HR Advisor
We are recruiting for an HR Advisor to be based at either our Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester Office, with travel to other UK and Northern Ireland offices as required. This role sits within the HR Business Partnering team, comprising Senior HR Business Partners, HR Business Partners, HR Advisors, and an HR Operations team.
Your Role
As an HR Advisor, you will provide high quality generalist HR support and expert guidance across all stages of the employee lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:
- Employee Relations & Advisory Support
- Act as the first point of contact for managers, providing expert advice on policies, procedures, and employment legislation.
- Support managers with employee relations cases, including performance management, absence, capability, flexible working and disciplinary.
- Attend formal and informal meetings, ensuring consistent application of policy and best practice.
- Work with our occupational health provider to implement recommendations and support wellbeing and family friendly policies.
- Case Management & Data Insight
- Maintain the Employee Relations Tracker, identifying trends and producing analysis and reports.
- Work with HR Business Partners to identify high risk cases and escalate appropriately.
- Operational HR Support
- Provide guidance on changes to employment terms such as secondments, promotions, or contractual changes.
- Ensuring reasonable adjustments are implemented effectively.
- Support on the implementation of TUPE and change processes across the Firm.
- Draft and review policies, procedures, and manager guidance to ensure legal compliance and alignment with best practice.
- Support annual cyclical processes including performance grading, promotions, and salary review.
- Run data and produce analysis relating to exit interviews, leavers, sickness, performance grading, and contribute to the monthly HR Dashboard.
- Recruitment & Workforce Planning
- Support the leaver process, including highlighting risks, assessing workforce needs, and conducting exit interviews.
- Oversee the Authority to Recruit (ATR) process and liaising with Recruitment.
- Project Work
- Work independently and collaboratively on key HR projects that contribute to the Firm’s people strategy.
Your Skills and Experience
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:
- Previous HR generalist or advisory experience.
- Strong relationship building skills and the ability to influence and provide credible advice to managers at all levels.
- Excellent communication, attention to detail, and organisational skills.
- Good IT capability, including Microsoft Office, and ideally experience using iTrent HR software.
- CIPD qualification (or working towards it) is desirable.
- Willingness to travel to UK office locations as needed.
Your Team
The HR team consists of the HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment and Organisational Development, with specialists in Learning and Development, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing and Sustainability. Making sure everyone thrives during their time at TLT is the focus of our HR team’s work every day. We provide strategic and operational support to our leaders and teams and our HR specialists make sure our people are skilled, creative, valued, motivated, flexible and committed, working in a culture that enables them to perform at their very best.
The HR Business Partner team consists of Senior HR Business Partners, HR Business Partners, HR Advisors and a HR Operations team.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com
