HR Business Consultant
| Posting date: | 22 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 February 2026 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 444012/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy building strong, influential and lasting relationships with a broad range of stakeholders?
Are you able to extract information to provide evidence that supports the agency’s strategies?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) plays a vital role in keeping Britain’s roads safe and efficient.
DVLA’s Human Resources and Estates Directorate is at the heart of our organisation, supporting around 6,000 full time and part-time employees. We foster a workplace where our people can thrive, develop, and make a real difference every day. Our team is dedicated to championing talent, wellbeing, and innovation, ensuring that DVLA remains a great place to work and a driving force for positive change across the nation.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA.
We are looking for a positive, professional HR Business Consultant to join our HR team here at DVLA. You will be the face of HR out in the business, providing HR business consultancy support and advice. You will act as a critical friend, coaching and appropriately challenging the business, advising on people related issues. You will support managers with people related issues and queries, as well as upskilling people to develop leadership capabilities.
You will analyse data, using it to identify people issues within the business and suitable solutions.
This is an exciting, fast-paced and varied role in which no two days will be the same.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Work with business areas to support the delivery of the people plan.
- Coach managers to effectively handle people issues, including performance management, staff engagement, and conduct
- Develop strong and influential relationships with a wide range of stakeholders to identify local business issues across all HR disciplines that require HR solutions
- Monitor actual workforce numbers to ensure business areas are meeting workforce targets and highlight any areas of concern
- Liaise with the HR policy team and subject matter experts on commonly identified HR policy and practice issues within the business, working together to produce resolutions and quality assure the consistent application of HR policies and practices
- Manage distinct HR projects, instinctively incorporating HR and business metrics to quantify impact
- Drive continuous improvement and act as a change agent, seeking best practice from both within and outside the Agency when supporting HR-related change in the business area
- Analyse HR management information to inform business intelligence and implement actions to continuously improve the business
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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