Job Title: HR Consultancy Adviser
Salary Range: £35,391 - £49,365 per annum
One-year Fixed Term and One Permanent Positions – Fulltime (36 hours)
Location: Wandsworth / Twickenham offices (Hybrid working)
We’re pleased to offer an exciting internal opportunity for an enthusiastic, hard-working person in a demanding environment.
You will be an experienced HR professional joining our consultancy team. This role offers an excellent opportunity for you to work within the Richmond and Wandsworth Better Service Partnership, supporting a wide range of business areas.
About the role
In this role, you will deliver expert advice and guidance to managers on a variety of HR topics, including employee relations, sickness absence, recruitment, and organisational change. You will also:
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Assist with researching and preparing cases and materials for employment tribunals and committees.
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Support the job evaluation process, including evaluating posts and interviewing postholders.
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Manage and expedite casework such as disciplinary and grievance cases, sickness absence, and performance management, ensuring lessons learned are captured and shared.
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Help managers and HR colleagues with restructures and TUPE processes.
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We are seeking someone with a strong working knowledge of HR, a proactive approach to casework, and the ability to influence and support managers. Excellent organisational, communication, and IT skills are essential, as is the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Good working knowledge of the HR function, including employee relations and recruitment.
Knowledge of the principles of equality and diversity for the purposes of working effectively with and within a diverse workforce
Experience of proactively supporting case work using a case management approach.
Experience of supporting managers and HR staff.
Successful track record of resolving complex issues
Effective oral and written communication skills
Excellent IT skills including MS Office applications and HR database management
Indicative Recruitment Timeline
Closing Date: 28th June 2026
Shortlisting Date: W/C 29th June 2026
Interview Date: TBC
We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Useful Information
Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments
throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
