HR Advisor

Our Values:

• Collaboration - We collaborate as a team, communicate openly to learn and share.

• Respect - We value diverse perspectives and treat others with kindness.

• Excellence - We continuously strive for improvement in creative and technical excellence.

• Wellbeing - We prioritise wellbeing to create a positive and supportive community.

Overview: 

We’re looking for a driven HR professional to join our People team at Lucid.

You will work directly within a small team and you’ll be involved in a wide range of HR activities, supporting a workforce of approximately 250 employees.

This role will be hybrid, 3 days in the office and 2 days can be remote if you wish.

What you'll do: 

• First point of contact for all HR related queries across the business.

• Supporting managers, giving advice and guidance and leaning on company policy and procedure where appropriate.

• Support with the HR system Hibob, keeping data accurate and managing reporting and analytics.

• Supporting the performance management cycle including objective setting, performance reviews and managing 1:1s.

• Providing advice and guidance on managing absence, ensuring completion of return-to-work conversations, providing support and escalating where necessary.

• Supporting on drafting new policies and procedures, identifying process efficiencies and automations.

• Supporting with payroll administration by collating employee data including new starters, leavers and changes.

• Support on employee relations cases including disciplinaries, grievances, absences and performance management etc

• Supporting managers on induction of new starters, probation reviews and ensuring onboarding and induction tasks are completed. 

• Manage and coordinate DSARs

• Support on HSE

• Comfortable and confident to educate managers, support or lead workshops for employees/ managers on a range of HR topics.

• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in HR processes and proactively raise and resolve them.

• Supporting family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, flexible working, and parental leave requests

• Assisting with employee initiatives and wider People Team projects

• Proactively stay up to date with current trends in the market and share these within the team

• Collaborate and engage with the People team, sharing knowledge, experience and ideas that can be implemented to drive success.

What we're looking for from you: 

You might be a HR Administrator who’s looking for a step up or you might be a HR Advisor looking for a new challenge. For this role, we’re looking for somebody who is:

• Comfortable taking the lead on HR processes rather than waiting for direction

• Naturally curious and inquisitive, with the confidence to ask questions and challenge things that don’t look right

• Proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple priorities

• Strong attention to detail with a practical, common‑sense approach

• Confident communicator who can build trusted relationships at all levels

• A team player with a good sense of humour and able to work alongside others with a positive attitude 

• Experience using HR systems and maximising functionality

• General understanding of employment law and HR policies and processes. 

• Able to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion 

A CIPD level qualification is desirable but not required, it’s more important that you have a can-do attitude, are motivated to deliver and have hands-on experience.

What can you expect during the Interview Process:

Our interview process typically takes 2-4 weeks depending on availability is usually made up of 2 stages:

• 1st stage (45 minutes) – An informal chat to discuss your experience and working history relating to the position with the team. In return, we will provide a full overview of the role, life at the studio as well as answer any questions you may have.

• Final interview (30 minutes) – This will be a chance for you to get to know the Senior Management team and all the things that make Lucid, Lucid! You will have a lot of opportunities to ask any questions about the studio and Culture.

How can we support you?

We work our process around your availability and try to be as accommodating as possible. A member of our recruitment team will be in touch prior to your first interview and will keep in contact throughout the process. If you have any specific questions prior to this please contact careers@lucidgames.co.uk
We can provide suitable adjustments during our recruitment processes. Should you require adjustments/flexible arrangements to interview, or take up a role at Lucid, please let us know in the notes/cover letter section of your application. This will not affect your application.

What we can offer you:

• Hybrid and Flexible working to suit you around our core hours of 10-4pm

• Private Healthcare for you and your family.

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Free parking in Liverpool City Centre

• Company pension at 4% of annual salary

• 29 days holidays, Including Christmas shutdown.

• Cycle2work scheme

• Early Friday finish every last Friday of the month

• Profit Share Bonus & Christmas Bonus

• Monthly company breakfast

Don’t meet all the requirements?
We care about what you can do, not just what’s on paper, and we understand that the best people for the role may have a CV that looks a little different.