Principal HR Advisor – HR Professional Services

Temporary Principal HR Advisor - HR Professional Services

Reference no:  Greenwich RQ1115867

Pay rate: £17.27 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 35 Monday to Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 5 months

City: WOOLWICH, London

A Principal HR Advisor is required to undertake a senior advisory role and may be required to deputise for the HR Manager. Credibility and confidence together with a detailed understanding of a complex public sector organisation is required for this role, to work closely with, and coach, managers to meet their current and future people needs. Key responsibilities will primarily focus on case management and the management of change at all levels, working in partnership with managers in order to support them in achieving their people management outcomes. To provide thorough and technically comprehensive advice to internal and external customers on a range of human resource and workforce development issues including but not limited to: employee relations, disciplinary and grievance, employment policies and procedure organisational design, resourcing and succession planning.

Key responsibilities:

• Support Directors and senior managers across a varied workload and quickly build positive and effective relationships to deliver the best outcomes across the employee life-cycle including resourcing, performance management, dismissal appeals, complex employee relations cases.
• Provide high quality, focussed advice and guidance to managers in relation to organisational change and the application of the council’s formal employment procedures.
• Lead a team of HR officers providing HR advisory services and embed agile working across the HR Professional Services Team by responding to the needs of Directorates as required, acting as an expert point of reference for the team.
• Develop excellent communication channels to work in partnership with all partners and senior stakeholders. Identify the need for and design bespoke interventions to build capacity and capability of services and the organisation, evaluating interventions to ensure they meet agreed targets.
• Build knowledge and capacity across the HRPS, H&S and WFD service and with customers. Adopt best practice approaches to project management and use management information and data effectively to ensure added value is identified and delivered.
• Supervise, mentor and coach junior members of the HRPS Team to build knowledge and capacity, ensuring a consistent standard of service delivery and strengthen talent management and succession planning within HR.
• Manage a range of processes and performance indicators to ensure that all HR casework is managed in a timely manner and takes full account of relevant employment legislation and organisational precedent.
• Undertake pre-employment checks in a timely manner.
• Work with the managers on organisational change e.g. organisation design, job design, structural and cultural aspects of change, recruitment implications, learning & development implications and ER aspects of change.
• Deputise for the Deputy HR Team Manager/ Strategic HR Manager as necessary.

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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.