People Advisor

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

This is an ideal opportunity if you are interested in working in a dynamic People team, as it offers a wide variety of HR advisory responsibilities, as well as the opportunity to be part of one of the most significant UK biomedical science projects in a generation.

The People advisory team is involved in a range of activities, including employee relations activity, annual performance and pay review, training and development including manager induction, management information, and policy and process improvement.

Reporting to a People Partner and working alongside People Advisors, you will support the team across the full range of this activity. Your work will help to deliver a proactive and flexible HR service by providing relevant and appropriate HR support to all employees and non-employees at the Crick, whilst driving best practice and ensuring compliance with Institute procedures, policies, and employment legislation.

Key Responsibilities

These include but are not limited to:

• Provide general HR support and advice covering all employee lifecycle activity to both employees and managers, working in partnership with People Coordinators where relevant
• Lead on employee relations matters to ensure that all casework is managed in a fair and transparent manner. This will include absence management, capability, disciplinaries, grievances, flexible working, restructures and redundancies
• Provide primary support and advice to hiring managers on recruitment activity, including salary benchmarking, interviewing and support with writing job descriptions
• Manage all queries on maternity leave and other family-friendly policies, including meeting with individuals and providing support and advice before, during and after periods of leave
• Review and development of policies and processes 
• Review and development monthly and ad-hoc MI reporting, working with the People Partner to create workforce plans based on relevant data

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL (University College London), Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• There is no closing date for this role
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

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