Senior HR Adviser - 6 month Fixed Term Contract

What will you be doing?

We're seeking a talented individual to join our London HR Advisory team on an initial 6 month fixed term contract. Working closely with the Employee Relations Manager, the HR Business Partners, and the HR Services team to provide proactive and commercial HR advice and guidance to the business to assist them in delivering their overall business strategy.

This role requires substantial experience in managing complex employee relations cases, including high-risk grievances, disciplinaries, and sensitive investigations, ensuring robust and legally sound outcomes. Providing escalation support and coaching to HR Advisers, this role is key to the team's ongoing development.

As Senior HR Adviser, your responsibilities will include among others

• Establish and develop trusted relationships across the business at a variety of levels through collaboration and gaining credibility
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR systems and practices
• Maintain knowledge of current case law, identify implications to our current practices and make proposals for improvement where relevant
• Provide support to the HR Business Partners to deliver change projects, e.g. restructuring, M&A activities etc.
• Lead and/or participate on certain projects e.g. policy and process reviews, SMCR, Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), Whistleblowing etc
• Provide HR advice and guidance to specific client groups
• Take ownership of complex employee relations cases, including high-risk grievances, disciplinaries, and appeals, ensuring thorough investigation, documentation, and resolution in line with legal and policy frameworks
• Provide support on complex employee relations issues and advise on other employee relations issues including the case management of performance improvement plans, sickness absence management, grievances and disciplinaries etc, escalating as required
• Provide support on other leaves of absence such as maternity/paternity leave and changes to terms and conditions including flexible working requests etc
• Proactively support the development of our HR Advisers, sharing your knowledge and experience where beneficial
• Work closely with the Resourcing team for business recruitment needs, and Learning & Development for business training needs
• Supporting the Head of Reward and Reward team with operational reward matters including the annual pay review
• Compile and analyse HR Management Information
• Provide support to the HR Services team as required
• The role will require some travel to other offices as required.