Senior Employee Relations Advisor ( Full Time, Part-Time also available)
Hybrid Working – 3 Days in Our Blyth Office as a minimum or all days in office if preferred
Flexible Hours over 5 Days per Week to ensure client phone coverage
We are an innovative, award-winning HR and Neurodiversity Consultancy supporting businesses across the UK.
We are purpose and values led, delivering high standards HR, with a focus on our client commerciality, and with enthusiasm for HR.
We are on a clear mission and purpose to build inclusive workplaces that genuinely support neurodivergent employees and value their people.
Through our specialist arm, Inspired Minds, we are leading conversations around neurodiversity in the workplace. This is a niche and growing area of our business tha not only support our own client on this specialism but many other HR consultancies and teams. With this in mind we are looking for someone who wants to develop their knowledge and expertise in this area.
We’re looking for a senior-level HR professional with a passion for delivering high level employee relations work . A safe pair of hands. Calm under pressure. Commercially aware. Highly confident in managing complex, high-volume ER casework across multiple clients.
This is consultancy life. That means:
Multiple clients.
Different sectors.
Different working styles.
Competing priorities.
You’ll move confidently between disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, performance management, absence and wider strategic queries too.
A hugh volume and high-speed HR background like retail, hospitality, or an HR call centre experience is a strong advantage.
You’ll be advising internal HR teams, business owners, managers and senior leaders, so you must be confident in delivering expert, clear, pragmatic advice verbally, face-to-face, virtually and in writing.
You’ll build trusted client relationships and become a genuine partner to the organisations and teams you support.
We are hands-on case management, so you will be rolling your sleeves up and multitasking across the full HR spectrum and will not shy away from complexity.
You’ll need to hold client boundaries; challenge appropriately and still lead with warmth and enthusiasm.
This is a hybrid role, with three days per week based in our Blyth office and the remainder worked flexibly to give you a work life balance that suits your needs.
Neurodiversity knowledge is an advantage for this role, but if you don’t have this, don’t worry, we will fully support you to build this expertise.
What you’ll bring:
- Extensive, practical employee relations experience
- Confidence handling complex and high-volume casework
- Strong employment law knowledge & expertise
- High volume and high-speed knowledge is an advantage
- Experience in managing multiple clients and competing priorities
- Clear, calm and commercially grounded communication skills
- Confidence advising and appropriately challenging senior stakeholders
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Openness to learning about neurodiversity and inclusivity in the workplace
- Ability to increase to full-time hours over the current year
What we offer:
- Hybrid working (3 days in our Blyth office)
- Flexible working approach
- 6.6 weeks annual leave (pro rata) plus your birthday off
- Genuine progression opportunities
- Community and charity involvement
- The opportunity to work in a values-led and purpose-driven organisation/team
Our values are not words on a wall. We lead with with family, real-relationships, integrity enthusiasm, no-nonsense, dedication and simplicity at the heart of everything we do.
We prioritise inclusion and we treat people with kindness, including each other.
As a neuro-inclusive champion of change, we design our recruitment processes to be inclusive from start to finish.
We actively encourage candidates to request adjustments at any stage. This may include:
- Receiving interview questions in advance
- Alternative formats for tasks or assessments
- Flexibility around interview structure
- Adjustments to communication style
- Extra processing time
- Different ways to demonstrate your skills and experience
We care about your ability to thrive and we want you to show up as your best self throughout our whole process.
If you need something different to succeed in our process, we will work with you.
If you are experienced, grounded, commercially strong and ready to grow with a consultancy that balances high standards with genuine inclusion, we would love to hear from you.
Send your CV, or share your LinkedIn profile with us and tell us why you are the person we can trust with our clients.
Pay: Up to £36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Blyth NE24 3AF
