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ER Meeting Lead

The Portfolio Group
Manchester Full-time GBP 34,500 – 34,500
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Portfolio are proud to be representing our client, a market leading professional services consultancy in their search for a HR / Employment Law Expert to conduct HR meetings on behalf of their clients. You will have experience in conducting HR meetings such as investigations, disciplinaries, decision making and issuing outcomes including warnings and dismissals. You will need a HR / CIPD Degree or strong experience in people management and chairing HR Meetings. Your role will be to support thousands of business owners ensuring compliance and legality, and a fair outcome for both employer and employee. Excellent communication is a must as you will assisting business owners across the country - 100,000 to be exact! This is an amazing opportunity for a HR Expert who enjoys conducting investigations, speaking with witnesses, holding meetings and decision making on a variety of issues across all sectors and industries. If you are looking for a new challenge, please apply today and we'll be in touch to discuss further!

Job Purpose

To deliver an expert HR service virtually via platforms such as Microsoft Teams in order to support our clients in dealing with formal meetings with their employees - conducting and advising on consultancy, capability, disciplinary, grievance and appeal issues as well as investigations and settlement negotiations.

Job Overview

We are looking for personable and confident HR professionals/employment lawyers with good technical skills who can respond to often short-notice assignments and produce thoughtful, legally compliant and well-written reports. The ability to act impartially, identify and quantify risk for our clients and communicate this to them effectively is crucial.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

  • Attend meetings with clients and their employees as arranged and diarised by an office-based paralegal and either conduct these or support the client to do so, as required.

  • To undertake mediation, conciliation and other employment relations services as may be requested by clients from time to time.

  • To provide clients with advice and guidance on their legal position with individual employees or groups of employees, with due regard to your duty of impartiality.

  • To provide prompt, high quality reports of outcomes within specified time frames and adhere to administrative procedures concerning file management.

  • Regularly achieve or exceed the hearing targets set by the Face2Face Management team.

  • Work towards the team objective of obtaining repeat business.

What you Bring to the Team
  • Educated to degree level in HR, law or related business discipline or with substantial professional experience

  • Background in HR management, consultancy or in employment law

  • Highly professional presentation, service focussed and personable; quickly able to form good working relationships with people who may be stressed, angry or upset.

  • A 'can do' approach to challenging situations and problem solving

BENEFITS
  • 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays

  • Day off on your birthday

  • Cash plan for you (and your children, if any)

  • Holidays increase after 2- and 5-years' service.

  • Contractual sick pay

  • Private medical insurance after 5 years' service

  • Pension Plan and Life Insurance

  • Pension plan contributions increase after 5- and 7-years' service

  • Holiday season bonus after 3 years' service

  • Profit Share Scheme

  • Season Ticket loan scheme

  • Cycle to work scheme AND Free on-site Gym

  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme

  • Modern offices in the City Centre, with excellent transport links and subsidised car parking if needed

  • Company incentives, access to discount schemes

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