HR Advisor
Job Description
Job title: HR Advisor
Company: Maidstone Borough Council
Job description: About the Role
The HR Team are looking for a HR Advisor to provide some support for a 10-month period as a result of a team secondment.
You will be joining a team of 18 HR, Payroll, Learning and Development colleagues who provide a HR service to over 800 employees over 2 councils.
This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, working flexibly between home and our offices in Maidstone town centre and Sittingbourne town centre. Both offices have free parking. Part-time working will be considered.
You will work within the HR Shared Service function providing an excellent service to Swale and Maidstone Borough Councils. The post holder will work within a busy HR team providing professional advice and guidance to managers and staff throughout the organisation predominantly on recruitment and sickness absence.
The Council considers this to be a customer focused roles and the ability to converse at ease with customers adapting communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice in accurate spoken English is fundamental to the role.
About Maidstone Borough Council
Maidstone Borough Council is a confident organisation with ambition and aspirations to deliver high quality services to our residents and local businesses. We strive to make the borough an attractive place for all and secure a successful economy. We continue to build on our strengths – assets, knowledge and expertise and our track record for innovation and improvement to create a financially sustainable future so that we can continue with our undiminished plans.
We will only achieve the results we are aiming for through the talents and hard work of all our people. You are encouraged to become part of our vision and in return you can expect support, training, and fair reward from us. We will give you the opportunity to develop the skills to do your job well and create a positive working environment where your ideas about improving how we do things are valued and we manage the changes needed for new ways of working well.
At Maidstone Borough Council we recognise the importance of flexible working and the benefits this can bring to both our staff and the Council. We know that by offering employees a range of flexible working opportunities we can positively impact their wellbeing and engagement, and drive productivity in return. As such we have developed a highly flexible hybrid working policy, alongside our flexi time and flexible working policies, enabling staff to shape their working patterns around building a greater work life balance.
Our Offer:
A range of benefits including:
- Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities
- 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles
- Generous holiday entitlement which increases after 5 years LG service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
- Additional 3 days leave given to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
- Free parking
- Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people’s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight, part time.
- Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities
- Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential & independent information and access to counsellors
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
- Life Assurance – three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
- Season Ticket Loan – to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to & from work
- Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
- Annual flu vaccine
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping
- Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals
- A professional fee payment, if required for the role
About You:
You will have experience of building and maintaining great relationships with managers and employees, acting as a key point of contact in delivering positive outcomes in a professional manner.
You will be experienced in providing support, advice and guidance on absence management, recruitment and selection and writing policies in line with best practice and employment law legislation.
You will have a good understanding of employment legislation, have excellent communication skills and the ability to present clear advice and guidance.
The Council considers this to be a customer focused role and the ability to converse at ease with customers adapting communication style to suit differing audiences and provide advice in accurate spoken English is fundamental to the role.
Selection Process:
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful will be asked to attend an interview.
Maidstone Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Debbie Fallis, HR Manager on 01622 602145
To apply for the position please click on the apply link above and then complete the online application form or by phone on 01622 602555.
Closing Date: Sunday 24 March 2024
Interview Date: Week Commencing 1 April 2024
Expected salary:
Location: Maidstone, Kent
