Senior HR Consultant

Roots HR; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Friendly team environment

Coaching and professional development

Flexible working options

Job summary

Roots HR is seeking a Senior HR Consultant to join our specialist HR consultancy serving social sector employers, including charities. You will coordinate the COMPLY service delivery, provide technical leadership to HR Consultants, and maintain a portfolio of consultancy engagements.

The role requires a hands-on HR practitioner with employment law and employee relations expertise, strong client care, and the ability to coach and develop others.

Qualifications

• Qualified to Chartered MCIPD level or as a minimum hold a Level 7 qualification in HR
• Extensive experience delivering generalist HR advice and guidance
• Experience advising and coaching line managers to conclusions on complex ER issues
• Experience managing client relationships and resolving service-delivery issues

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day operation of the HR Advice Service, ensuring inquiries are handled promptly and to standard
• Oversee ongoing casework, deadlines, service levels, capacity and risk
• Provide technical oversight, QA and practical support on complex ER casework and HR documentation
• Allocate and prioritise work across consultants, monitor utilisation and scheduling
• Lead monthly one-to-ones and support wellbeing, performance and development
• Maintain client portfolio and produce high-quality contracts, policies and reports

Skills

HR advisory

Employee relations

Coaching

Client relationships

Quality assurance

Education

MCIPD or Level 7 HR qualification

Job description

About Us

Roots HR is a dynamic and growing HR consultancy specialising in providing tailored, pragmatic human resources solutions to social sector employers, including charities. We believe in the power of HR to transform the social sector, and we are looking for an experienced Senior HR Consultant to join our small but dedicated team.

We are founded on the belief that social sector organisations of all sizes should have access to high quality, practical and affordable human resources services. We recognise the challenges for such organisations and develop our services to meet the needs of the social sector, in terms of culture, risk and scale. We deliver those services on a more than profit basis to meet our social purpose.

Our market leading COMPLY service is in high demand, and we are now seeking to grow our team with the appointment of an HR Consultant who will provide comprehensive and pragmatic HR advice, documentation, and compliance support to clients by phone, Teams / Zoom and email.

Position Overview

Our market-leading COMPLY service is in high demand. We are now looking for a Senior HR Consultant to coordinate its day-to-day delivery, provide technical leadership to the HR Consultants delivering the service and maintain an active portfolio of consultancy work.

This is a hands‑on senior role for an accomplished HR practitioner who combines strong employment law and employee relations expertise with sound judgement, excellent client care and the ability to coach and develop others. You will coordinate workloads, oversee case management, maintain service standards and act as the first point of escalation for complex HR and service‑delivery matters.

What you will do

• Coordinate the day-to-day operation of the HR Advice Service, ensuring client enquiries are handled promptly, professionally and in line with agreed service standards
• Oversee ongoing casework, deadlines, service levels, capacity and risk, escalating major concerns to the Head of Service Delivery
• Provide technical oversight, quality assurance and practical support on complex employee relations casework and HR documentation
• Allocate and prioritise work fairly across consultants and associates, monitoring utilisation, billable time and project scheduling
• Lead monthly one-to-ones and support the wellbeing, performance, capability and development of team members
• Maintain your own client portfolio, providing pragmatic advice and producing high-quality contracts, policies, reports, letters and case‑management documentation
• Support client relationships, identify recurring needs and use feedback to improve systems, processes and service delivery
• Contribute to proposals, scoping discussions, tenders, webinars, articles, newsletters and other business‑development activity.

The successful candidate will, along with other essential criteria:

• Be qualified to Chartered MCIPD level or as a minimum hold a level 7 qualification in HR
• Have extensive experience of delivering robust generalist HR advice and guidance, including advising and coaching line managers and advising to a successful conclusion on a broad range of complex employee relations issues
• Social sector experience or exposure, gained through employment, volunteering or governance role(s) with extensive and broad operational delivery of robust generalist HR advice and guidance
• Bring strong quality‑assurance and technical‑review skills across HR casework and documentation
• Have experience of managing client relationships and resolving service‑delivery issues
• Have excellent communication skills and be extremely skilled in influencing at all levels
• Have excellent written skills, able to produce high‑quality reports and other documentation
• Be passionate about human resources and committed to updating their knowledge on a frequent basis
• Ideally, you will bring experience of leading or coordinating a team.

In return for your skills and commitment we can offer you:

• A wide range of interesting and demanding work in a sector where HR effectiveness impacts on the life of the community
• A friendly, team‑oriented, supportive and trusting work environment
• Coaching and support in consultancy skills and practices
• Partnering internally with experienced and supportive colleagues.

Roots HR CIC is an equal opportunities employer welcoming application from all sections of the community. Continued eligibility to work in the UK is required.