HR Adviser - #724002

JOB SPECIFICATION

Reports to: People & Culture Director

Contract: Permanent

Based: Glasgow HQ, with occasional travel to regional offices (St Albans and Altrincham)

Salary: Up to £35k (dependant on experience)

Flexible working: There may be flexibility in working hours following successful completion of probation period and business needs.

About Prime Secure

We are an award-winning, privately-owned, Glasgow-headquartered business providing security system and guarding services to our blue-chip customer base across the UK. This role is based at our Glasgow HQ, with occasional travel required to our regional offices in St Albans, Hertfordshire and Altrincham, Cheshire.

We are growing quickly and have ambitious plans to achieve a turnover of £50m per annum by 2030. We embrace new ideas and change and value everyone’s input into how we continue to thrive and grow.

About The Role

We are looking to grow our existing HR team to support our ambitious growth plans of the business. At Prime Secure our people are central to our success and therefore as a member of our People & Culture Department you’ll be critical to our ongoing success and ensuring our people are able to thrive.

You will deliver guidance, support and advice in relation to the full employee life cycle to create an employee experience which is aligned to our people and culture strategy, our core values and our strategic goals. At Prime Secure we believe the foundation of success is built on having the right people in the right role performing to the best of their ability. This is achieved through having an effective culture within which people are supported, encouraged and given the opportunity to thrive and achieve their potential. You will be critical to our ongoing success by ensuring that we provide the right tools, environment and development opportunities for everyone to succeed.

We are growing quickly, targeting 30% growth this year alone and have a vision to achieve £50m turnover per annum by the year 2030. You will be key to developing our people policies and practices to help realise this vision, supporting our core values as we grow.

Our core values:

• Integrity
• Customer Excellence
• Plain-Speaking
• Agility
• Courage & Conviction.
  
  

Who You Are

• You are an enthusiastic HR professional with a passion for employee engagement, driving performance and resolving employee relations matters
• You promote a collaborative, positive working style with an ability to influence and persuade others
• You have strong generalist HR knowledge
• Excellent employment law knowledge with experience of TUPE
• You demonstrate a positive proactive can-do attitude
• You have experience in creating and developing people policies and practices
• You have strong interpersonal skills and excel at building effective relationships
• Confident and articulate when working with our teams and heads of department
• Exhibit effective prioritisation and organisation skills.
  
  

Your performance will be driven by a mindset built on:

• Caring deeply about people and how we attract, develop and retain them
• Supporting and advising line managers
• Being business-minded and commercially aware
• Having the ability to multi-task to effectively deliver results
• Having a pragmatic approach to conflict resolution
• Making astute decisions
• Striving for excellence in all you do
• Being adaptable and flexible
• Courage of your convictions to do the right thing.
  
  

You will be part of a dynamic team that supports the business on people and culture activities related to performance, talent and reward. You will also guide and coach people managers in the effective management of their people, including performance concerns, absence and investigation and disciplinary cases.

Membership of a relevant professional body i.e. CIPD (or a willingness to achieve) is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

As HR Adviser, you’re ultimately accountable for supporting the People and Culture strategy which will drive us towards our strategic vision of achieving £50m turnover per annum by the year 2030.

As such, we see the key responsibilities of the role as being:

• Supporting the delivery of our People & Culture strategy
• Responsibility for successful implementation of our people policies and processes, employee engagement and performance
• Ensure our people processes keep pace with our growth to ensure legal compliance and best practice
• Providing guidance and support on key people issues
• Realising opportunities to grow and develop employees
• Responding to employee queries providing guidance and advice
• Support the business to attract, retain and develop key talent
• Preparation, monitoring and reporting of HR KPI’s
• Delivering HR activity including performance management, talent management, succession planning, pay and bonus, absence monitoring and employee engagement initiatives.
  
  

The five strands of our People & Culture strategy you will contribute towards are:

• Achieve - managing performance
• Attract - recruitment & retention
• Award - reward & recognition
• Accountability - engaging staff and deliver our vision
• Assure - HR process & compliance.
  
  

TEAM REPORTING & STRUCTURE

Reporting to the People & Culture Director with opportunity develop internally as the company grows. The current team of six staff provides support to approximately 200 employees across the business.