HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner
Full Time
Hybrid – Home/London Office (3 days minimum in office)
Reporting to: Head of HR
Salary: £45,000

The Company
Based in central London & Wellingborough operating throughout the UK and internationally, Food Alert is a leading food safety and health & safety consultancy. Our clients span many sectors including retail, leisure and education, but hospitality is where our expertise and passion lies. We work with some of the UK’s most innovative, exciting and high-profile restaurants, hotels and pub groups such as Brewdog, The Ivy Collection, Dishoom, Citizen M, and Harbour Hotels.

We are also part of The Citation Group whose portfolio of companies proudly deliver compliance support services to more than 45,000 clients. Our mission is to be the company that colleagues and clients want to work for and with.

The Role
Our whole reason for being is to attract, retain and develop great people. We know that you sustainably raise performance through engagement and that leadership and culture is key to this.

We’re looking for a HR generalist to play an integral role within Food Alert, whilst also being part of the wider divisional HR Team. You will be working closely with assigned areas of the business to deliver the People Plan and their basic HR needs as well as help them be their best. It’s a true generalist position!

As part of this role, you will:
• Work closely with the leaders and managers within Food Alert to deliver the people plan and key HR initiatives
• Provide HR support for all matters including; performance management, training and development, ER issues including: Grievances, disciplinaries, redundancy, long-term sick, disputes, colleague wellbeing including maternity/paternity
• Be responsible for understanding our people statistics to help us perform better
• Manage our reward and recognition programmes whilst also looking for ways we can develop in this area
• Be responsible for admin including starter, leavers, changes and payroll whilst ensuring we remain compliant
• Own the colleague engagement plan. Everything we do is aimed at protecting and building our high-performance culture and our great colleague engagement scores
• Lead internal communications for the business. It’s the voice of our culture, a glue that helps bind us and has never been more important
• Be involved in the development and delivery of internally learning and development programmes. We like to keep it relevant, quick and easy to access

The person
We’re not your everyday HR department and we’re not looking for your everyday HR person.
• It’s fast-paced and always changing so you need to be up for the challenge, always ready to adapt and get stuck in
• Agile with a growth mindset, you will really care about our business. You get that you are a role model for and a custodian of our culture and will always put your best self forward
• It’s all about the people in Food Alert so you’ll need to demonstrate a wide range of influencing and communication skills. With high emotional intelligence and sound commercial acumen, people will want to come to you, not just because of your expertise, but because you are a great person to work with
• We’re always growing and changing so you’ll need to demonstrate how you positively embrace change personally and drive change successfully within your business
• Whilst it’s all about the people we’re not pink and fluffy, you’ll need to demonstrate your commercial edge too
• We’ve got a coaching style with our managers, we work together to help find the best solutions so you’ll need to show us your coaching and problem-solving skills
• You’ll have experience of dealing with a range of ER issues
• You’re always learning and developing – you might not have all the answers yet and you’re willing to learn and give it a try
• We’re always looking for ways to improve our processes to create a better experience for colleagues so you’ll show initiative and come up with new ideas on how we can do this

Ideally, you’ll also have...
• CIPD level 5 or 7 or equivalent experience would be desirable
What will you get from us?
• Lots of support/exposure / on-the-job training & development
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 3 ‘gift days’ between Christmas and New Year
• Additional holiday enhancements (e.g. a week off if you get married, time off on the birth of a grandchild etc)
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme including face-to-face counselling sessions
• Healthcare cash plan incl discounted gym membership
• Life Assurance
• Referral bonuses and vouchers
• A fun, sociable team… and working in the hospitality industry we know how to throw a good party!

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