HR Team Leader

Job description

HR Team Leader

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a HR Compliance Team Leader to work as part of our HR Operations team delivers compliance activity in the main areas of

• Home Office Immigration and Right to Work and Pre-Employment Vetting
• Solicitors Regulation and Registration
• Visa and Sponsorship Licenses
• Co-ordination of HR Data Subject Rights Requests
• Demonstrate compliance adherence to ISO27001 and other accreditations as required for internal and external auditing requirements

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Subject matter expert on UK right to work requirements and a point of contact and escalation for the business.
• Manage the complete visa lifecycle of non-EEA employees sponsored by the Firm. Provide advisory support throughout the initial process then continue to be the key contact for visa related queries and tasks relating this this employee type.
• Oversee the processing of Tier 5 GAE visa applications.
• Assume responsibility for the Firm's sponsorship licences, including, ensuring that migrant activity is reported in line with the immigration rules, co-ordinating and submitting applications to renew licences, informing UKVI of changes within the business that may affect the Firm's sponsorship licences.
• Lead the planning, processing and delivery of all HR Data Subject Rights Requests. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; co-ordinating team to ensure adequate resourcing, liaising with the HR Director and relevant Group HR contact, liaise with Firm's Privacy team, ensuring clear instructions are given IT/Finance where required, ensure the Data Subject remains informed throughout the process, assist with compiling the requested information where necessary.
• Supervise the management, security, retention and destruction of all hard copy and electronic employee data.
• Ensure that the implications of the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation and the Firm's Privacy Policy are considered throughout all processes
• Continuously review all employee vetting processes.
• Evaluate effectiveness, monitor costs and seek feedback from internal users and external candidates.
• Review the HR risk register and regularly review levels of risk within the business based around compliance activities.
• Investigate and explore resolutions surrounding incidents reported on the Information Security Forum. Recommend preventative measures where necessary.
• Lead the liaison with relevant law societies to ensure that renewals and membership administration is completed to ensure that the firm complies within the regulatory framework of each jurisdiction.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

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