Job Title: HR Consultant

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire; hybrid working

Salary: Up to £57,000 per annum

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

Beststart HR supports businesses spanning the country with all their HR needs specifically tailored to their business and industry. We predominantly work with companies with 30-250 employees across a wide range of industries.

HR consultancy offers the ideal environment to continue to develop and master the full range of human resources skills. Unlike in-house HR roles, the array of client challenges from many different industries regularly draws on and continues to hone skills and experience across the full range of HR disciplines. Consequently, experience of challenging and diverse situations is built up at a quicker pace.

Beststart is a welcoming and hardworking team of professionals. Our Consultants and Administrators have the drive to provide the best and often innovative HR solutions. We realise our workplace is fast paced, requiring passion, dedication and energy. We are serious about our team's welfare and, so, in addition to competitive salaries, benefits and their 28-day statutory holiday entitlement, all Beststart employees receive up to a further 11 Wellbeing Days to enjoy off work, which covers our Christmas closure and ensures the team have one long weekend every month.

The Role:

Beststart is looking for more than one individual to take on the challenge of becoming a top HR professional who commands knowledge of the breadth of HR disciplines. The role involves continued development of your expertise. Our consultants handle challenging employee relations cases and help organisations in different industries, both at 'hands on' and strategic levels, to realise that employment law is not a barrier when implemented with a commercial mindset.

The variety of work keeps HR interesting and fresh for our consultants. We understand how being a senior HR professional can sometimes feel isolated but working alongside like-minded colleagues, who are only too willing to share their knowledge and expertise, makes our working experience collegiate, invigorating and fun!

Beststart provides mentoring and training to increase its consultants' strengths across the HR disciplines with a clear career framework all the way to Senior HR Consultant.

Our HR Consultants work from our modern office in Stevenage, their homes and on our client sites. We have a hybrid working pattern; however, being flexible and able to work across all these locations is essential to enable us to keep our team dynamics. The travel to client premises may involve regular commuting to locations that are usually within 1.5 hours of Stevenage but may, from time to time and for the limited period of a particular project, be further afield or include overnight stays.

The Candidate:

We would consider candidates who genuinely demonstrate that they have the solid, commercial HR skills to embark on the journey to become a top-class HR Consultant.

The successful candidates will:

• Be affable and enjoy developing solid, professional relationships with both colleagues and clients.
• Possess an obvious, positive attitude, getting excited about new clients, new work and new challenges.
• Be open to ideas, trying new approaches and being pushed outside their own comfort zone.
• Be passionate about their work and confident in the value of what they do for a business.
• Understand the importance of legal parameters, best practices and their implications but can offer unconventional solutions when the situation requires.
• Possess good time management skills.
• Be confident with technology and competent using Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent and have good academic grades.
• Possess relevant HR qualifications e.g. CIPD level 5 and/or 7.
• Hold a UK driving licence and own a car suitable for business travel (client travel expenses are reimbursed).

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus
• 28 days holiday
• Up to 11 Wellbeing Days
• Financial support for professional study of the CIPD and other related qualifications

We should not forget to give a mention to our big, friendly dog, 'DJ', who comes to the office most days!

Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa's at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Group Human Resource Manager, HR Generalist, Group HR Manager, Senior HR Manager, Senior Human Resources Advisor, Human Resources Generalist, HR Specialist, Employee Relations Specialist, Senior Employee Relations Advisor, People and Culture Manager, People Manger, People Operations, Employee Relations Manager, HR Business Partner, Senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, HR Director may also be considered for this role.