HR Advisor - Fixed Term Contract

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

Job role: HR Advisor

This is a fixed term contract, which is likely to last until end of January 2025.

Hours: Hours of work will be 0+:00-17:00 either 3, 4 or 5 days per week will be considered

Happy to talk flexible working

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team: HR Operations

Location: Liverpool (with travel to other UK offices).

Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer
• Annual leave starting at 25 days
• Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
• Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
• 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
• Flexible pension scheme
• ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
• Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
• Medicash
• EAP with access to counselling
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
• Life assurance
• Group income protection
• Annual travel season ticket loan
• Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
• Bespoke training and development opportunities.

Role Overview

Introduction to the role:

Hours of work will be 0+:00-17:00 either 3, 4 or 5 days per week will be considered

Introduction To The Team

Led by a HR Director, the HR team strive to deliver a seamless service to all Partners and employees. The team provide expert advice and support in areas such as employee relations, recruitment, learning and development, diversity and inclusion and reward.

Key Responsibilities
• Providing HR related support to employees when required
• Coaching and supporting managers to deal with employee related matters
• Management and support with a variety of ER cases, including and not limited to:
• Performance management
• Absence management
• Disciplinary
• Grievance
• Restructuring
• Redundancy
• Termination of contracts
• Making Occupational Health referrals and supporting line managers with recommendations and reasonable adjustments
• Undertaking duty of care meetings with employees
• Assisting with policy reviews and making recommendations for changes
• Production of ad-hoc reports and spreadsheets
• Production of formal paperwork and letters as required
• Involvement in any ad-hoc HR projects as required
• Collation and production of monthly payroll information for processing
• Management of records within the central HR system
• Where appropriate, involvement in wider HR team related initiatives including, but not limited to ED&I, reward, recruitment
• Where applicable you may be asked to support with HR related activities in other UK offices (Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, London, Birmingham).

What Are We Looking For

Important criteria:
• Previous generalist/operational HR experience
• Ability to proactively manage and advise management and support with formal HR related processes
• Demonstrable experience of managing an ER caseload in line with policy and best practice
• Ability to have difficult conversations when applicable
• Experience of using a HR system
• Good judgement and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills and ability to deal with stakeholders at varying levels
• Able to operate in a busy and fast paced environment
• Be able to work under own initiative
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Flexibility in approach and willingness to work outside of normal office hours, if required.

It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:
• Previous experience of working in a law firm or the professional services sector
• Level 5 CIPD qualification is preferred.

If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to apply and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability,l orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

Values

Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration

At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

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