HR Adviser
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5089 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield LE3 8RF
Worker Category: Hybrid
Salary: LCC Grade 11 points 27 - 30, £38,700 - £41,373 (pay award pending)
Working Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 5.00pm, Monday 12th May.
Interview Date(s): To be confirmed
Are you an experienced HR professional looking for your next challenge? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment? Join our dynamic and commercially driven team providing strategic HR support mainly to schools and academies.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a professional and forward-thinking team, where your contributions will make a real difference in the education sector.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled HR Adviser to deliver proactive, solution-focused HR services to our clients. Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you will be instrumental in guiding school and academy leaders through a wide range of HR matters, helping them achieve sustainable and positive outcomes.
Key Responsibilities for this role include;
- Delivering high-quality HR consultancy services across a range of complex casework and strategic projects.
- Providing expert advice on disciplinary, grievance, capability, sickness absence, conduct, organisational change, workforce planning, terms and conditions (teaching and support staff), contract management, pay and reward, and more.
- Designing, developing and implementing clear, practical HR policies, procedures and guidance tailored to client needs.
- Building strong relationships with clients, understanding their context, risks, and priorities to offer effective solutions.
- Collaborating with trade unions and stakeholders to resolve HR issues constructively and strategically.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Hold a relevant degree or professional management qualification, or demonstrate significant equivalent experience in an HR advisory role in either an educational or public sector environment.
- Have excellent IT skills and strong commercial awareness.
- Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation and case law and articulate how it applies to client situations.
- Be experienced in delivering HR services (in either an educational or local authority setting) as a sold service model.
- Be confident managing multiple HR cases, often complex, with minimal supervision.
- Communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively with clients and stakeholders.
- Be a team player with a flexible, proactive approach and excellent organisational skills.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
- Anita Mittal, Senior HR Adviser; Telephone: 0116 3056729; Email: anita.mittal@leics.gov.uk or
- Risha Budhdeo, Senior HR Adviser, Telephone; 0116 3056718; Email risha.budhdeo@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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