HR Advisor

Nuffield Health; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

free gym membership

health assessments

retail discounts

pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking an experienced HR Adviser to join our People Team in London with hybrid working. You will manage comprehensive employee relations casework, provide expert guidance to leaders, and champion compliant employment practices across the business.

This role requires strong ER experience, solid knowledge of UK employment law, and the ability to coach managers through sensitive conversations while supporting change initiatives and consultation processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in an HR Advisory role with a strong focus on employee relations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and policy application.
• Ability to coach managers and influence stakeholders through challenging conversations.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead on a wide range of employee relations casework, including disciplinary, grievance, absence management, performance and wellbeing matters.
• Provide expert, risk-based advice to managers, ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent, and legally compliant.
• Coach, support and challenge leaders to build capability in managing complex people issues.
• Prepare high-quality case documentation, including outcome letters, investigation reports, and management guidance.
• Manage cases end-to-end through the HR case management system, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution.
• Identify trends in ER activity and proactively recommend improvements to reduce risk and enhance employee experience.
• Work collaboratively with HRBPs, legal advisors, occupational health, and other stakeholders on complex or high-risk cases.
• Support organisational change programmes and TUPE activity, ensuring compliant consultation processes.

Skills

Employee relations

ER casework

Stakeholder management

Coaching & influencing

UK employment law

Communication skills

Change management

Education

CIPD Level 5 (or working towards)

Job description

HR Adviser Epsom & Barbican, London | Hybrid Working | People Team | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes, we’ll do whatever it takes to support the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion, commitment to quality — and it starts with you.

We’re looking for an experienced HR Adviser with a strong employee relations focus to join our People Team. In this role, you’ll partner closely with leaders to manage a broad range of complex people matters, providing expert, pragmatic advice and ensuring fair and consistent application of policies. This is a key role where you’ll take ownership of ER casework, support organisational change initiatives, and play an active role in consultation processes. You’ll bring confidence in handling sensitive issues, strong employment law knowledge, and the ability to influence and coach managers through challenging situations.

Key Responsibilities

• Take the lead on a wide range of employee relations casework, including disciplinary, grievance, absence management, performance and wellbeing matters
• Provide expert, risk-based advice to managers, ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent, and legally compliant
• Coach, support and challenge leaders to build capability and confidence in managing complex people issues
• Prepare high-quality case documentation, including outcome letters, investigation reports, and management guidance
• Manage cases end-to-end through the HR case management system, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely resolution
• Identify trends in ER activity and proactively recommend improvements to reduce risk and enhance employee experience
• Work collaboratively with HRBPs, legal advisors, occupational health, and other stakeholders on complex or high-risk cases

Change Management & Consultations

• Support organisational change programmes, including restructures, service redesigns, and TUPE activity
• Provide guidance to managers on change processes and consultation requirements, ensuring compliance with employment law and organisational standards
• Actively support and participate in collective and individual consultation processes, including preparing documentation and attending consultation meetings
• Produce clear and professional consultation materials (e.g., letters, FAQs, briefing packs)
• Support managers to effectively communicate change and manage employee engagement throughout the process

Policy & Best Practice

• Ensure consistent and compliant application of HR policies and procedures, with a particular focus on employee relations and change
• Contribute to continuous improvement of HR policies, processes, and ways of working
• Promote best practice in people management and support a positive employee experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll demonstrate:

• Significant experience in an HR Advisory role with a strong focus on employee relations
• Proven ability to manage complex ER cases end-to-end
• Is highly driven, resilient and comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment
• Experience supporting organisational change and consultation processes
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law, particularly in relation to ER and change
• Strong influencing, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
• Confidence in handling sensitive situations and challenging conversations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail
• An proactive, solutions-focused approach with the ability to manage competing priorities
• CIPD Level 5 (or working towards) is desirable.

Benefits

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.