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Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.
Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.
As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we’re part of.
Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.
Looking to the future, we’re targeting ambitious growth and success. And we’re looking for the best people to be part of it.
Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, proactive and highly organised HR Advisor to join our HR team, on a full time and permanent basis. Applicants will ideally have HR experience in working with fee-earning professionals ideally within the legal sector.
This is a fantastic time to join Bevan Brittan’s HR team. The business is growing and there will be plenty of opportunity to make a difference for someone who is flexible, keen to learn, support and work collaboratively with colleagues across the entire employee life cycle.
The role will report to our Senior HR Business Partner (SHRBP) and will be based in our Bristol office. We work in a hybrid way across the firm and in line with the needs of the role, can offer a high level of flexibility in terms of how you want to split your working week.
The role

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the HR team to provide a high quality, proactive and solutions-focussed generalist HR service to the firm.
• Inputting data onto the firm’s HR database (AdvancedHR).
• Producing ad-hoc data reports from the HR database as required.
• Maintaining an efficient, accurate electronic filing and archiving system in compliance with GDPR.
• Updating the firm’s intranet and website.
• Coach, support and challenge managers in the application of HR policies and procedures, providing advice and guidance on a range of HR issues to drive best practice.
• Supporting and advising managers on a wide variety of HR and employee relations matters in a way that builds management capability. Acting as their first point of contact and demonstrating excellent knowledge of their teams.
• Developing strong and trusted relationships with managers to effectively support their departments.
• Together with more senior members of the HR team, identify and implement process improvements.
• Actively monitoring and analysing attendance, and coaching managers to manage attendance, including Occupational Health referrals. Identifying cases of potential concern with the team and managers.
• Managing and assisting with HR processes such as disciplinary and capability, providing appropriate support and advice and escalating to the wider HR team where necessary.
• Holding maternity meetings and managing maternity checklists. Supporting managers and the HR team on both strategic and cyclical projects. These include but are not limited to the performance review and pay review processes and implementation of a new HR system.
• Carrying out regular HR inductions and exit interviews.
• Assisting with queries that are sent to our HR inbox.
• Management of IT systems we use to support process across the firm such as business continuity (Everbridge). Full training on these will be provided.
• Working with others in the HR team to maintain systems and processes in line with best practice and employment law changes.
• Assist in project work for the Responsible Business Programme , which encompasses Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Wellbeing, Community Engagement and Environmental Sustainability.

What we are looking for from you

• CIPD qualified (or have equivalent experience) with experience of operating within a HR team , ideally within the legal sector or professional services environment
• Ability to build relationships across all levels of the business
• Experience of advising on core HR processes e.g. performance management, absence related queries
• Excellent planning, organisation and administration skills, able to prioritise and manage multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Team focused with a desire to work collaboratively to achieve shared goals and improve processes
• Up to date knowledge of current legislation, employment law and HR best practice.

Work with approachable people
When we ask colleagues what makes Bevan Brittan a great place to work, the most popular thing they say is “the people”. The overwhelming consensus is that we make time for each other. We welcome questions and support each other. Naturally, we look for new colleagues who align with our values.

• Work closely with the HR team to provide a high quality, proactive and solutions-focussed generalist HR service to the firm.
• Inputting data onto the firm’s HR database (AdvancedHR).
• Producing ad-hoc data reports from the HR database as required.
• Maintaining an efficient, accurate electronic filing and archiving system in compliance with GDPR.
• Updating the firm’s intranet and website.
• Coach, support and challenge managers in the application of HR policies and procedures, providing advice and guidance on a range of HR issues to drive best practice.
• Supporting and advising managers on a wide variety of HR and employee relations matters in a way that builds management capability. Acting as their first point of contact and demonstrating excellent knowledge of their teams.
• Developing strong and trusted relationships with managers to effectively support their departments.
• Together with more senior members of the HR team, identify and implement process improvements.
• Actively monitoring and analysing attendance, and coaching managers to manage attendance, including Occupational Health referrals. Identifying cases of potential concern with the team and managers.
• Managing and assisting with HR processes such as disciplinary and capability, providing appropriate support and advice and escalating to the wider HR team where necessary.
• Holding maternity meetings and managing maternity checklists. Supporting managers and the HR team on both strategic and cyclical projects. These include but are not limited to the performance review and pay review processes and implementation of a new HR system.
• Carrying out regular HR inductions and exit interviews.
• Assisting with queries that are sent to our HR inbox.
• Management of IT systems we use to support process across the firm such as business continuity (Everbridge). Full training on these will be provided.
• Working with others in the HR team to maintain systems and processes in line with best practice and employment law changes.
• Assist in project work for the Responsible Business Programme , which encompasses Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Wellbeing, Community Engagement and Environmental Sustainability