HR Generalist

HR Generalist - Hatfield, Hertfordshire - Permanent.

A leading IT services company is searching for an HR Generalist to join their team in Hatfield on a permanent basis.

The HR Generalist will join the HR Shared Service team who deal with all Employee HR queries.

Role:

• Providing comprehensive advice on all employee queries, this is done face to face, over the phone or email.
• Employee relations situations including disciplinaries, grievances and the consultation process.
• Case management, you will be supporting and guiding line managers on decisions up to and including dismissal.
• Supporting various consultation processes such as changes to terms and conditions and redundancy and as part of these you could be having to work successfully to redeploy employees.
• As an absence and well-being expert you will own your own area of the business helping managers support their employee's well-being, give advice on both short term and long term absence and work closely with the occupational health team.
• Support and promote regular well-being initiatives and signpost employees to useful resources which help to keep employees well at work.
• Working with the employee relations manager you will be responsible for the relationship with your trade union and support them on negotiations and business changes.

Skills and Experience Required:

• CIPD qualified or working towards your CIPD qualification
• Strong HR generalist background gained in a large organisation
• Excellent up to date knowledge of employment legislation and the application of this
• Experience in making sound, risk assessed decisions for exit strategies
• Expertise in all aspects of absence management
• Ability to respond and manage a busy and diverse workload
• Good communication skills both verbal and written and a confident presentation style
• Passion to work as part of team with a flexible approach to work
• Initiative to work independently while using judgement to know when to ask for support
• An understanding of working with Unions would be useful along with an awareness of TUPE

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