HR Adviser

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Job Details

We have a number of HR Adviser vacancies and are seeking experienced, enthusiastic practitioners who are committed to making a difference in a challenging and rewarding role as part of our HR business partnering team.

In HR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work collaboratively, balancing compliance, consistency and pragmatism in our support and advice and support to managers across the Council. Our aim is to deliver a professional HR service that helps managers to support and manage their employees through planned activities such as workforce planning and workforce change and through comprehensive HR case work. This requires the ability to understand the organisation and the challenges services face, to build effective working relationships with managers and the Trade Unions, and utilising knowledge and experience to provide timely advice and support to ensure effective management of a range of operational HR activities.

As an HR Adviser in within HR’s People Solutions Team, you will manage a diverse and often-demanding case load, supporting assigned Service areas. Reporting to an HR Business Partner, you will work with a high level of autonomy on absence management, grievance, disciplinary and performance management cases, providing professional advice to managers to ensure effective case progression within procedures and best practice. You will lead on change projects, supporting consultation, communication and implementation of workforce and structural change of varying scales. You’ll represent HR at Hearings, providing specialist advice, and at a range of meetings, preparing and providing management information and relevant updates.

You’ll also be involved in other assigned projects, such as delivery of training, data collection and analysis, and research, and you will participate in the HR Duty rota, providing information and advice to support our shared service centre model. As an experienced practitioner, you will provide support to newer and developing HR colleagues.

We have a range of policies and practices in place to support employees including flexible working patterns that balance individual and service need, family friendly policies, training and development opportunities, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and opportunity for Shared Cost AVCs, employee counselling service, and discounts on a wide range of products and services.

The Person

You will be educated to Degree level or equivalent (SCQF level 9) and hold Chartered MCIPD membership.

You will bring substantial practical experience of dealing with a range of HR operational matters and have the confidence and credibility to navigate complexities. You will have the ability to think systematically and holistically, to assess needs, opportunities and challenges, to recommend solutions and actions, and to adapt to changing priorities. You will be able to communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively. You’ll be comfortable working with HR systems and technology, using data and evidence to inform recommendations.

The HR Service:

We champion good people management across the Council, supporting all aspects of employment. The HR Service is currently structured around four functional teams: HR People Solutions, covering business partnering (these vacancies) and the attendance support unit; HR Policy and Reward; HR Strategy, Organisational Development and Wellbeing; and, Health, Safety and HR Systems.

Within the HR People Solutions Team, led by an HR Service Manager, there are five HR Business Partners, each partnering a Council Directorate, and an HR Team Manager who leads the work of the Attendance Support Unit. You will report directly to an HR Business Partner and be primarily assigned to deliver activities to drive forward case management, employee relations and projects within the assigned Directorate. We value teamwork, knowledge sharing and collaboration and you would be expected to support activities in other areas too.

The HR Service is based in Fife House, Glenrothes, where we have desk-based and collaborative workspaces. We offer an option of a blended workstyle, providing a balance of office working and home working.

For further information please contact: Lee Ryan - lee.ryan@fife.gov.uk