HR Consultant

Tate Recruitment; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Tate Recruitment is seeking a HR Consultant for a Bristol-based local authority, focusing on job evaluations. The role aims to ensure fair grading and robust policy alignment, while offering mostly remote work with a weekly office presence.

The position is permanent and full-time, with a salary around £47,665 per year. You will advise managers on role design and evaluation processes, maintain evaluation frameworks, and use workforce data to inform pay decisions, ensuring compliance and a fair

Qualifications

• Significant local authority experience is essential.
• Significant experience of undertaking GLPC evaluations is essential.
• Experience with policy development and/or casework is desirable.
• Solid understanding of employment law and good HR practice.
• Ability to analyse information and present evidence-based insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support job evaluation activity, ensuring fair and consistent assessments.
• Advise managers on role design, grading outcomes and evaluation processes.
• Support maintenance and development of evaluation frameworks and documentation.
• Use workforce data to inform pay, grading and organisational decisions.
• Ensure employment practices remain fair, accessible and compliant with legislation.
• Provide insight from feedback to support decision-making and equalities assessments.
• Review and develop HR policies to ensure clarity and compliance.
• Support organisational projects requiring HR expertise, shaping workforce culture.
• Act as a key HR liaison with managers to promote fair people practices.
• Contribute to learning resources and training to enhance people-management capability.

Job description

HR Consultant - Job Evaluations

• Mostly remote (attend the office once per week in Bristol)

• £47,665 per annum
• Full Time - Monday - Friday
• Permanent
• Mostly remote (attend the office once per week in Bristol)

Tate are working with a local authority in Bristol in their search for a HR Consultant, with a key focus managing job evaluations.

Your role focus will be on job evaluations, with key responsibilities including:

• Lead and support job evaluation activity, ensuring roles are assessed fairly and consistently
• Advise managers on role design, grading outcomes and job evaluation processes
• Support the maintenance and development of job evaluation frameworks and documentation
• Use role and workforce data to inform pay, grading and organisational decisions.
• Ensuring employment practices remain fair, accessible and aligned with legislation and good practice.
• Using insight, feedback and workforce information to support decision‑making, contribute to assessments such as Equality Impact Assessments (EqIAs), and help identify where improvements or updates are needed.
• Review and develop HR policies to ensure clarity, fairness and compliance with employment legislation.
• Support organisational projects requiring HR or policy expertise, particularly those shaping workforce culture.
• Act as a key HR link with managers and colleagues to promote consistent and fair people practices.
• Contribute to learning resources and training that enhance people‑management capability.

About You

• Significant local authority expertise is essential
• Significant experience of undertaking GLPC evaluations is essential
• Experience of complex/disputed evaluations is desirable but not essential - though if they have experience of hundreds of evaluations then there will have been some contentious ones.
• Solid HR experience, including policy development and/or casework, alongside a good understanding of employment law and good HR practice.
• Ability to analyse information and present clear, evidence‑based insights, handle sensitive discussions with professionalism and balance, and bring a collaborative style with a commitment to a fair, supportive workplace culture.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.