Description
Purpose of the Job
Lead Consultants have responsibility for one or more HR specialist areas and report to a functional HR&OD Manager, and/or operate as a professional/ technical specialist working with services to improve organisational performance through the provision of leading-edge HR&OD practices. They build and maintain strong and productive relationships to deliver a range of strategic and operational solutions.
The key accountabilities of this role are:
- To provide managers with consistent, pragmatic and effective advice on the management and resolution of people issues covering a wide range of HR areas, mitigating risk to the organisation whilst optimising resources to deliver highly effective and creative solutions.
- To work in partnership with the client group at a senior level to establish an excellent understanding of their service and the challenges they face to proactively identify opportunities for operational and strategic intervention capitalising on external best practice;
- To manage HR&OD casework and projects and provide a high quality, professional and solution-based service to clients.
Principal Accountabilities
- Analysis, Reporting & Documentation
- Assess or conduct analysis, presenting results and putting forward recommendations on managing more complex situations to support decision making.
- Analyse and make recommendations for improvement or development of existing systems, processes, or policy.
- Customer Service & Support
- Maintain, develop and review systems, processes, procedures and working methods to maximise service delivery, quality, efficiency and compliance.
- Provide specialist/professional advice and recommendations within defined policy/strategy and procedures to support informed decision making.
- Planning & Organising
- Plan workloads and secure resources to enable the team/s to achieve a quality service.
- Lead projects and reviews within a defined area of work as directed by manager to support and enhance service delivery.
- Finance/Resource Management
- May assist with budget/resource/funding management in accordance with the council policies and procedures.
- May have delegated responsibility for a budget(s).
- Work with others
- Liaise, communicate and build relationships with other internal departments, customers, partner organisations, agencies and/or contractors to support and represent the team/service.
- People Management
- May manage a team operating in a well defined specialist area or oversee the delivery of a range of support services to a service or function.
- Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members to
- ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
- Operate as an individual responsible for the delivery of a high level and complex service.
Requirements
We are looking for a qualified HR Advisor or Consultant who can demonstrate 2 years plus experience working on employee relations cases, who can demonstrate being successful in holding fair disciplinary and grievance hearings
Essential Experience – Trade unions, employee relations & casework
If this role is of interest then please apply immediately
