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About the Role
This is a busy, hands-on role supporting managers across a multi-site organisation, requiring someone who can quickly get up to speed and confidently manage a varied HR workload. Strong practical Workday knowledge and substantial Employee Relations experience are essential.
Responsibilities
- Provide pragmatic HR advice across the full employee lifecycle.
- Independently manage Employee Relations cases, including disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, absence, medical capability, and performance issues.
- Advise and coach managers on UK employment law, HR policies, and best practice.
- Support organizational change, consultations, workforce planning, and changes to organizational design.
- Act as a key Workday user, supporting managers and employees with day-to-day processes and troubleshooting system issues.
- Manage employee lifecycle activity within Workday, including contractual changes, working patterns, probation outcomes, and leavers.
- Help managers use Workday accurately and confidently, providing guidance and training.
- Support performance management, probation, and employee development.
- Draft, review, and embed HR policies and supporting documentation.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and pre-employment processes.
- Use HR data and reporting to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Support employee engagement and wellbeing initiatives.
- Work with managers across locations, building strong relationships and providing practical, commercially focused HR support.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on Workday HRIS experience is essential.
- Significant experience independently managing high-volume Employee Relations casework is essential.
- Strong experience at HR Advisor or Senior HR Advisor level, ideally supporting multiple locations.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Confidence advising and coaching managers through challenging and sensitive people matters.
- Experience supporting disciplinary, grievance, investigation, absence, capability, and performance processes.
- Experience of drafting, updating, and embedding HR policies and processes.
- Strong systems skills and excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment with competing demands.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to influence at different levels.
- Full driving licence and access to own car.
- Must be able to work a minimum of 2 days per week on site across retirement villages and/or London office.
Skills
- Workday HRIS
- Employee Relations
- UK employment law
- HR policies
- HR best practice
- Systems skills
- Attention to detail
- Prioritization
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Influencing
Location
- Retirement villages
- London office
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full time
- 12 month fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Senior HR Advisor
- HR Advisor
Education Level
- CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent (highly desirable)
About the Company
- At Retirement Villages Group, we want people to have choices that allow them to stay independent, healthy and connected for longer.
- We support our communities to retain their individuality, diversity and spirit, helping people make a positive choice about how they want to live.