HR Advisor (Maternity Cover)

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. 

We are looking to recruit a HR Advisor to join our HR department.

You will support the HR Partner Team to provide a high-quality professional HR service to managers and staff across the School. Responsibilities will include, interpreting policies and procedures and legislative requirements, seeking advice where needed from HR colleagues and supporting the HR Partners with employee relations case work e.g. notetaking in formal meetings and ensuring minutes and other confidential correspondence are collated accurately and efficiently and supporting the preparation of formal investigations packs, grievance and disciplinary hearings.

You will provide support for HR project work and guidance and advice on a range of HR issues including contractual queries, employee relations cases and HR policies and procedures. You will also take on delegated responsibility for informal stages of employee relations cases. 

You should be CIPD qualified or working towards CIPD graduate level or have equivalent professional experience including up to date knowledge of employment law and its application. You must have experience of providing a proactive and responsive HR advice and effective problem solving on a wide range of issues with competing priorities, together with experience of supporting the implementation of new procedures and procedural updates. Further particulars are included in the job description. 

The post is full-time, 35 per week, 1 FTE and fixed term for up to one year as a maternity cover. 

The salary will be on the Professional Services salary scale, Grade 5 in the range £38,282 - £43,947 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London.

Applications should be made on-line via our jobs website. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. 

Interviews will take place on 2^nd September 2024

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable. 

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Further details: Job Description

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