Job Overview
Location: Swansea
Contract: Fixed Term – 12 Months (Maternity Cover)
Reports to: Head of People
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced and approachable People & Culture Advisor to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover.
Working closely with the Head of People, you’ll play an important role in delivering a proactive and effective People & Culture service across the organisation. This is a varied, hands-on role covering the full employee lifecycle, including employee relations, recruitment and onboarding, HR administration, payroll support, employee engagement, compliance and Absence Management.
You’ll be a trusted point of contact for employees and managers, providing practical and consistent advice while helping us maintain an engaging, compliant and well-organised working environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Provide day-to-day People & Culture advice and guidance to employees and managers across a range of HR matters.
- Support and advise managers on employee relations matters, including absence, performance, conduct and other people-related issues.
- Support recruitment activity from vacancy approval and advertising through to interviews, offers and onboarding.
- Prepare and maintain accurate employee documentation, including contracts, offer letters and other employment correspondence.
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records within HR systems, ensuring compliance with GDPR and company policies.
- Support payroll processes by collating, checking and providing accurate employee and payroll information.
- Support employee onboarding, probation, changes to employment and offboarding activities.
- Contribute to employee engagement initiatives.
- Help ensure our people practices remain compliant with employment legislation, internal policies and procedures.
- Produce and maintain HR reports and people metrics, including headcount, turnover and other department KPIS.
- Support the review and development of People & Culture policies, processes and documentation.
- Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and employee experience.
- Support and contribute to wider People & Culture projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
About You
We’re looking for someone who is confident and experienced in working in a generalist People & Culture/HR environment and comfortable managing a varied workload.
You’ll ideally have:
- Previous experience in an HR Advisor or similar generalist HR role.
- Experience providing practical HR advice and guidance to managers and employees.
- Good working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Experience supporting employee relations matters.
- Experience of recruitment and onboarding processes.
- Strong HR administration skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience using HR systems and Microsoft Office.
- The ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the confidence to build effective relationships across the business.
- A proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with the wider team.
Desirable:
- CIPD qualification or working towards CIPD accreditation.
- Experience supporting payroll processes.
- Experience working within a regulated or fast-paced environment.
Why Join Us?
This is a great opportunity for an experienced People & Culture professional who enjoys a broad generalist role and wants to make a genuine contribution to the employee experience.
You’ll work closely with colleagues across the organisation, have exposure to a wide range of People & Culture activities and play an important role in supporting both our people and our managers during this 12-month maternity cover period.
Pay: £33,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Work Location: In person
