HR Consultant

Hireful

Redditch

On-site

GBP 44,000 - 47,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Health cash-back plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Structured induction

CIPD and professional development

Free parking

Team events

Great countryside location

Job summary

Redwing Solutions Ltd, a friendly HR consultancy based in Redditch, Worcestershire, is seeking an HR Consultant to join a small, supportive team. You will provide expert employment law and HR advice to managers, business owners and in-house HR professionals.

You will coach managers through complex employee relations cases, draft letters and policies, and help clients navigate disciplinary, grievance, redundancy and TUPE scenarios while ensuring commercially focused, legally compliant decisions.

Qualifications

Significant HR generalist experience with UK employment legislation.
Extensive employee relations expertise across disciplinary, grievance and absence cases.
Experience in regulated environments with external bodies (helpful, not essential).

Responsibilities

Advise managers on complex disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence cases.
Advise on restructuring, redundancy and TUPE projects as needed.
Coach managers through challenging issues to enable compliant decisions.
Produce high-quality letters, templates, policies, procedures and guidance documents.
Build lasting client relationships and maintain knowledge sharing within the team.

Skills

HR generalist experience

Employment law

Employee relations

Coaching managers

Relationship building

Policy drafting

Education

CIPD level 5 or above

Job description

Location: Redditch
Salary: £44,000 to £46,500 FTE + discretionary bonus
Hours: Full-time 37.5. 30 hours per week will be considered

Are you someone who values being a key part of a friendly, supportive and close-knit HR team? Do you enjoy supporting managers who really value you, with their day-to-day HR issues? If so, then this might be the role for you!

Our brilliant client, Redwing Solutions Ltd, have a fantastic opportunity available, to join their established and highly regarded HR consultancy based in Redditch, Worcestershire.

Unlike other HR Consultant roles that can be a little isolated and mean travelling to clients, this position sits in a very friendly and supportive office environment where it's never an issue to run something past a colleague and sense check your thinking, enabling you to enjoy the many benefits of a consultancy role, but maintain the team spirit and structured environment that can make those challenging days far better.

Redwing Solutions Ltd is an HR consultancy with a difference. They have been in business for over 20 years supporting children's nurseries and small businesses with their day-to-day HR needs. They are industry leading experts in what they do with an unparalleled reputation in their field. They work like a well-oiled team to deliver excellent service to their long-standing clients.

The team work hard and deal with some very challenging issues, as you'd expect, but they come together to support each other through challenging cases with a smile. They also ensure they celebrate their successes in the team and with their clients, and never miss an opportunity for cake, birthdays or office celebrations, even ensuring the office dogs aren't left out!

You'd be joining a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing is key to how this team operate, nobody is afraid to ask for help, and everyone is trusted to do a great job.

The Role

As an HR Consultant, you'll be one of the senior members of the small HR team, providing expert employment law and HR advice to managers, business owners and in-house HR professionals.

You'll be advising clients on a varied caseload of complex employee relations matters while coaching and supporting them to make sound, commercially focused and legally compliant decisions. You'll need to have great relationship building and influencing skills.

Your day would look like:

Advising clients on complex disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence cases
Advising clients on restructuring, redundancy and occasionally TUPE projects
Coaching managers through these challenging issues, to support them in the best way possible
Producing high-quality letters, templates, policies, procedures and guidance documents
Building strong and lasting relationships with the clients, some have been with this business over 20 years!

What We're Looking For

To be considered for this role you must be someone who enjoys helping clients to solve complex people problems and can confidently coach clients through all kinds of difficult employee situations.

You must have significant HR generalist experience and a strong understanding of UK employment legislation, alongside extensive employee relations expertise of managing complex disciplinary, grievance, capability, redundancy and absence cases.

It would be really helpful if you've worked in a regulated environment with external bodies such as Ofsted, and have knowledge of safeguarding processes, and TUPE experience, however these are not essential to be considered for the role.

You must hold a CIPD qualification at level 5 or above, or equivalent experience. Due to the office being in a lovely rural barn location just outside of Redditch, you will need your own transport, however parking is provided for free. This role is based in the office on a full-time basis, which helps the team with collaboration, learning and to maintain work-life boundaries.

You'll join a business that genuinely values its people and invests in them. The benefits include: