HR Advisor
This is a Full Time/Flexible Working, Permanent vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
✨ HR Advisor
📍WPS – Finsbury Park
We’re looking for a confident and experienced HR Advisor to join our WPS business based in Finsbury Park. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys a mix of employee relations work, coaching managers, and supporting consistent HR practice across a fast‑paced, people‑focused environment. 🌟
🌟 What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll play a key role in supporting our managers and teams through a wide range of HR activity, including:
🔧 Developing and rolling out HR policies – supporting updates, communication briefs and training.
🔄 Supporting HR projects including TUPE, restructures and wider change activity.
🤝 Partnering with managers to embed strong, consistent HR practice.
🎓 Coaching and upskilling managers and HR colleagues to confidently apply HR processes.
🛡 Advising on complex ER cases including disciplinary, grievance, bullying & harassment, performance, absence, redundancy and redeployment.
👩⚖️ Providing hearing support for disciplinary, grievance, capability and appeals.
📚 Staying up to date with employment law and WPS policy requirements.
⚖️ Working with external legal and occupational health partners to ensure full utilisation of services.
📝 Preparing senior hire contracts and ensuring HR systems remain accurate and up-to-date.
📊 Producing HR reports and maintaining ER case tracking.
🔒 Maintaining strict confidentiality and data protection compliance.
🚀 Owning your own professional development and staying current in HR best practice.
💡 About You
You’ll bring:
📘 Strong, current knowledge of employment law and HR best practice
🤝 Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills
🧭 Confidence in advising managers at all levels
🖊 Experience drafting outcome letters and supporting hearings
🔄 A proactive, improvement‑focused mindset
🔐 High integrity and discretion in handling sensitive information
🔍 Pre‑Employment Checks
This role requires a Basic DBS check at offer stage. Previous convictions will be reviewed individually — we do not discriminate based on criminal history. Some roles may be subject to additional pre‑employment checks depending on business requirements.
If you’re ready to bring your HR expertise to a supportive and dynamic WPS team, we’d love to hear from you! Once you apply, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps. 💬✨
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
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