HR Advisor / Senior HR Advisor (Change)

Personnel Today Awards; England; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Personnel Today Awards is seeking an HR Advisor to support an organisational change programme. You will join a dedicated HR project team, delivering hands-on support across restructures, consultation exercises, redundancy programmes, redeployment activity, and employee relations in a complex, unionised environment.

The role involves working 3 days per week on site in Dorset with 2 days from home, and occasional site attendance for consultations. CIPD qualification is desirable.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience of delivering complex workforce change within unionised environments.
• Strong knowledge of redundancy, redeployment, and consultation processes.
• Experience engaging with Trade Unions and employee representatives.
• Proven ability to manage high-volume ER casework and settlement processes.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of large-scale organisational change and restructuring programmes.
• Coordinate and administer consultation processes (collective and individual).
• Provide advice on redundancy, VR, redeployment, and change procedures.
• Manage a varied caseload of ER matters including settlements and change-related cases.
• Build relationships with Trade Unions, employee reps, managers, and stakeholders.

Skills

Change management

Restructuring

Consultation

ER casework

Trade Unions

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organisational change

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

We are seeking experienced HR Advisors to support an organisational change programme. Working as part of a dedicated HR project team, you will provide hands-on support across restructures, consultation exercises, redundancy programmes, redeployment activity, and employee relations.This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional with experience of delivering complex workforce change within a complex unionised environment.

Key Responsibilities

• - Support the delivery of large-scale organisational change and restructuring programmes.
• - Coordinate and administer consultation processes, including collective and individual consultations.
• - Provide advice and guidance on redundancy, voluntary redundancy (VR), redeployment, and workforce change procedures.
• - Manage a varied caseload of complex employee relations matters, including settlement agreements and change-related cases.
• - Build effective relationships with Trade Unions, employee representatives, managers, and key stakeholders.
• - Prepare consultation documentation, letters, change proposals, and meeting records.
• - Ensure HR records and associated documentation are accurate, compliant, and delivered within tight timescales.
• - Support managers throughout the change process, providing practical and legally compliant HR advice.

Candidates

We are seeking HR Advisor / HR Professionals who have a hands on experience of change management including restructuring, redundancy and consultation. You will demonstrate:

• - Experience supporting organisational change within complex unionised environments, e.g. public sector, not-for-profit or similar large-scale unionised environments
• - Strong knowledge of redundancy, voluntary redundancy, restructuring, redeployment, and consultation processes.
• - Experience engaging with Trade Unions and employee representatives.
• - Proven ability to manage complex ER casework and settlement processes.
• - Experience handling high-volume workloads within a fast-paced change environment.
• - Excellent communication, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
• - CIPD qualification or equivalent experience desirable.

Offer

4 months + initial contract via Hays online time sheets - weekly

3 days per week on site in Dorset / 2 from home, but there is a need to attend the site when project requirements are needed, e.g. when undertaking consultations.