HR Advisor

This Housing Association is looking for a confident, people-focused individual with great interpersonal skills to join their HR team.

Job Title: HR Adviser - maternity cover
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
Salary: £42,000
Contract: Fixed term contract up to one year, or until the substantive post holder returns

This role is based at our client's Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.

Please note: Our client can only able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.

Requirements

The organisation is looking for an experienced, highly motivated, people-focused generalist Adviser with great interpersonal skills for this busy HR role to cover maternity leave absence.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a small, but supportive, People and Culture Team working on all aspects of generalist HR advice and support. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing excellent people-focused services, and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.

You will bring your knowledge and experience of providing generalist HR advice and support to line managers. You should be a resilient, professionally curious person, who is enthusiastic about developing a career in HR.

You will work closely with the People and Culture Manager in a generalist capacity, to support with continuous improvement across all areas of P&C work, while helping to support and achieve our organisational objectives.

Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:

• Coaching and advising line managers on all People matters.
• Managing and progressing HR casework.
• Working collaboratively with recruiting managers to help design JD&PS, job adverts, and assessments for candidates (to ensure we get the very best people for the job).
• Providing support across all HR projects and proactively contributing creative ideas.

You

The organisation is seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an efficient and customer-focused service to employees, managers and senior leaders. This is busy and varied role, so our client is looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, who can adapt to a fast-paced working environment while ensuring consistency, alongside considering and minimising risks. You should have experience of working independently with limited supervision and highly skilled at prioritising your workload.

You don't need to have worked in Housing before, but you should have experience of working in a HR team with knowledge of HR good practice. You need to be flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, and have excellent communication and influencing skills. A great sense of humour will serve you in good stead working in a busy, fast paced office, and your sound judgement skills will be second to none.

Don't feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. Our client is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you're excited by this role but your experience doesn't quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.

About the Employer

This society is a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Their ambition is for the communities they are anchored in and exist to serve, and they have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times they know they'll achieve nothing unless they are equally ambitious for their people.

Their values are at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions. They strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.

They can't be a brilliant landlord if they don't partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?

If this sounds exciting, they want you on their team. Please do submit an application.

Staff Benefits
They will offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years' service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. They have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and they will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.

Inclusion and Diversity
They want their organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in the team, and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything they do.

This role is based at this organisation's Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.

Deadline: 09:00 on 03 March 2025.

Interview: week commencing 10 March 2025 in London

Interested?

Please click the job board apply button to be taken to the next stage where you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions. You will be taken to a simple CHM holding page before landing on the employer's website, once you have landed on their website, you will need to do the following in order to apply for this role:

Application Process

Please apply with your CV and a covering letter telling us: -

(a) After reading the job description and person spec, why you feel you are a great fit, and how your experience matches the skills and requirements of the role?

(b) About one challenge that you've had around managing a customer's expectation within the social housing arena, how you managed it, and what did you learn?

(c) Can you describe a time when you're listening skills helped you understand a customer's issue?

(d) When completing multiple tasks with competing deadlines, how do you prioritise?

(e) anything else you want us to know about you.

Please note: They are only be able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.

Applications sent without a covering letter will not be accepted.

This employer is committed to making their recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If this applies to you, you will have the chance to request any reasonable adjustments further in the process.

No agencies please.