HR Consultant

We are seeking an experienced HR professional who enjoys variety, complexity and the opportunity to work with different organisations, this could be the role for you. Our HR Consultancy team combines practical people expertise with employment law insight, helping clients tackle everything from day to day HR challenges through to business-critical strategic projects.

About the Team

Our HR Consultancy team sits within HCR’s Employment and Immigration team, providing organisations with practical, commercially focused support across the full employee lifecycle.

By combining HR expertise with legal insight, we help clients navigate everything from day to day HR challenges through to complex organisational change, workplace investigations and strategic workforce projects.

As our consultancy offering continues to grow, we are looking for a HR consultant who is passionate about HR and project management. We are looking for someone who enjoys working closely with clients and has experience in playing a key role in delivering integrated HR and legal solutions.

About the role

This role will offer variety, and no two days will look quite the same.

You will be a trusted adviser to a varied portfolio of clients, providing practical HR support that helps organisations manage their people effectively. From supporting managers with employee relations matters to supporting or leading the implementation of organisational change on the ground. , you’ll be involved in a broad range of interesting and often complex projects.

Working closely with employment lawyers you’ll provide joined-up advice that combines commercial HR expertise with an understanding of the employment law landscape alongside an in depth knowledge of the client.

Your work is likely to include -

• Working directly with clients through project based assignments/ secondments, giving you genuine insight into the organisations you support. This can include being seconded directly into a client’s HR function to either lead or support the implementation of HR projects on the ground.
• Advising clients on employee relations matters.
• Lead workplace investigations and mediation assignments that will include complex and sensitive matters.
• Drafting and reviewing contracts of employment, policies, handbooks and HR documentation.
• Supporting restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers and organisational change projects.
• Advising on disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence management processes.
• Delivering client training, workshops and employment law updates.
• Contributing to business development for the HR Consultancy team both internally and externally.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

We are interested in speaking with experienced HR professionals who enjoy building trusted relationships and providing pragmatic advice that makes a real difference to clients.

You will bring -

• CIPD Level 5 (HR Consultant) or CIPD Level 6 & (Senior HR Consultant) qualification or equivalent.
• Strong generalist HR experience gained within consultancy, advisory or business partnering environments. You will able to demonstrate experience in project based work.
• A solid understanding of UK employment law and it’s practical application.
• Experience managing employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence cases.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Ideally you will have experience leading projects, advising senior stakeholders and supporting the development of others.

Why Join?

You will be joining a collaborative and ambitious team where you will have the opportunity to work across varied and challenging projects, build meaningful client relationships and develop your expertise across both HR and employment law.