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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Managed case work and processes for; disciplinary, grievance, capability, sickness absence, probation, flexible working and group income protection. Conducted investigations, supported meetings and wrote outcome letters.• Projects; Managed redundancy and TUPE out project. ‘Move champion’ for HR Department in office move.• Administration: Contracts, updates to terms and conditions in letters and in employee management system.• Managed relationships between internal agencies and workflow to Shared service centre in Costa Rica.• Line management responsibility for 2 employees including checking work and performance reviews.

Epsom

• Managed a high volume of employee relations case work (averaging 40 – 50 cases), advising on; performance management, capability, sickness absence, flexible working, probation, disciplinary and grievances• Completed administrative aspects of; redundancy process, settlement agreements, occupational health referrals, Group Income Protection process, involuntary leavers process and bid queries• Policies and Internal guidelines; Transitioning policy, wellbeing, guidance for supporting a colleague at risk of suicide.

Epsom

• Proactively manages short term and long term sickness cases throughout the company. Advise, coach and influence managers to follow company policy, procedure and best practice. Organise occupational health referrals and implement work adjustments where reasonable. Monitor sick pay salary adjustments and income protection eligibility.• Manage fixed term contracts throughout Atkins UK across; experienced hires, Industrial placements and Summer Students. • Manages a high volume and wide variety of employee relations casework efficiently and effectively through to completion or to an escalation point to a specialist team. Case types include; redundancy, compromise agreements, capability, disciplinary, grievance, death in service, probations, right to work, employee references & over payments. Attends formal meetings and note take where appropriate.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Advised hiring managers regarding: employment law, VISA’s, recruitment strategy, recruitment process, agencies and provided salary comparisons• Developed bespoke recruitment strategies for each role, sourcing candidates using a combination of; LinkedIn, job boards, ad words, professional publications, newspapers, talent pooling, open days and the internal bounty scheme• Utilised the recruitment management system Taleo by monitoring and reporting on roles, candidates and sources • Delivered line manager training, advising line managers how to use Taleo more efficiently and effectively• Apprentice Champion within the recruitment team – advising colleagues and managers on the new standardised company apprentice process • Supported Graduate Assessment Centres; evaluating candidates in interviews, presentations and group exercises

• Defined selection strategy for all UK vacancies across all departments up to senior management level. • Sourced candidates via social media, job boards and agencies.• Produced weekly recruitment progress reports for management meetings.• Conducted candidate interviews via telephone and face to face. • Followed internal policy ensuring all approvals were obtained throughout the recruitment process on the Share Point and Confluence systems.• Produced job descriptions, employment offer letter and contracts.

Malvern Instruments are an international company that design, make and sell scientific instrumentation.• Undertook a divisional skills audit, project managing one employee remotely• Designed and implemented UK retirement policy and the pre-retirement coaching process delivering a presentation to the Managing Director to sanction the necessary expenditure• Provided advice to management and employees regarding recruitment, organisational health, training and other HR matters• Produced reports and projects for senior management covering: occupational health, recruitment costs, career pages website analysis, agency fees, advertising costs, training, H&S, VISA legislation, salary benchmarking, contractor salaries and cost per hire• Contributed to the testing and design phase for a divisional SAP HR System for core functions. Creating process work flow charts and tested screens, workflow, portals, data cleansed and repurposed files for SAP. • Regularly attended employment law updatesIn-house recruitment• Coordinated the recruitment process for each UK vacancy• Expanded organisational recruitment methods, reducing the dependency on agencies• Produced information for a recruitment microsite with HAYS.• Wrote, prepared and placed adverts on internal platforms and in external media - agencies, job boards, social media, print media, universities etc• Coordinated and attended recruitment fairs • Arranged interviews, assessment days; booking people, resources and rooms • Provided candidates/agencies and Managers with appropriate information prior to interview• Delivered feedback to candidates and agencies, deliver verbal offers, took up references• Updated and maintained spread sheets on recruitment activity, covering the status of live roles and candidate progress

Postgraduate Certificate, Applied Management

Ba (Hons), Business Studies