| Salary band | £45k - £60k |
|---|---|
| Salary details | 50K |
| Location | City |
| Job type | Permanent |
| Company | HYF human resources |
| Contact | PAUL KNIGHT |
| Specialisations | HR Manager |
| Posted | 20th Aug 2008 |
| Expires | 27th Aug 2008 |
My client, a medium sized UK Law Firm has enjoyed unprecedented growth over the last few years and is now looking to employ their first dedicated HR Manager to provide a proactive generalist HR service to the Firm, through positive HR policies and practices to maintain staff retention, morale, productivity, profitability, employee personal development and job satisfaction and to apply best practice and observe CIPD code of professional conduct.
Your main areas of responsibilities will be
People planning/Resourcing
- Prepare a people plan for the financial year
- Report on staff turnover
- Make recommendations regarding the most effective use of resources.
- Make recommendations to improve/change working practices.
- Manage the performance and career development of all trainee solicitors from their Legal Practice Course to qualification as a solicitor.
- Review the trainees individual performances in six-monthly reviews and developing performance standards and working to ensure that these are achieved by all.
- Oversee all trainee seat rotations twice a year, taking into account both the business requirements and each trainees career plan.
- Responsible for all aspects of secondments to Clients offices.
- Develop a positive employee relations policy.
- Discuss policies, procedures and benefits with members of staff and deal with any contractual problems or queries.
- Conduct and or accompany the staff partner at disciplinary and grievance meetings.
- Monitor attendance and sickness records and deal with potential problems.
- Advise and arrange for employees to visit an occupational health professional where appropriate.
- Conduct return to work interviews.
- Deal with maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
- Deal with applications for flexible working.
- Deal with all enquiries on compensation and benefits.
- Research salary information for annual reviews (inflationary and merit-based) for EXCO.
- Review the benefits package and make recommendations.
- Keep abreast of employment legislation and changes and formulate policies.
- Prepare training sessions and advise partners and departmental managers on policies and procedures and best practice.
- Apply the law in a practical way in dealing with members of staff.
- Complete quarterly updates to the staff handbook
- Take full responsibility for professional and support staff skills training, career and management development.
- Plan and run the skills training programmes for professional and support staff including managing continuous professional development (CPD).
- Identify training needs and make recommendations.
- Advise on and co-ordinate appraisal systems.
- Make recommendations to improve or develop appraisal systems.
- Undertake appraisals.
You will be an experienced legal HR professional, CIPD qualified with previous time spent in a decision-making role.
HYF Human Resources recruits into Legal, Financial Services, Media, Commerce and Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Management Consultancy, Accountancy, Architects, Insurance; Publishing, and FMCG
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