HR Adviser

TN United Kingdom; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield LE3 8RF

Worker Category: Hybrid

Working Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 5.00pm, Monday 12th May

Interview Date(s): To be confirmed

Are you an experienced HR professional looking for your next challenge? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment? Join our dynamic and commercially driven team providing strategic HR support mainly to schools and academies.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a professional and forward-thinking team, where your contributions will make a real difference in the education sector.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled HR Adviser to deliver proactive, solution-focused HR services to our clients. Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you will be instrumental in guiding school and academy leaders through a wide range of HR matters, helping them achieve sustainable and positive outcomes.

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

1. Delivering high-quality HR consultancy services across a range of complex casework and strategic projects.
2. Providing expert advice on disciplinary, grievance, capability, sickness absence, conduct, organisational change, workforce planning, terms and conditions (teaching and support staff), contract management, pay and reward, and more.
3. Designing, developing and implementing clear, practical HR policies, procedures and guidance tailored to client needs.
4. Building strong relationships with clients, understanding their context, risks, and priorities to offer effective solutions.
5. Collaborating with trade unions and stakeholders to resolve HR issues constructively and strategically.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

1. Hold a relevant degree or professional management qualification, or demonstrate significant equivalent experience in an HR advisory role in either an educational or public sector environment.
2. Have excellent IT skills and strong commercial awareness.
3. Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation and case law and articulate how it applies to client situations.
4. Be experienced in delivering HR services (in either an educational or local authority setting) as a sold service model.
5. Be confident managing multiple HR cases, often complex, with minimal supervision.
6. Communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively with clients and stakeholders.
7. Be a team player with a flexible, proactive approach and excellent organisational skills.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal.

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