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Assistant HR Advisor

My client, a public sector organisation, is seeking an experienced HR generalist to provide support during an exciting period of change to their challenging HR function. It is envisaged that this role may span until the end of March 2009. Reporting into the HR Advisor and based in North Yorkshire. This is a great role for an immediately available HR Officer or HR Advisor with an operational focus and trade union experience.

The role is a fully generalist role covering high volume case loads and has a strong Employee Relations focus. Key duties of the role include:

*Providing effective advice and guidance to line managers and key players in the organisation on HR management issues including, policy and procedure and best practice.
*Liaising with Trade Unions and staff in terms of current changes, to employees' terms and conditions.
*Ensuring that new staff and management are compliant with new HR policy and procedures.
*Recruitment and Selection
*Maintaining and updating personnel records and HR systems information and monitoring and reviewing staff performance where appropriate.
*Supporting with ad-hoc project work as required and providing input and ideas in terms of HR strategy with a view to continuous improvement.

To be considered for this role you must:

*Be Immediately Available
*Have experience in operational HR generalist duties including: Employee relations and advising on policy, procedure and best practice methods in an oftentimes challenging environment.
*Be CPP, CIPD qualified (or equivalent) or working towards this.
*Have a good knowledge of employment law and it's use in a practical context.
*Have a high level of negotiating skills gained within a HR environment ideally with Union exposure.
*Be adept at influencing, persuading and challenging when dealing with managers, staff and trade unions.
*Have excellent communication skills on both a written a verbal medium.
*Posses strong IT skills (particularly Excel) and have experience of using HR systems and processes as manipulation of data will form a key part of this role.
*Have the ability to manage heavy workloads and to multi-task and effectively manage conflicting priorities.

Ashley Kate Associates, a division of the Ashley Kate Associates Group, is a leading HR recruitment consultancy, focusing on the recruitment of junior and middle level HR professionals. Our teams of specialist HR recruitment consultants combined with our integrated office network provide tailored solutions for the recruitment of permanent and interim HR professionals. We give equal priority to our candidate and client relationships to deliver a professional consultancy service.

The Ashley Kate Associates Group is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity. The Ashley Kate Associates Group is committed to the fair and equal treatment of potential and existing employees, candidates and clients irrespective of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, ex-offending background or any other potentially discriminating factor.

The Ashley Kate Associates Group operates as a Recruitment Agency for the provision of permanent candidates and as a Recruitment Business for the provision of temporary candidates.