Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
*Provide professional HR advice & guidance to schools in relation to employment law and conditions of service
*Act as a primary designated first point of contact for nominated Schools / Services.
*Develop positive and constructive professional relationships with schools managers.
*Provide advice and guidance to managers in relation to contractual changes, ensuring instructions issued to the Contracts Team / payroll are accurate and in accordance with policy and legislation.
*Provide professional support to Senior HR Consultants / Team Leader in implementing restructures redundancies and other significant HR projects.
*Support and advise managers in managing employees under the Managing Attendance Policy, including undertaking sickness analysis, attendance at review meetings and contributing towards the development of action plans.
*Undertake Occupational Health referrals, providing all supporting information and documentation.
*Undertake confidential investigations in accordance with the Disciplinary and Dignity at Work policies.
*Attend and advise at meetings in respect of routine employee matters, including probation reviews, capability and informal disciplinary issues.
*Support the development, implementation and review of HR policy and procedure.

The Ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in the following:

Essential:
- Part qualified or willing to work towards a relevant HR related qualification
- Experience in providing advice in a busy HR team
- Knowledge of employment law
- An understanding of pay and conditions for schools based staff
- Customer care and communication skills
- Experience of using MS Office packages
Desirable:
- Experience of providing HR advice to schools
- Experience of undertaking HR casework
- Experience of providing advice on and participating in recruitment processes

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Essential: - Part qualified or willing to work towards a relevant HR related qualification - Experience in providing advice in a busy HR team - Knowledge of employment law - An understanding of pay and conditions for schools based staff - Customer care and communication skills - Experience of using MS Office packages