HR Senior People Advisor (Maternity cover)
Fixed Term - Full TimeJob Overview
Fixed Term, Maternity Cover: Between 12-15 months.
As a Senior People Advisor, you will provide high quality HR advice, guidance, and support to managers and employees across the business. Acting as a trusted partner, you will help ensure best practice is consistently applied in line with employment law, firm policies, and our company values. This role plays a key part in fostering a high performing, inclusive, and engaged culture through effective employee relations support, coaching, and the delivery of key HR initiatives. You will also work closely with our People Business Partners to deliver a seamless and proactive HR service to the firm.
As a Senior People Advisor, you will provide high quality HR advice, guidance, and support to managers and employees across the business. Acting as a trusted partner, you will help ensure best practice is consistently applied in line with employment law, firm policies, and our company values. This role plays a key part in fostering a high performing, inclusive, and engaged culture through effective employee relations support, coaching, and the delivery of key HR initiatives. You will also work closely with our People Business Partners to deliver a seamless and proactive HR service to the firm.
About the role
- Provide clear HR advice and guidance to managers and employees, ensuring consistent application of policies and procedures across the firm
- Support managers with a range of ER cases, including disciplinary, grievance, probation, and performance, attending hearings and conducting investigations as required
- Work with HR Operations to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation across the employee lifecycle
- Support People Business Partners with casework, delivery of HR process training, and preparation of management information
- Coordinate short and long term sickness cases, including Occupational Health referrals, case reviews, and hearing support
- Produce and review people data to identify trends and support retention, including insights from exit interviews and onboarding
- Support change management activity, attending meetings and advising on contractual matters as required
- Contribute to the development and updating of HR policies, processes, and supporting guidance
- Champion the People Services function and promote the firm’s culture and values in all interactions
- Promote reward and benefits offerings by educating employees and sharing key information
- Support firmwide initiatives aimed at fostering equal opportunities and building a diverse workforce
What we're looking for
- Extensive experience as an ER generalist within a comparable environment
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate and support ER meetings, including confident note taking and providing informed, on the spot advice
- Willingness and flexibility to travel across our offices to support casework when required
- Proven capability in delivering pragmatic, commercially focused ER solutions aligned to business needs
- Strong knowledge of employment legislation and awareness of emerging external best practice trends
- Clear understanding of the commercial impact of ER issues and how business priorities influence people matters
- Experience engaging with and influencing senior stakeholders effectively
- CIPD qualified or possessing equivalent experience is desirable