Senior HR Consultant – Expert Employee Relations (Hybrid)

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

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.