Senior HR Consultant (ER)

Wade Macdonald; Fleet; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Wade Macdonald is partnering with a growing HR consultancy in Fleet to recruit a Senior HR Consultant with strong Employee Relations expertise. This hybrid role will see you handle challenging ER matters for multiple clients from the Fleet office three days a week and occasional travel.

The successful candidate will bring extensive senior HR experience, solid employment law knowledge, and excellent stakeholder management to guide client leadership through complex employment issues.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in senior operational HR and complex employee relations.
• Strong employment law knowledge with sound judgement.
• Excellent stakeholder management and commercially minded approach.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary procedures, grievances, absence management and performance concerns.
• Advising management teams on sensitive employment issues, ensuring decisions are compliant with current legislation.
• Overseeing challenging employee situations, including workplace investigations, formal hearings and termination processes.
• Preparing accurate HR correspondence, investigation findings and consultation documentation.
• Guiding managers through challenging conversations and developing their confidence in managing employee issues.
• Ensuring HR frameworks and procedures remain practical, consistent and aligned with employment law.
• Identifying opportunities to enhance HR processes, documentation and operational effectiveness.
• Providing specialist guidance on organisational restructuring, TUPE transfers and workforce changes.

Skills

Senior HR experience

Employee relations expert

Employment law knowledge

Stakeholder management

Consultancy experience

Job description

Senior HR Consultant (Employee Relations) – Hook, Hampshire (Hybrid) – £60-65k

About the Client

Wade Macdonald is delighted to be partnering with a growing and established HR consultancy in Fleet to recruit an experienced Senior HR Consultant with a strong background in complex Employee Relations (ER).

About the Job

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior HR Consultant with extensive Employee Relations expertise to join a growing consultancy. This is a hands-on, client-facing position where you will take ownership of challenging HR matters, providing commercially focused guidance and supporting businesses with their everyday people management needs.

Duties will include:

• Taking full responsibility for complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary procedures, grievances, absence management and performance concerns.
• Advising management teams on sensitive employment issues, ensuring decisions are compliant with current legislation.
• Overseeing challenging employee situations, including workplace investigations, formal hearings and termination processes.
• Preparing accurate HR correspondence, investigation findings and consultation documentation.
• Guiding managers through challenging conversations and developing their confidence in managing employee issues.
• Ensuring HR frameworks and procedures remain practical, consistent and aligned with employment law.
• Identifying opportunities to enhance HR processes, documentation and operational effectiveness.
• Providing specialist guidance on organisational restructuring, TUPE transfers and workforce changes.
• Keeping abreast of employment law developments and translating legislative changes into practical advice.
• Establishing positive relationships with clients, providing dependable support and commercially balanced recommendations.

About the Successful Applicant

You will have significant experience in senior operational HR and a strong background in complex employee relations. Confident working independently, you will possess excellent employment law knowledge, sound judgement and strong stakeholder management skills. A resilient, approachable and commercially minded professional, you will enjoy a varied consultancy environment and be comfortable working from the Fleet office at least three days per week, with occasional client travel.

What You Will Receive in Return

You will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, dependent on experience, alongside the opportunity to join a growing and supportive organisation. The role offers exposure to a varied client portfolio, genuine autonomy and the opportunity to influence people management practices across different businesses.