Salary: £38,220 to £42,839 per annum
Grade: JK
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours per Week
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire
Hybrid Working (currently the team work together at County Hall, Northallerton on a Tuesday and Wednesday)
Senior HR Adviser (HR Advisory Team)
Are you looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to develop your HR career?
Our HR Advisory Team currently have a great opportunity to join them as a Senior HR Adviser. Our Advisory Team are part of the HR service at NYC primarily providing an HR enquiry service via phone and email and HR casework support to all of the directorates within North Yorkshire Council plus a number of external customers. The team also undertake a number of other activities including delivering manager skills sessions around key elements of our HR policies and support our HR Business Partner Teams in delivering restructures and service change.
We are a busy front facing team based at County Hall in Northallerton but work in a hybrid way with opportunities to also work from home and/or other council offices as appropriate. The ability to travel across the county to deliver our service when required is however essential.
The team sits as part of North Yorkshire Council’s high performing HR and OD Service and we are very proud to have recently won the 2025 PPMA Public Sector HR and OD Team of the Year, the PPMA Gold award as well as a recent award for HR and Payroll provider of the year from Education Today.
Our Senior HR Advisor role is varied, challenging, and rewarding role within a fast paced but highly supportive team.
The role…
As a Senior HR Adviser you will be responsible for a number of key areas;
- 1. Lead on more complex casework.
- 2. Hold a lead portfolio of one of our Directorates being the conduit for sharing information between the HR Advisory Team and the HRBP Team.
- 3. Lead on a portfolio area and support the Principal HR Adviser and the rest of the SHRA team in identifying and delivering service developments.
Contact and apply
For an informal conversation about this role please contact Hannah Yeadon, Principal HR Adviser via [email protected].
Applying is easy, simply click on apply and follow the steps.
Key Documents
Job Description
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Key dates:
Closing date: Midnight, Monday 13th July 2026
Shortlisting: Wednesday 17th July 2026
Interview date: Wednesday 22nd July 2026
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
