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HR Adviser

Leicestershire County CouncilGlenfield🇬🇧United Kingdom

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SeniorityMid Senior

Work modeHybrid

LocationGlenfield, United Kingdom

RecruitingStakeholder ManagementComplianceEmployment LawProject Management

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Leicestershire County Council, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Salary: £41,259 - £44,109

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract Type: Fixed Term for 12 months

Closing Date: 4th November 2026

Interview Date(s): w/c 9 November 2026

Are you an experienced HR professional who enjoys turning complex people issues into practical solutions?

Would you like the opportunity to work on high-profile strategic HR projects and help shape the Council's future approach?

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced HR Adviser to join our Strategic HR Team on a 12-month fixed-term basis. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a varied programme of strategic HR work, with a particular focus on supporting Better Leicestershire and ensuring our policies and processes remain effective and compliant during a period of significant legislative change.

Working as part of a small specialist team, you will provide professional HR expertise across a varied portfolio of work. This will include HR policy development, strategic project management, consultation, trade union and stakeholder engagement.

You'll also have opportunities to contribute to the wider work of the Strategic HR Team, whose responsibilities include delivery of the People Strategy, responding to employment law changes and emerging complex people issues, skilled worker sponsorship, strategic resourcing, pay and reward, job evaluation, compliance, statutory and corporate data reporting and trade union consultation.

This role would suit an experienced and proactive HR professional who is comfortable working independently, interpreting employment legislation and HR policy, supporting consultation and negotiation, and delivering complex strategic projects. You'll need to build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and be able to translate complex HR matters into clear, practical solutions.

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About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

A relevant degree or professional/management qualification, or significant relevant operational experience at an equivalent level.
Experience of providing effective and practical HR advice and support across a range of employment matters, including organisational change, terms and conditions, recruitment and selection, attendance management, disciplinary, grievance, equality and diversity, and pay and reward.
Experience of developing and implementing effective and practical HR policies, procedures, guidance, processes and/or toolkits for managers and employees.
A strong understanding of employment law and case law, and HR best practice
Experience of developing effective working relationships with partners and stakeholders.
The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a project team.
Experience of identifying customer needs and opportunities for improvement and taking action to improve service delivery, including managing your time effectively to meet deadlines

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Please note: If you are appointed to this role on a fixed-term or internal secondment basis, you may later be offered a permanent appointment to the role, should the opportunity become available. Any such arrangements will be subject to organisational requirements and the relevant policy conditions being met.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Caroline Rowe, HR Strategy Team Manager

Telephone: 0116 3053954

Email: caroline.rowe@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

At Leicestershire County Council we’re looking for top talent from all walks of life. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever your background - we care about what you bring to our organisation, not just what’s on your CV. That’s why we’ve designed a recruitment process that’s fair, accessible, and focused on potential. And with benefits that support people at every age and stage of life, we make sure you can thrive - both personally and professionally.

If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire, we’d love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application, ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. Without this information, we won’t be able to assess your suitability for the role, and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement, 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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