HR Advisor

🔒 Confidential Employer

Posted 11 August 2025

LOCATION

Hove

TYPE

Full-time

LEVEL

Associate

SKILLS

Employee Relations Recruitment Sickness Absence Management HR Policies Employment Legislation Communication Skills Microsoft Office HR Software

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

To be the first port of call for all HR advice and support, including employee relations, recruitment and absence management, for managers and employees.

You will be responsible for ensuring all advice is in line with Grace Eyre’s policies and procedures ensuring best practice is followed which will be up to date with employment legislation.

To provide a high-quality HR service to the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

To provide advice and support to managers and colleagues on general HR queries
To support managers through employee relations case work adhering to appropriate policies and procedures and managed in line with employment legislation
To attend case work investigations and disciplinary hearings as both HR support and note taker
To support and advise managers on sickness absence management, including the generation of the sickness reports and attending meetings when appropriate
To support the HR Manager with organisational change, producing documentation and employee correspondence
To advise managers on recruitment and selection strategies including attracting relevant applicants, interview techniques and job descriptions
To assist with management and policy training including content and delivery
To support the HR Manager with monitoring, reviewing and updating all HR policies and ensuring these are in line with current employment legislation.
To advise on and coordinate employee health and wellbeing initiatives
Pull and analyse any regular HR reporting as directed by the HR Manager or Executive Team
To carry out any other appropriate tasks and duties as delegated by the HR Manager

Core Skills

Excellent communication skills both verbally and written and the ability to communication effectively at all levels
Practical and able to problem solve
Ability to manage a busy work load, prioritising as the business requires
Ability to work with a wide range of people in a calm and supportive manner
Ability to work as part of a team and use own initiative
Be confident and resilient
Good working knowledge of Microsoft office – excel, word, PowerPoint
Experience of working with HR software
Excellent knowledge of and understanding of employment legislation and best practice
Previous experience of working in an HR generalist advisory role especially with disciplinary, sickness absence and capability

Job Details

Job Title: HR Advisor

Department: Head Office - HR

36 Montefiore Road, Hove, BN3 6EP

Location:

Reporting to: HR Manager

Staff responsible for: None

Salary: Salary scale 4

Hours are worked between 9am to 5pm, Monday to

Working Time:

Friday inclusive

Any specific working

Hybrid working

conditions:

Summary of the Role

To be the first port of call for all HR advice and support, including employee relations, recruitment and absence management, for managers and employees.

You will be responsible for ensuring all advice is in line with Grace Eyre’s policies and procedures ensuring best practice is followed which will be up to date with employment legislation.

To provide a high-quality HR service to the organisation.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

To provide advice and support to managers and colleagues on general HR queries
To support managers through employee relations case work adhering to appropriate policies and procedures and managed in line with employment legislation
To attend case work investigations and disciplinary hearings as both HR support and note taker
To support and advise managers on sickness absence management, including the generation of the sickness reports and attending meetings when appropriate
To support the HR Manager with organisational change, producing documentation and employee correspondence
To advise managers on recruitment and selection strategies including attracting relevant applicants, interview techniques and job descriptions
To assist with management and policy training including content and delivery
To support the HR Manager with monitoring, reviewing and updating all HR policies and ensuring these are in line with current employment legislation.
To advise on and coordinate employee health and wellbeing initiatives
Pull and analyse any regular HR reporting as directed by the HR Manager or Executive Team
To carry out any other appropriate tasks and duties as delegated by the HR Manager

The post will include other duties and responsibilities not specified here. It is also likely that changes will be required from time to time.

Qualifications/ Education

• CIPD in Human Resource Management qualification (or working Essential

towards) or other relevant qualification.

Skills/Competencies/Abilities

Excellent communication skills both verbally and written and the ability Essential
to communication effectively at all levels
Practical and able to problem solve Essential
Ability to manage a busy work load, prioritising as the business Essential
requires
Ability to work with a wide range of people in a calm and supportive Essential
manner
Ability to work as part of a team and use own initiative Essential
Be confident and resilient Essential

IT Skills

Good working knowledge of Microsoft office – excel, word, PowerPoint Essential
Experience of working with HR software Essential

Knowledge

Excellent knowledge of and understanding of employment legislation Essential
and best practice
Previous experience of working in an HR generalist advisory role Essential
especially with disciplinary, sickness absence and capability
Experience of working with Unions Desirable
Working knowledge of TUPE Desirable
Knowledge of GDPR Desirable

Our Values

Our organisational values are a shared set of standards that everyone at Grace Eyre can

aspire to and help us to bring our vision, mission, Charter and Our Plan to life.

Our values are: