HR Advisor / Personnel Officer

HR Advisor / Personnel Officer

Location: Dunstable (on-site), LU5, with occasional travel across sites

Salary: £45,000

Our client provides tailored linen services to healthcare providers, hospitality businesses and venues across the UK. They are a busy, operational, multi-site business, and their people play a vital role in helping them deliver a reliable, high-quality service to their customers every day.

They now have a great opportunity for an experienced HR Advisor to join their team and report directly into the General Manager of the site. This role would suit someone who enjoys being close to the business, working with managers, supporting employees and getting involved in a broad range of day-to-day HR activity.

This is a hands-on role where no two days will be the same. You will be supporting line managers with employee relations matters, helping to ensure that decisions are fair, consistent and in line with policies, procedures and employment law. You will also play an important part in supporting managers to develop their teams and deliver an excellent service.

What you'll be doing

As their HR Advisor, you will be involved in a wide range of HR activity, including:

• Supporting line managers with employee relations matters, ensuring processes are fair, consistent and compliant.
• Providing practical guidance to managers so they feel confident in managing their teams effectively.
• Supporting absence management processes, including sickness and holiday.
• Helping to promote activities that support employee engagement.
• Managing recruitment campaigns and supporting the full employee lifecycle.
• Supporting onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure employees have a positive experience when joining or leaving the business.
• Supporting onsite HRIS activity and helping make sure people data and processes are well managed.

About you

More than anything, they are looking for someone who will fit well with their values and way of working. You will be someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, can build strong working relationships and is confident giving practical, balanced HR advice.

You may already hold, or be working towards, a CIPD qualification, or you may be able to demonstrate strong experience working at HR Advisor level. You will have a good understanding of employee relations and employment law, and you will be comfortable supporting managers through complex people matters in a way that balances the needs of the business with fairness to the individual.

Our client would love to hear from you if you

• Enjoy working on employee relations casework and finding practical solutions.
• Understand the importance of best practice, compliance and consistent application of policies and procedures.
• Care about creating an engaging and inclusive workplace.
• Enjoy being involved in recruitment, onboarding and offboarding.
• Can build credibility with line managers and are comfortable constructively challenging where needed.
• Are confident using an HRIS and supporting HR systems activity.