Job Description

HR Advisor

Location: Southampton (occasional travel across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset where required for HR cases)

Employment Full-time

Hybrid Minimum of 50% working hours to be spent in the office

Hours Per Week 37.5 hours per week

Salary £32,000 – £34,000 per annum, depending upon experience

Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career.

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About the role

PBS4 is looking for a highly motivated HR Advisor who wants to make this role their own, whilst delivering excellent support to the HR Team and the wider business. Previous experience working in Human Resources and a Level 3 qualification is essential.

You will need to be an effective and engaging communicator who is able to liaise with all levels of internal and external stakeholders. You will need to be professional, well organised and able to multitask when under pressure. Your IT skills will need to be of a high level, along with your written and verbal English. PBS4 is looking for someone who enjoys getting involved but can also concentrate on their own tasks and priorities.

The HR Advisor will work as part of the HR Team supporting the Enablement Managers and their teams. In addition, they will have delegated HR responsibility for other areas of the business e.g., Finance, Clinicians, Head Office etc. As PBS4 is an organisation who works with people with neurodisablilities, the people PBS4 support do visit the office, and therefore an understanding of neorudisability would be beneficial but full training will be provided.

The HR Advisor will ensure effective first line HR support providing expert advice across the full employee lifecycle (from post onboarding to exit) within Company policies and procedures, ensuring managers comply with all legal requirements and make fair and equitable decisions.

The HR Advisor will be expected to travel and respond verbally, in writing and on a face-to-face basis in a timely manner.

The role is essential in implementing HR workstreams within the designated areas and will contribute to HR projects as specified by the HR Business Partner.

Person Specifications

• CIPD Level 3 Foundation certificate in HR/People Practice

• Experience of working in a fast-paced high turnover environment managing an employee

relations caseload, across multiple locations

• HR support background

• Experience of managing policy updates

• Experience of working as part of a busy HR team

• Experience of providing HR advice in a timely manner with competing demands across

contracts of employment/absence/performance/discipline/grievance cases

• Analysis of HR data & production of statistical data

• Experience of working in a Health & Social Care organization

• Experience of using HR systems

• Production of HR reports

Why work for us?

• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued

• Have support from an experienced HR Business Partner and wider senior management team

• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

• Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1-year anniversary with PBS4., in-house paid induction training followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme and access to various other benefits through our Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium-sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 400 employees and rapidly growing.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

Be the change!

People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. If you are passionate about HR and coaching others in order to ensure the people we support to achieve the life they deserve, then a career with PBS4 is the career for you.

We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!