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Senior HR Advisor
Telford, United KingdomJob Description
Job Title: SeniorHR Advisor
Department: HR Partnering & Advisory
Reporting to: SeniorHR Business Partner
Location: Telford, TF3 4NT
We are looking for a Senior HR Advisor to join our team in Telford. This is a full-time, hybrid role, working 35 hours per week (2-3 days in office per week).
You'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in your dedicated location, supporting the team through a period of change and supporting business initiatives. This is a hands on role requiring focus on employee relations activities.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
HR Service Delivery
In this key aspect of the role, you will:
- Be responsible for the delivery of a customer-focused high quality and effective HR Advisory Service from start to finish (to a successful resolution), ensuring behaviours are in line with the employee value proposition, and risks to the business are minimised.
- Coach and mentor HR Advisors on complex/sensitive employee relations and/or take the lead on cases once they escalate beyond their role scope, along with providing cover for the HR Advisory team at other locations as and when required.
- Influence and coach managers on complex/sensitive employee relations, whistleblowing, and employment tribunal cases from start to finish - identifying the root cause and solving for the immediate, but also for the future, seeking guidance from the wider HR Team as required to ensure the business operates in a safe, fair, and equitable manner.
Stakeholder Management
You will support the HRBP team by working with your identified stakeholders to:
- Proactively build and maintain strong professional and effective working relationships to ensure the business has the appropriate level of support to deliver a seamless and first-class employee experience that drives performance.
- Support organisational design activities such as job evaluation and salary benchmarking, restructures, redundancies, acquisitions, TUPE initiatives.
- Ensure performance conversations, promotions, reward and recognition, talent and succession planning initiatives happen across the business.
- Support the calibration and moderation processes across the business to ensure consistency and fairness; coaching managers to ensure structured feedback on performance is given to their teams through the performance review processes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to review engagement survey results, identify focus areas and create and implement local action plans to address improvement areas.
- Support implementation and adoption of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Wellbeing initiatives within Cabot Group, including signposting colleagues and managers.
Knowledge & Experience
You will require:
- Extensive HR generalist experience in providing advice and solutions independently through a commercial lens.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to challenge, influence and direct the business confidently, as well as being able to adapt to different styles and surroundings demonstrating variety and agility of thought.
- Experience of developing and supporting organisational change programmes.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft-based applications (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- CIPD Level 5 qualified - working towards or equivalent working experience.
You will be able to:
- Work with curiosity to appropriately question, influence and advise to ensure the business assesses and understands the impacts of decisions on people.
- Thrive in a complex work environment, thinking on your feet with a pragmatic approach.
- Work with high self-direction and flexibility, especially with respect to taking initiative, prioritising multiple tasks, and using good judgment to resolve problems.
About us:
Wescot Credit Services is a Contact Centre working with several large UK banks, as well as Credit Card Providers, Energy, Telecoms and others to help recover debts owed to them by their customers.
Our team here at Wescot Credit Services have done some amazing initiatives this year all in aid of improving our well-being. We understand the importance of feeling valued and taking time away from our every day-to-day role to feel our best. Some of our events included a Summer Party, Christmas Party, team events and outings, alongside lots of fun in our vibrant Telford office. We are also passionate about supporting our local community.
If this sounds like a company that you would like to be part of, to deliver our mission for 2026 and beyond, please apply and start your next chapter with us!
**At Wescot we’re regulated by our clients - as such, any successful candidates will have to undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check.
Please note that we’re unable to proceed to interview stage if a CCJ, IVA or Bankruptcy appears on a credit file, or if you do not have full right to work in the UK.
Helping each and every customer to financial recovery
Here at Wescot we work for a number of organisations in the UK, including all of the large banks, as well as Credit Card Providers, Energy, Telecoms etc. Organisations trust us to recover debts owed to them by their customers. We continously invest in our people to deliver high service standards to support you. Wescot will work with customers to identify affordable and sustainable repayment arrangements which are based on your individual circumstances.
Our Total Rewards Package for All Round Wellbeing
We understand the importance of the balance between work and life, between fun and professionalism, and between being a corporation and being a community. That’s why we provide compensation structures and benefit plans tailored to each of our global hubs, and then enhance them with a wide range of programs that support your personal and professional growth. It’s our way of showing you that we recognize your value, understand what’s important to you, and want to reward your contributions.
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Holistic Wellness
Colleague Wellness - We're focused on your wellbeing and that means supporting you across all elements of it. This comes from our company sponsored team building events, on site events to form bonds with colleagues, Mental Health First Aid support, Webinars, Employee Assistance Program and more!
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Healthcare
Healthcare - Take advantage of our healthcare options to help you stay well... Gym discounts, Eye Tests and discount offers on glasses, our Employee Assistance Programme and more.
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Perks
Perks - Our Colleague Discount Programme includes Transport, Retail discounts and much more.
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Career Path & Development
Career Progression comes from the fact we invest in our people's skills and ability. We support your individual development, offering regular training to ensure you have the best tools and knowledge for the job. We want to help you be ready for your next career move with us.
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Awards & Recognition
Awards & Recognition - We will always recognise our people's contribution to what we achieve every day. That might be an informal on the spot reward or thank you or part of the formal awards and recognition we run throughout the year such as star of the month and our global President's Club.
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Pay & Bonuses
Pay & Bonuses - Earn a competitive salary, with the opportunity to participate in fun team building incentives!
Our Values In Action
At Cabot, we care about making a meaningful impact on our people, our customers, and our communities. We believe diversity in all its forms brings different thinking styles and perspectives. That builds our creativity and ability to find a better way. It also enables us to understand the different communities that make up our society. The more we understand, the easier it is to deliver the right outcomes for our customers.
Inclusive Workplace
We are striving to be an inclusive and progressive organisation where everyone feels comfortable and enabled to be themselves at work. We value the diversity of thought that different backgrounds and cultures can bring as it makes us stronger. The more we understand each other, the easier it is to deliver the right outcomes for our consumers and to support each other. Prioritising inclusion and belonging improves collaboration and enhances people’s wellbeing; both of which are essential parts of supporting our colleagues, and in turn our business, to succeed.
Giving Back To Our Community
We give back by volunteering, and charity work, trying to make a positive impact on the communities, where we live and work and we are proud to do so.
Wescot is a great place to work. I love being in a place where you can see the positive impact you have on colleagues, clients, and customers. Everyone is given equal opportunities to have their ideas considered which helps to foster an inclusive and evolving working environment.
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