HR Manager

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a HR Manager to join our friendly Barwells team. This is a new role to the business which will be based in our Seaford office but will also involve travel to our other East Sussex based offices as required, of which there are currently seven in total.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Practice Director, you will support all of our legal and business support teams to:

• Provide timely support to employees of all levels covering a full range of HR issues.
• Manage the full employee lifecycle from recruitment and selection, employee onboarding, probation, contractual changes and leavers to ensure fully documented seamless processes in line with HR best practice.
• Manage all statutory HR requests and family friendly leave requests.
• Manage informal and formal employee relations processes including grievance, disciplinary, underperformance and sickness absence.
• Review and update Barwells’ HR policies and procedures in line with best practice and changes in legislation.
• Update and maintain contract of employment templates and documentation templates in line with changes in legislation.
• In collaboration with line managers, manage the annual employee appraisal process.
• In collaboration with finance and the Directors, manage the annual salary review process.
• Organise employee training and development for staff at all levels.
• Carry out anonymous staff engagement surveys as required and report your findings.
• Manage and update our HR database, People HR.
• Provide relevant data to Accounts for monthly payroll purposes.
• Line management responsibility for the receptionist team including proactively arrange staff cover for holidays and other absence as necessary.
• Line management responsibility for the Practice Support Assistant.
• Commit time to training and self-development.
• Report regularly to the Practice Director.

Candidate Requirements

Candidates must be qualified to CIPD level 5 or above and have prior experience at a similar level.

Full UK driving license and access to a car is essential.

We Can Offer You:

• Bonus schemes
• Health and well-being contribution
• 25+ days holiday plus birthdays off
• Employee discounts