HR Advisor - Cleshar Contract Services
(2022-12 - 2023-03)
Temporary role only
- Working as a HR Generalist
- Carrying out various project work
- Dealing with standard ER cases, disciplinary, grievance, investigation, capability etc
ER Advisor - Churchill
(2021-12 - 2022-11)
- Working on a case load of ER cases
- Carrying out various project work
- Acting as first point of contact for all ER cases though to solution
- Dealing with standard ER cases, redundancy, changes to T&C's, disciplinary, grievance, investigation, capability etc
Face2Face Consultant - Peninsula UK
(2021-09 - 2021-12)
Working at Peninsula UK, my duties include:
- Meeting clients
- Conducting hearings such as grievance, disciplinary, medical capability, welfare, settlement meetings
- Producing a comprehensive outcome report with my recommendations on each case
HR Advisor - Gist International
(2020-10 - 2021-05)
Currently working for Gist International, this is a true HR Generalist role, my duties include;
- Acting as the first point of contact for all HR issues
- Carrying out the full recruitment life cycle from advertising, interview & contract offer
- Training & coaching senior managers
- Carrying out the HR business inductions
- Facilitating the EU Settlement Scheme & transferring the relevant employees
- Actively driving employee retention & engagement by continuously improving processes
- Managing talent & succession planning
- Carrying out training of employees; Code of Ethics, Dignity @ Work, Investigations/ disciplinary etc.
- Updating policies & procedures
- Using SuccessFactors UK; Updating employee profiles, creating & completing monthly reports/ HR Metrics
- First point of contact for all ER issues and working through to successful resolution
- Carrying out monthly data validation checks to ensure all data held is current & accurate
ER Advisor - Bounty UK
(2020-02 - 2020-10)
Working for Bounty UK; this was an ER role supporting managers with cases through the full ER life cycle.
- Acting as first point of contact for all ER cases
- Responsibility for ad-hoc HR projects such as reviewing and updating company policies and procedures
- Guiding stakeholders through the investigation/ disciplinary/ performance/absence through training and support
- Providing managers with the skills/ working templates to hold complex ER meetings in line with best practice and relevant policy / procedure
- Keeping accurate records and maintaining ER log and updating HR systems
- Note taking for complex meetings, for additional support for line managers
- Tasked with managing and resolving existing and historical cases to reduce current caseload
Junior HR Business Partner - McKesson UK
(2017-10 - 2019-09)
This is a regional HR role supporting different business areas within the UK/ Scotland. This role focuses on primarily ER related issues and first line support to senior managers across the region. Supporting with the following:
- Supporting with various HR projects, company organisational restructures and consultations
- Dealing with general HR queries day to day
- Providing monthly HR metrics for senior managers
HR Advisor/ Manager - Priory Health care Group - Priory Hospital Hemel Hempstead
(2013-08 - 2017-10)
This is a stand-a-lone role, covering full Generalist HR duties. My responsibilities include:
- Acting as the first point of contact for all HR issues
- Training & coaching Senior Managers
- Co-ordinating the induction & training programme
- Facilitating monthly payroll
- Actively driving employee retention & engagement by continuously improving processes
- Managing talent & succession planning
- Managing disciplinary/ grievance processes
- Recruitment; advertising/ interviewing, producing contracts
- Leading on absence management, performance management & capability
- Ad-hoc Project work
- Managing personnel files and maintaining compliance in line with the relevant guidelines (Work permit/ Visa, DBS & registrations) and organising annual appraisal reviews
HR & Training Advisor - Cygnet Health Care - Cygnet Hospital Stevenage
(2009-03 - 2013-08)
At Cygnet I was employed as the first point of contact for all Human Resource matters within Cygnet Hospital Stevenage. We employed in excess of 170 permanent staff and hold a temporary staffing bank of 100+. My responsibilities include;
- Advising Senior Managers & Line Managers on all day to day HR issues including; Performance Management, ER, L & D, Recruitment & Selection processes
- Managing the HR Department
- Processing all CRB applications as Counter signatory
- Facilitating the recruitment life cycle; identifying staffing needs, producing job specs, advertising within the appropriate media, short listing, interviewing candidates and producing contracts of employment and organising induction programmes and ongoing L & D
- Conducting investigations
- Managing the implementation of new training projects, conducting training needs analysis
- Initiating corporate changes in policy
- Managing the induction process
- Dealing with redundancies and disciplinary & grievances
- Dealing with insurance issues
- Maintaining records of all personnel files, monitoring sickness and appraisals.
- Completing regular audits to ensure compliance is maintained
- Completed the workforce plan for Cygnet Hospital Stevenage, encompassing all supervisory support, training initiatives, personal development and staff retention methods to maintain a healthy workforce and working environment
- Facilitating all staff training
- Feedback at all management meetings including attending the bi-annual Board Meetings
Recruitment Consultant - Premiere People Limited
(2007-06 - 2009-03)
As a Recruitment Consultant my responsibilities included the following;
- Interviewing and assessing suitable candidates
- Building and maintaining client relationships
- Gaining and attending client visits to assess needs, also presenting for potential business
- Facilitating the recruitment process by arranging interviews, providing feedback and issuing terms of employment
- Creating job adverts, person specifications and job descriptions
- Advertised all jobs through a range of multimedia i.e. websites, newspapers, journals
- Administration: data entry, payroll, letter writing and creating presentations
Recruitment Field Sales Representative - Archant Ltd
(2004-07 - 2007-06)
I was employed as a Field Sales Representative for a leading national media organisation, for which I was part of a team responsible for the recruitment advertising in the North and South Herts editions. My duties involved;
- Actively seeking out new customers and converting them into clients
- Maintaining existing client relations
- Cold calling, telesales and competitor canvassing
- Booking adverts, providing and amending proofs
- Checking adverts to ensure compliance with the necessary legislation
