will have responsibility for proactively managing their own case workload.
2. Providing advice and guidance to managers and employees on all aspects of HR policy and procedure, terms and conditions of employment. Being the first port of call for people-related queries.
3. Playing a key role in managing the promotions process for Legal and Business Service employees and the transition for Trainees to Newly Qualified Solicitors.
4. Being fundamental in the benefit process, onboarding new benefits and benefit providers and playing an active role in managing the benefit selection process and associated communications.
5. Managing the exit interview process.
6. Contributing to HR projects and cyclical activity as assigned and rolling out initiatives with assigned teams.
ABOUT YOU
You will be able to demonstrate experience in an HR advisory capacity, and either be CIPD qualified (Level 5 or 7) or have the equivalent knowledge through experience. You will enjoy the complexity and application of employment law and use your great communication and relationship-building skills, good attention to detail, and the ability to work across multiple priorities to build long-lasting and trusted relationships with our people across the whole business.
As a standalone HR Advisor, you will work across all 16 of our practice groups and support 7 business services teams. With such a variety of people to work with, you’ll be able to tell us about your experience of handling a range of employee relations casework and liaising with business stakeholders on their people priorities. You will also love utilising HR technology to produce, analyse and interpret MI, using good analytical and numerical skills and interpret/use data to inform HR initiatives/activities.
In return, you will get the opportunity to grow your expertise and personal brand in a collaborative, entrepreneurial working environment.
WHY US
Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing market-leading advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.
Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not-for-profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.
We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We actively encourage a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.
YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY
Application review
Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If your CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.
1st Interview (in person at our Arbor office)
At this stage, you will get the chance to learn more about the role, the firm, team dynamics and to ask any questions you may have. This interview will be with your potential line manager, Lydia Rollin (HR Business Partner), and Ash Evans. Lydia and Ash will be asking you a series of competency-based questions aligned to the behaviours/skills needed to be successful in this vacancy.
Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.
Final interview (in person or via Teams)
At the final interview, you will get the opportunity to meet our Head of HR, Sarah Spillan and find out what she is looking for in the successful person.
Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.
Offer of employment
If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.
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