HR Consultant

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this HR Consultant position sits within a boutique HR consultancy that prides itself on the service it offers its clients and family-feel culture.

What’s in it for you?

• Work hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
• Salary: Circa £50,000, depending on experience
• Pension scheme
• Plenty of progression opportunities

HR Consultant Responsibilities:

• Act as the first point of contact for a dedicated set of accounts, both for ongoing and ad-hoc HR work
• Use your intense knowledge to guide clients and deliver exceptional HR support
• Develop bespoke HR plans for clients and support with delivery and implementation, ensuring they are delivered to agreed timescales
• Manage various complex employee relations cases, taking the lead on investigations, working autonomously to make final decisions
• Undertake grievance, disciplinary, and capability investigations and make recommendations
• Assist clients with TUPE transfers, company restructures, and redundancies
• Provide guidance and hands-on support with sickness absence
• Attend and lead a range of meetings and hearings, depending on what is required by the client
• Collate data and produce management reports
• Create HR documents including specialist contracts of employment, policies and procedures, letters relating to formal proceedings, and general HR and recruitment correspondence
• Ensure HR databases and client records are well maintained and contain accurate information
• Support the internal team where necessary, sharing your knowledge and insights with the junior team and supporting their growth and development

HR Consultant Skills and Experience:

• Extensive HR experience, we expect the successful candidate to already be operating as a HR Consultant, HR Manager or HR Director
• A HR-related qualification would be preferable, such as CIPR Level 5, MCIPD or FCIPD
• Proven track record of managing complex ER cases and is confident working on a number of cases at once
• Demonstrates experience of taking the lead on investigations and hearings of disciplinaries and grievances
• Has exceptional generalist HR knowledge and stays up to date with the latest employment law
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise with several clients and is confident providing guidance and coaching
• Articulate, and confident handling queries and sharing constructive feedback
• Excellent customer service skills, comfortable engaging with new business enquiries and quoting process or our products and services
• Enjoys an autonomous role and is confident taking the lead and using initiative
• Exceptional organisational skills and a proven ability to work under pressure whilst ensuring accuracy, quality and attention to detail at all times.
• Possesses a driving license and can travel to clients within the Midlands