HR Advisor

Job Summary
Please note this role is office based with travel to client sites around the North East.

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Human Resources Advisor to join our team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering professional, compliant, and proactive HR support to clients. This role provides guidance across all areas of employee relations ensuring alignment with current employment legislation. With strong communication skills and the ability to work autonomously, you maintain trusted client relationships, supports strategic discussions, identifies opportunities for service improvement and upselling, and represents the company as a knowledgeable and approachable HR partner.

Duties

• Engage directly with clients to advise and support on all human resource matters in line with current and changing legislation
• Carry out on behalf of clients in-person meetings such as disciplinaries, grievances and investigations and the outcome of these
• Stay updated with legislative changes and communicate these effectively to clients
• Populating and issuing HR documentation such as offer letters, new starter information, and contracts via DocuSign or HRIS system such as Breathe HR
• Create, implement and update policies and procedures, contracts and performance documents to establish and maintain compliance with employment legislation
• Updating client CRM sheets (Monday.com) to provide an accurate communication trail between clients and company
• Attending strategy meetings
• Identify opportunities to upsell to existing clients
• Proactive account management – calling clients to arrange annual reviews or quarterly check-ins

Skills

• Proven experience with HRIS platforms such as Breathe
• At least 5 years previous experience in conducting disciplinaries, grievances, investigations and performance management and writing detailed formal outcomes
• Writing, reviewing and implementing policies and personnel milestone documentation
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion
• Strong written and oral communication, and people skills
• Ability to use initiative, be forward thinking and manage own workload when given autonomy
• Ability to deal with changing demands in a shifting environment
• Ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining the highest attention to detail
• Able to develop and maintain professional relationships with colleagues and clients

Pay: £33,500.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Darlington DL1 1GL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• HR: 5 years (required)

Language:

• fluent English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• full UK Driving License (required)
• CIPD Level 5 or higher (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (required)

Work Location: In person