HR Advisor

Tlt Llp; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking an experienced HR Advisor to join their Bristol office. This role involves advising managers across the UK on employment legislation and HR policies. The ideal candidate will have a background in HR advisory roles and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days)

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a generalist HR Advisor role in a fast-paced, multi-site organization.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to handle sensitive issues.
• Competence in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for managers on HR issues.
• Support employee relations matters including performance management.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners on high-risk cases.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Trust building

Education

CIPD qualification (or working towards)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

iTrent

Job description

We're seeking an experienced and proactive HR Advisor to join our dynamic team at our Bristol Head Office. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in supporting our managers across the UK and Northern Ireland, with occasional travel to regional offices.

As an HR Advisor, you'll be a trusted partner to our managers, offering expert guidance across the full employee lifecycle. You'll collaborate closely with Senior HR Business Partners, helping shape people strategies and championing a consistent, fair, and engaging employee experience.

Responsibilities

• Serving as the first point of contact for managers, advising on employment legislation, HR policies, and procedures.
• Supporting a wide range of employee relations matters—performance management, disciplinary and grievance cases, absence management, capability issues, and flexible working.
• Partnering with our occupational health provider and advising on wellbeing initiatives, family-friendly policies, and implementing recommendations.
• Maintaining and analysing the Employee Relations Tracker to identify and report trends.
• Collaborating with HR Business Partners to highlight and escalate high-risk cases.
• Advising managers on contractual changes, including secondments, promotions, and amendments to terms and conditions.
• Supporting colleagues returning to work, ensuring reasonable adjustments are implemented smoothly.
• Coordinating TUPE processes and ensuring legal and procedural compliance.
• Assisting with cyclical HR processes, including performance grading, promotions, and salary reviews.
• Managing exit processes including resignations, exit interviews, and resource planning.
• Running HR data reports and producing the monthly dashboard to inform strategic decisions.

About the team

The HR team consists of the HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment and Organisational Development, with specialists in Learning and Development, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing and Sustainability. The team focuses on providing strategic and operational support to leaders and teams to ensure our people are skilled, creative, valued, motivated, flexible and committed. Our culture aims to enable everyone to perform at their very best.

The HR Business Partner team consists of Senior HR Business Partners, HR Business Partners, HR Advisors and an HR Operations team.

Qualifications and requirements

• Proven experience in a generalist HR Advisor role, ideally within a fast-paced, multi-site organisation.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly, handle sensitive issues, and build trust.
• Meticulous attention to detail with excellent planning and organisational capabilities.
• Competence in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel and Word); experience with iTrent is desirable.
• CIPD qualification or working towards one.
• Ability to build strong relationships and credibility with managers at varying levels.
• Excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and strong planning and organisational skills.
• Good IT skills with experience in Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office packages; experience of iTrent (HR software) would be advantageous.
• A willingness to travel to different UK locations to support offices across Great Britain.

Additional information

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people. We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors, with local, national and international reach. We have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. We support a hybrid working approach and flexible working to meet the needs of our people and clients.