Senior HR Advisor

About the role

Contract: Permanent

Hours:

30 or 37 hours per week, 52 weeks or Term Time Only + 2 weeks (40 weeks per year). 

A term time / non term time pattern may be considered for the right candidate.

All roles will require some flexibility in working hours with occasional work outside of the normal 8:30am – 5:00pm cycle as per customer and business needs.

Salary: £35,000 - £41,725 pro-rata

Location: Hybrid working with flexibility required to work remotely and on site in educational settings in Hertfordshire, and neighbouring counties as required. Working at least 1 day per week minimum from our Head office in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and as required to meet business needs.

At HFL Education, we're leaders in HR solutions for the education sector.  We believe in delivering exceptional services for our school customers and improving educational outcomes for pupils and children. 

We're also proud to provide our employees with exciting opportunities to advance their careers within our supportive and collaborative environment.  Following internal promotions we are seeking two enthusiastic and proactive Senior HR Advisors to join our team.

This is a varied, dynamic, and interesting role which will cover the full remit of generalist HR, with significant involvement in the management of complex employee relations casework, as well as supporting our customers with complex projects and consultancy. There are also numerous projects you will lead and own including running an HR forum, project managing HR conferences, and leading on our blog presence and thought leadership.

You'll be part of a team that values flexibility and pragmatism and has a heart for making a difference. Your expertise will empower our school customers to build strong, collaborative teams, ensure a positive impact on both staff and students. 

To be suitable for this role you will need to demonstrate an inquisitive, solution-focused approach to HR practice, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of senior stakeholders.

Our ‘working from anywhere’ approach provides colleagues the opportunity to work flexibly in line with their role requirements. The ability to reach different locations by car will be essential for this role. If you drive, then a full driving licence and appropriate car insurance will be required. As there is a permanent home working element to this role, you will need to ensure you are equipped for home working.

Benefits: a generous employer pension contribution, 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 31 days after five-years) or the equivalent paid for Term Time employees, family-friendly policies, hybrid working, paid mileage, a cycle to work scheme, access to mental health and wellbeing support, company performance bonus, professional development opportunities, benefit schemes for discounts and cashback offers, and more.

Would you like to know more information about this opportunity? If so, further information can be found in the job outline. You can also contact Chris Williams or Hena Mahmood on 01438 544463 or email hena.mahmood@hfleducation.org or chris.williams@hfleducation.org

To apply, email hfl.recruitment@hfleducation.org with a detailed CV along with a supporting statement to include responses to the following questions, alternately apply via our website: Join our team | HFL Education

1. Please provide an example of how you would embed one of HFL core values in this role?  Ensuring it aligns with our organisation? 
   • Explain how you regularly evaluate and adapt your approach to ensure that your responsibilities and actions are in line with the organisations core values.
2. Provide an example of a complex ER case or project you had to communicate or consult with stakeholders.
   • Please outline:
     • The specific actions you took to manage this situation. How you used HR practices to ensure protocols were followed.
     • The outcome of the case or project.
     • Any learnings you gained from this experience for future situations you may support?

Please indicate in your application the hours you are applying for and if you are seeking a full-year role or part-year role. 

As part of our move towards eradicating unconscious bias within the recruitment process, we will be anonymising your forms.

For recruitment queries, our Central Recruitment Team can also be contacted on the hfl.recruitment email address above. We would love to hear from you.

The interview process will consist of a 30-minute screening meeting via Teams call with the hiring manager.

Successful applicants from the screening stage will be invited to face to face interview in our Head Office in Stevenage.

As we review applications on a rolling basis, we may close the advert if we find a suitable candidate. To ensure you don’t miss this opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

We are committed towards becoming an anti-racist organisation, and our recruitment statement is set out below in support of this.

HFL is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We insist on the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and will never condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

HFL is also equally committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and we encourage you to view our Anti-racist position statement which gives clarity on our anti-racist stance. In our relentless efforts to be an anti-racist organisation, we recognise the negative impacts of under representation and lack of diversity in our organisation, our education system and in all aspects of our society. Therefore, for recruitment into any HFL post, where we have 2 or more candidates of equal merit, candidates with protected characteristics will be given advantage over candidates without such characteristics. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘tie-breaker’ and is referred to as ‘positive action’ in the Equality Act 2010.

To help us meet our high standards and aspirations of a fully diverse and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply and to join us.

Please note that if you are invited to interview, we will expect you to be prepared to discuss unconscious bias with us; we find these conversations more than any others give us all a good idea of what working together will be like.