HR Advisor
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Job Location:
Northampton - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
22-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
3 months contract with a local authority
- Operating in a business partnering model the Senior HR Advisor is customer-focused providing professional advice and challenge on a full range of HR matters including case management redundancy and organizational change programs. This role contributes to the delivery of the Councils People Strategy by taking responsibility for key elements of the program. Additionally the position involves maintaining and analyzing the employee records system identifying trends and issues and collaborating with services to develop action plans based on the data.
- Advice Support and Challenge: Manage and resolve a complex HR caseload autonomously providing both responsive and proactive advice and guidance on HR issues. Offer a range of options assess risk factors and challenge managers to consider employment legislation and business needs while supporting employee well-being and engagement.
- Employee Relations: Provide advice guidance training and coaching to managers on employee relations casework including ill health performance grievance disciplinary redundancy and organizational change. Build relationships across all management tiers to ensure a proactive and professional HR service.
- Customer Relationship: Act as a comprehensive front-line HR Advisory service responding to inquiries from services via the shared advisory inbox or directly from operational line management clients. Encourage and coach customers to adopt self-service behavior particularly in using our ERP system.
- Change Management: Lead and support the SHRBP and HRBP in delivering change management projects including service restructures and TUPE transfers. Utilize a project management approach to ensure activities are planned coordinated documented and driven through at pace coaching managers to drive effective change and engagement with their teams.
- Extensive experience working within an HR environment delivering HR advice and support to customers.
- Experience managing a complex HR Advisory caseload face-to-face with managers making autonomous decisions based on employment law and HR policy.
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent demonstrable experience in a similar role.
- Working Hours: 37 hours per week
- Location: 2 days at home 3 days in One Angel Square
Required Skills:
Operating in a business partnering model the Senior HR Advisor is customer focussed providing professional advice and challenge on a full range of HR matters including case management and redundancy and organisational change programmes. The role also contributes to the delivery of the Councils People Strategy taking responsibility for delivery of key elements of the programme. The post is also responsible for maintaining and interrogating the employee records system analysing data identifying trends and issues and working with services to action plan from the data
Required Education:
CIPD level 5 or demonstrable experience level of working in a similar role.
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Data Analytics
- Employee Relations
- Succession Planning
- Human Resources Management
- Dayforce
- Conflict Management
- Ceridian
- Benefits Administration
- HRIS
- Peoplesoft
- Human Resources
- Workday
