Senior HR Advisor at South Gloucestershire Council

How you'll make a difference:

The HR Casework and Change team enables our council to perform people management responsibilities effectively through the provision of consistent and practical HR advice.

As the Senior HR Advisor, your knowledge and expertise will make a difference in providing support and guidance to managers to successfully embed the social care reforms.  

What you will be doing:

• Daily, you will deliver consultancy and practical advice to the People department, managing complex cases covering a wide range of people management issues.
• You will be responsible for leading the HR requirements for this significant workforce change project.
• It will be key for you to ensure appropriate consultation and involvement with staff, trade unions and partner organisations.
• Using your experience and knowledge you will be an expert in solving problems to be able to deliver solutions which work for our customers and are legally compliant and mitigate risk.
• Regularly, you will assist with job analysis and design in relation to this project and periodically chair validation panels.

What we need from you:

• We require you to be professionally qualified, ideally to Associate CIPD (intermediate level) or have an equivalent level of experience in a similar role.  
• It is essential you have proven, contemporary HR delivery experience and sound technical expertise in employee relations legislation, casework practice and change management principles, ideally gained within a complex operating environment.
• You must have excellent written and spoken communication skills to provide robust advice and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• You will be trained in job evaluation methodology, Hay preferable (or willingness to be trained in Hay methodology), and be able to chair validation panels.
• Given the elements of this role, you will have effective reasoning and analytical skills and the ability to form sound judgements to give well-reasoned advice.  

What you need to know:

• Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
• This is a limited term contract, due to end 1st June 2026.
• We are also offering this as an internal secondment opportunity, you should first seek your line managers permission before applying.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home. 

 

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 4th November 2025. 

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. 
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.   
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.  
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.   

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.  

 

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.         
We’re making a difference, be part of it!      
To view the full job description, please click this link: Senior HR Advisor - CW&C - Job Description

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