HR Advisor

Sewell Wallis are working with a highly successful and well-established organisation based in South Leeds, West Yorkshire, who are looking to recruit a HR Advisor on a 4-month fixed term contract basis contract basis. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a busy and collaborative team and cover a wide variety of duties.

You will provide HR support across a broad range of activities, including employee relations, performance management, absence management, policy development, training and development, and organisational change initiatives. This would particularly suit someone with strong ER experience who enjoys building relationships. Due to the nature of the contract, the business is looking for someone who is immediately available.

What will you be doing?

• Providing expert HR advice and guidance to managers and employees on a wide range of employee relations matters, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, company policies and best practice.
• Managing employee relations cases including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, capability and long-term absence matters.
• Supporting managers with redundancy processes, restructures and organisational change initiatives.
• Reviewing, updating and developing HR policies and procedures in line with legislative changes and business requirements.
• Monitoring and analysing HR data and metrics, identifying trends and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• Supporting the maintenance of accurate HR systems, records and documentation, ensuring compliance with GDPR and company standards.
• Acting as a key point of contact for HR queries, ensuring timely and professional responses to employees and managers.
• Working closely with managers to identify training needs, skills gaps and development opportunities across the business.
• Coordinating and supporting training and development programmes, including inductions, apprenticeships, internships and graduate programmes.
• Assisting managers with performance review processes, objective setting and employee development plans.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the organisation and proactively supporting employee engagement initiatives.
• Supporting wider HR projects including wellbeing initiatives, reward and recognition programmes, training strategies and continuous improvement activities.

What skills are we looking for?

• Previous experience as a generalist HR Advisor role.
• Proven experience managing employee relations cases including disciplinary, grievance, absence, capability and performance matters.
• Ideally CIPD Level 3 or Level 5 qualified, or currently working towards a professional HR qualification.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the confidence to challenge constructively when required.
• Ability to work independently whilst contributing positively to a wider HR team.

What's on offer?

• Immediate start.
• On-site parking.
• Opportunity to join a supportive and collaborative HR team.
• Exposure across the full employee lifecycle.
• Varied workload with a strong focus on employee relations and stakeholder management.

If you're an experienced HR Advisor looking for your next contract opportunity and are available to start quickly, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply now or contact Eleanor Kirk for more information.

To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.