Area HR Manager

Job Description
Company and role overview
Our client is part of the Education sector and is searching for a proactive candidate to come and join their team to lead the day-to-day delivery of a high quality, comprehensive and customer-orientated HR service for Adult Services within the organisation.
Main responsibilities
- Lead and work alongside with Area Manager/managers
- Manage a variety of case work including conduct, grievance, absence, capability, restructures, providing professional support
- Conduct occupational health referrals and providing support and advice to managers on how to best use information
- Review, development and implementation of HR policy, procedure, in response to legislation
- Give KPI information such as sickness, vacancies, turnover, to the business
- Ensure documents/records are kept up to date in accordance with statutory and audit requirement
- Undertake HR projects and line manage with HR
- To deliver professional assistance and guaranteeing well-timed resolution of all people matters.
- Help in managing occupational health referrals and offering advice to managers on how to appropriately use the information.
- Check personnel documents are updated in agreement with legal and audit constraints, such as disclosure checks and right to work documents.
- Complete HR projects requested by the Head of HR.
- Assist with the job review process of job descriptions.
Requirements
- Degree level or equivalent.
- MCIPD or Associate member currently working towards upgrading to full membership of CIPD
- Ability to manage and influence opportunities for continuous improvement and change.
- Effective written and verbal communication presentation skills, able to engage effectively with all groups of staff.
- Ability to deal with difficult and sensitive situations in a diplomatic and professional manner.
- Ability to maintain and develop operational systems, policies, and procedures and interpret, employment legislation.
- Ability to self-manage, plan own workload, and maintain progress on a range of issues whilst managing conflicting priorities.
- Ability to produce and analyse management information to support decision making.
- Commercially aware with ability to effectively support business and service development
- Current knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and awareness of issues facing the charitable sector, specifically Social Care.
- Proficient user of computerised HR Information systems.
- Demonstrable experience of providing HR advice and support to managers within an educational setting.
- A track record of success in managing a broad range of HR casework through to successful conclusion.
- Experience of working in social care.
- Experience of developing, HR policy, procedures/systems and managing projects and staff.