HR Advisor

at  Scottish Forestry

JOB SUMMARY

The Scottish Forestry (SF) People Team is a newly established part of the wider Transformation and Corporate Services team within the Agency. The team comprises the Head of People (HR and L&SD), HR Business Partner, HR Advisor (this role), Learning and Skills Development Manager, Learning and Skills Development Officer and an Administrative Support Assistant.
The People Team provide a professional, responsive HR Service which understands the Agency’s ambitions and supports innovation, a culture of continuous improvement and partnership working.
The People Team works closely with colleagues in our sister Agency Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). Elements of People Services including Payroll, HR Systems, Resourcing, Health, Safety and Wellbeing and Technical Forestry Learning and Development are provided by FLS via a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
The SF People Team are responsible for providing a professional HR Operational Service. In addition we will work on areas of Policy Development and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to support to the Agency achieve its Corporate objectives. The HR Advisor will work across the Agency and liaise closely with colleagues in the People Team, FLS.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will provide great customer service through working in partnership with colleagues located across Scotland on all people management matters. This is a truly generalist role which requires the ability to work flexibly across a broad HR remit. You will work closely with the HR Business Partner to provide generalist people management advice and support to managers and staff in relation to resourcing, terms and conditions of employment, including performance management, support referrals to Occupational Health and the analysis of staffing Management Information.
You will also support in areas such as the initial stages of the recruitment cycle and a range of organisational change projects in conjunction with the HR Business Partner. Your engagement with managers and employees is an essential part of the role and you will have regular ad hoc meetings with various stakeholders. To help with this, you’ll work alongside the HR Business Partner to produce and present statistical reports that analyse several workforce metrics. You will also work collaboratively with the other functions within the SF and FLS People Teams.
SF comprises five geographically based Conservancies; Highlands and Islands based in Dingwall, Grampian based in Huntly, Perth and Argyll base in Perth, Central based in Hamilton and South based in Dumfries and Selkirk. In addition SF has a Head Office which is based in Edinburgh. The Agency employs around 240 colleagues. The HR Advisor will work with colleagues based in all geographical locations.
This role is a key part of the business area and you will need to have the ability to travel to across Scotland (some overnight stays will be needed too).

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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