People & Culture Advisor

Portfolio HR & Reward are supporting a thriving business in Knutsford, seeking a People & Culture Advisor to join them on a temporary basis until January 2027!

The role is offering a pay of up to 153 per day (PAYE) / 200 per day via umbrella

Reporting in to the Director of People & Culture, the main duties of the role include;

• Provide commercially-focused guidance to managers on employee relations matters, including conduct, capability, grievances, and flexible working arrangements.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with people managers to ensure compliant HR practices.
• Coach and upskill line managers on conducting investigations, disciplinary hearings, and Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
• Manage the end-to-end process for statutory and company leave entitlements (maternity, paternity, parental, emergency) and flexible working requests, ensuring policy compliance, accurate documentation, and timely payroll notification.
• Manage complex Long-Term Sickness (LTS) and Occupational Health cases, acting as the primary liaison between employees, line managers, Health & Safety, Centres of Excellence (CoEs), and external partners 1 .
• Advise and coach line managers on handling persistent short-term and complex long-term absence cases to ensure compliance and support employee return-to-work 2 .
• Analyse monthly absence reports to identify trends, communicating insights to leadership and driving action plans to improve team attendance rates

The ideal candidate for this position will be a HR Generalist, with proven experience of providing commercial focused guidance around Employee relations, obtain a CIPD qualification, and evident their ability to deliver advice to first line management.

If this role sounds like it's for you, please apply for a confidential conversation around your experience!

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.