SPEAR Hiring for HR Advisor at Twickenham Full Time

About Us

We are SPEAR, a charity dedicated to helping homeless people in South West London find secure accommodation and work towards a positive future. For over 35 years, we’ve worked tirelessly to support homeless people to recover from their personal issues and gain support to overcome the barriers they face. We provide a range of accommodation and support services.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our busy HR team here at SPEAR, this role is for a fixed term contract of 1 year. Reporting to the Head of HR, the overall purpose of this role is to provide expert HR advice and guidance to managers and employees on all people related matters. This really is a generalist role where no two days will be the same. You will need to be hands on with all aspects of HR and be prepared to be involved in a variety of tasks. You will have experience of delivering a high quality, flexible HR service, responsive to the needs of the organisation and in line with legislative requirements and good practice.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Provide first-line HR advice, support and guidance to managers and colleagues in all matters of employee relations, including disciplinary, advice, grievance, performance management, change

management, capability and absence management;

• Oversee all end to end recruitment, with the support of the HR Assistant;
• Produce management information reports on a range of issues, to include sickness/absence management, staff turnover and employee life cycle data;
• Monitor, review and update all HR policies and ensure these are in line with the current legislation;
• Provide first line HR advice and guidance to managers and employees on HR policies and procedures, inclusive of; absence / attendance management, maternity, paternity, flexible working requests,

probationary periods, remuneration and benefits etc.;

• Manage employee relations cases as required, including Bullying and Harassment, Conduct, Performance Management, and Sickness absence in line with SPEAR’s Policies, Employment Law and best

practice;

• Work closely with colleagues to identify current and future learning and development needs to devise and implement an action plan.

For the full list of duties, please see attached Job Description.

About You

• CIPD Level 5 or working towards and experience of providing a confident HR advisory service to managers and employees covering generalist activity
• Experience in the development and implementation of employment policies and procedures
• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate and build relationships with a wide range of internal and external contacts to inspire trust and confidence
• A ‘can do’ outcome focused attitude and approach, resourceful and works to make things happen taking others along with them
• Highly organised with the ability to handle conflicting demands through to meet deadlines with minimum supervision
• Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and sensitivity in dealing with HR issues, especially when handling sensitive situations and information
• A confident communicator (both verbal and written) with a personable and professional manner and the ability to interact and relate to all levels of staff and build strong working relationships
• Broad practical knowledge of all areas of HR including employment law and interpreting legislation for the purposes of internal policies / advice

Our Benefits

+24-hour access to confidential counselling services (EAP)

+Free staff wellbeing sessions

+Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

+Enhanced occupational sick pay

+Enrolment into our pension scheme after three months service

+Yearly eye care vouchers

+34 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing with length of service.

+Flexible working

+Free moving house day

+Cycle to work scheme

+Interest-free season ticket loans

+Staff interest-free loan

+Free parking (at some sites)

SPEAR welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.