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Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Working closely with Senior and Middle Managers to provide specialist advice and support for their service delivery and business development, building their management capability through coaching and guidance.

Macclesfield

Operating as an internal HR consultant to my client group, developing initiatives aligned to business objectives and working to build People Manager capability and drive performance. HR lead for organisational change projects. Planning and managing the change process including highlighting risk, dependencies, potential scenarios and options to mitigate.Managing complex and sensitive employee relations casework through to effective conclusion. Managing and developing a small team providing HR Advice and payroll. Key stakeholder in developing consistency of approach in attracting and recruiting talent to support current and future organisational needs, including culture change and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. Defining and developing policies, guidance and processes to continuously drive improvements that support the People strategy and objectives and best practice. Using data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of tools and policies and understand the landscape for further improvement.Delivery of training and coaching to People Managers in a range of topics.

Home Based

Design and development of a variety of HR and Equality & Diversity policies and procedures to deliver against a specific project plan.HR Generalist activity including job design, job evaluation, training design and delivery, communications, projects and third party supplier relationships.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Projects with an operational HR focus (from design to implementation)Team Management and Development of HR Advisers and appraisal reviews Coaching Line Managers in complex ER casework (up to Business Leader level)Subject Matter Expertise -Diversity, Absence, Wellbeing, Occupational Health, EAPRelationship Management with HR SuppliersOversee management of budget and invoicesProcess improvements and mappingHealth & Safety / workstation assessment advice Supplier retendering (RFP input and selection)Intranet redesigning and internal communications

Manchester, United Kingdom

Monitoring changes to employment law and Business strategy (including Diversity and Equality specific areas), to assess the impact and amend current or create new guidance as necessary. Provide practical HR Policy, guidelines and tools.Consulting with the Leadership team, wider HR community and Stakeholders on new policy development.Providing advice and coaching for HR on complex problems or more unusual cases.Advising on the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), latterly the Equality Act, Discrimination and Dignity at Work issues, flexible working, recruitment and attraction, sensitive case areas such as HIV cases, gender reassignment. Facilitating and training on HR Policy and Diversity to educate and upskill and support consistency of approach. Harmonisation of Core HR Policies (following merger). This also focused on the People experience and Organisational Culture. Developed pragmatic guidelines to reduce number of routine calls to HR Advisers leaving space for more complex case handling and management training. Responsibility for policy and advisory work that has Company wide impact on staff or has cultural implications or sensitivities e.g. disability confidence, adverse weather, swine flu, flexible working. Attended networking groups to compare & contrast approaches.Diversity Benchmarking activity including Stonewall Workplace Index and Disability Standard (Business Disability Forum). Writing reports, presentations, to escalate issues, achieve sign off and identify key requirements.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Specific project work as identified by the people programme plan, HR Representative for Employee Engagement Group driving specific initiatives, delivered 1-2-1 consultations and briefings for change management, TUPE Projects and consultation with unions e.g worked on the outsourcing of IT staff to external company.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading, motivating and developing an HR Advisory team (9 people) and successfully moving to post-merger T’s and C’s. Identified ways to devolve HR knowledge to Line management and worked to provide seamless support service to the business and HR function

Manchester, United Kingdom

ER Lead in securing successful Employee Relations outcomes e.g. restructures, TUPE, outsourcing exercises. Delivered briefings to groups of colleagues in relation to restructures (50 + people) and supported 1-2-1 redundancy consultations. Initiated Union Learner Reps project to introduce union learner reps to promote lifelong learning and developed an Information and Consultation Agreement

Manchester, United Kingdom

Regularly wrote and amended policies or gave advice which demanded an excellent understanding of employment law and case law, in areas such as Working Time Regulations, Sickness Absence, Employment Contracts, Flexible Working, Discipline & Grievance, Trade Union representation and so on. Produced a Coaching Toolkit for colleagues. Initiated the introduction of a Company wide Capability Policy and procedure.

Stockport, United Kingdom

Lead HR Manager for the Lifetime Careers Group and North Area College. Harmonisation of terms and conditions, introduction of a new HR system, compiling monthly payroll changes, advising on incoming TUPE terms and conditions and so on.

Stockport, United Kingdom

Advising on employment contracts, purple book terms and conditions, delivering training sessions, recruitment and selection.

Middlesbrough

Large scale civilianisation programme - focused on recruitment and selection

Post-Graduate Diploma In Personnel And Development, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Full time Post graduate diploma leading to graduate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (IPM). Now the Chartered.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Honours, Social Policy And Administration, Class 2,1

Social Policy

Diploma, Human Nutrition

Nutritional Therapy