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HR Officer and a Multinational Law firm - to £40k

  

This global law firm are looking for an HR Officer to working in one of their leading client groups. Duties will include:-

• Counselling staff and dealing with queries - ensuring appropriate confidentiality at all times
• Attend regular meetings with the GMs to discuss current issues and problems
• Monitor sickness absence and conduct absence meetings where appropriate
• Responsibility for the maternity process, ensuring staff are given correct counselling and information. Instruct payroll accordingly and liaise with practice groups on the effects on manpower planning.
• Advise staff on all career and flexible working policies and procedures
• Manage the grievance or disciplinary procedures for support staff
• Undertake exit interviews and follow-up on any required action
• Monitor under-performance amongst support staff and junior associates and take action as necessary
• Keep up to date file notes for all employee relations issues
• Co-ordinate and manage the practice's performance review process for support staff
• Work closely with GMs to moderate and monitor standards of performance review meetings and ratings across the different practice groups
• Coach Managers and fee-earners in how to deliver messages
• Co-ordinate performance review training
• Ensure review periods are diarised and organise any further training requirements (monitor relevant performance issues)
• Responsibility for the practice's probationary review process (with support from the HRM as appropriate)
• Assist HRM with the management of the fee-earner performance review process
• Work closely with the HRM in producing a manpower plan for the individual practice groups and monitor headcount control closely
• Keep up to date with all staff movements (leavers, joiners, secondments etc)
• Monitor and, with the HRM, approve costs incurred by line amnagers (such as temp staff, overtime etc)
• Ensure appropriate records/files and computerised data are kept up-to-date for all staff under remit
• Ensuring accurate production of monthly HRMI
• Overall responsibility for international secondments (with support from HRM)
• Management of the newly qualified (NQ) associate hire process
• Responsibility for trainees within client group (in partnership with the Trainee HR team), including monitoring trainee numbers and trainee feedback
• Liaise with GMs to determine appropriate LPA recruitment process and attend assessment centres and interviews where necessary.
• Oversee paralegal resourcing and recruitment.
• Monitor relationships and service levels with PSL agencies
• Monitor and update Banking job vacancies on the intranet
• Provide salary or employment law advice where necessary
• Organise temporary cover where necessary.
• Work alongside the HRM on the recruitment process for associates including liaison with recruitment agencies, sifting CVs and organising adverts as appropriate.

For more information please call Paul Knight on (phone number removed) or email (email address removed)

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