People Operations Advisor

We're looking for a People Operations Advisor to join our People Team on a fixed term basis. This is a great opportunity to work with a wide range of colleagues across the Charity and get to see firsthand the work carried out, to create a world where no man dies from prostate cancer.

You'll work with managers and Heads of departments to help successfully manage, develop and retain the best people to deliver our ambitious strategic objectives. You'll provide operational HR advice and guidance, working collaboratively to support our colleagues and management teams through a range employee life cycle activities as well as employee relations cases such probation, absence, conduct, capability, performance including flexible working.

Working with the People Partner and Operations Manager, you'll evaluate each situation that arises using a tiered approach to case management, escalating higher tiered or complex cases to them and/or the wider People Partner team.

As a People Operations Advisor your role will support embedding good people practices across all of our directorates. Proactively contributing to the development and delivery of our planned HR programmes, including the creating and improvement of policies, procedures and guidance to ensure alignment with employment legislation and our organisational culture, values and ways of working.

You'll contribute to the inputting and accuracy of People Data into the HRIS system, preparing and collating HR metrics and trend information for the People Partners for business reporting.

We're looking for a people focused, self-motivated, HR professional, who is experienced in building effective relationships with their team, managers, and employees; comfortable in providing guidance and support employee relations issues. You'll be CIPD qualified (level 5 of studying towards this) or with experience working at this level.

You'll have strong people skills and integrity, be able to communicate well with others and quickly build credibility. You'll have excellent attention to detail and experience of administering and maintaining accurate records and dealing with contracts and contract changes. You may be required to support in facilitating HR training sessions and workshops.

You'll be able to demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, an in-depth knowledge of best practice and employment law alongside a good understanding of GDPR and how they relate to communicating, storing and processing employee data., Please address the core/essential skills, experience and competencies required using real examples where possible and tell us in what ways you are a good match for the role.

This provides you with a great opportunity to showcase your knowledge, skills and experiences with the most important aspects of this role which will be used in reviewing and shortlisting applications:

+ CIPD level 5 and/or equivalent proven experience of working in a HR role
+ Experience in advising, supporting and coaching our people managers to deal with a range of low-risk employee relations matters
+ Involvement of improving policies, guidance and processes in line with legislation and our charity's values and culture.
+ Experience of administering and maintaining accurate HR records, contracts and contract changes

Prostate Cancer UK is the largest men's health charity in the UK. We have a simple ambition - to stop prostate cancer damaging lives. We invest millions in research to revolutionise testing, treatment and care. We're blazing a trail to a screening programme that could save thousands of lives with regular, accurate tests for all men at risk. And we work tirelessly to spread the word about risk and offer specialist support to people living with the disease.

Work with us and you'll see your efforts pay off as we give men and their families the power to navigate prostate cancer.

What we offer

Join our team and be part of an award-winning charity. We'll support you to develop your skills and expertise.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

+ Generous leave entitlements that increase with service
+ One 'development day' a month to use for training or personal development
+ Enhanced contributory pension scheme
+ Life insurance and group income protection
+ Health Cash Plan
+ Life and wellbeing advice and support via our Employee Assistance Programme
+ Discounted gym membership and high street shopping discounts
+ Loans for season tickets or cycles

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

At Prostate Cancer UK, we believe that equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to building a strong and innovative workplace, that represents and can advocate for the communities we support. We stand against discrimination and prejudice, and we champion tolerance, fairness and equality in everything we do. This makes us stronger and helps us reach more people. We're all here for the same reason: to give every man the power to navigate prostate cancer.

We're committed to righting health inequalities across the UK, starting with those faced by Black men who are at double risk. This includes ground-breaking research into Black men's risk and working with communities directly to overcome barriers to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

Therefore, we're particularly interested in applications from those from marginalised and vulnerable communities. This will help us create an environment of inclusion where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, where personal qualities are as important as professional experience, and our people feel seen and heard.

Our people networks

We're continuously learning more about the needs of our colleagues, and have three amazing People Networks, sponsored by our Leadership team:

+ Pride - A safe space where LGBTQ+ colleagues - and our allies - can share their diverse lived experiences, celebrate LGBTQ+ culture and history, and create new ideas about how our organisation can be more inclusive and representative of LGBTQ+ people
+ Mind & Body - Here to increase awareness, promote wellbeing and support colleagues affected by neurodiversity, mental health problems, disability and long-term illness
+ Multicultural - Here to increase awareness and celebrate the different cultures and beliefs that we have in the organisation, so that we all have our cultures felt and feel welcomed

Wellbeing and hybrid working

Our hybrid working approach combines the best of flexible working - a positive work/life balance, inclusive and accessible platforms, and online information at our fingertips. We understand that everyone has different needs, and we strive to create opportunities for relationship building, collaboration and social time.

Each of our teams has a team agreement outlining when and how often we're expected to be in our London Bridge office. We're very welcome to work there more frequently. Office time is a commute, so we pay our own travel costs.

For this role, we would expect the successful candidate to be coming into the London office 2- 4 days per month.