HR Advisor

The Vacancy

✨ HR Advisor ✨

📍 Location: Finsbury Park (Hybrid Working)
🏢 Business Unit: WPS
📅 Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract – 6 Months

🌟 About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced HR professional to join our WPS business as a HR Advisor on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is a key role supporting the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures, driving best practice across the business, and providing expert guidance on employee relations matters.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• ✅ Support the development and roll-out of new and updated HR policies, procedures, and guidance documents, including communication briefs and training.
• 🔄 Deliver HR project work such as TUPE transfers and change management initiatives.
• 🤝 Build strong relationships with managers to embed HR policies and practices within their business areas.
• 🎓 Coach and support managers, HR operations teams, and People Directors in applying HR policies and processes effectively.
• 🛡 Provide expert advice on employee relations issues including disciplinary, grievance, bullying & harassment, performance improvement, absence, redundancy, and redeployment.
• 👩‍⚖️ Attend and support managers during complex hearings (disciplinary, grievance, capability, and appeals).
• 📚 Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employment law, WPS policies, and health & safety requirements.
• ⚖️ Manage relationships with external legal advisers and occupational health providers to ensure services are fully utilised.
• 📝 Manage senior hire offer contracts and ensure HR systems and databases remain accurate.
• 📊 Produce monthly HR reports and maintain ER case tracking systems.
• 🔒 Ensure confidentiality and compliance with data protection requirements.
• 🚀 Take responsibility for your own continuous professional development.

💡 About You
We’re looking for someone with:

• 📖 Up-to-date knowledge of employment law and HR best practice.
• 🔍 Strong understanding of HR processes and metrics.
• 🗣 Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal – with the ability to influence and build rapport at all levels.
• 🏆 Previous experience in an HR role, including supporting hearings and drafting outcome letters.
• 🔄 Proven ability to drive improvements and manage change.
• 🔐 High integrity and discretion in handling sensitive information.

🎓 Qualifications

• 🎓 Graduate calibre.
• 📜 CIPD qualified (or equivalent).

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Once you apply of the Recruitment Team will then be in contact and advise of next steps.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.