HR Consultant (Senior HR Advisor / Junior HR Business Partner) UK876675/LI
10 days ago
Fleet
HR Consultant Hybrid | 3 days office‑based + client sites Morgan Philips are delighted to be exclusively representing a growing HR consultancy in the search for a high‑calibre HR Consultant to join their high‑performing team. This is a fast‑paced, client‑facing role suited to a confident and commercially astute HR professional who can operate with a high degree of autonomy. You will be expected to provide clear, legally sound and pragmatic advice across a wide range of complex employee relations scenarios, acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders. The Role • Deliver a professional, outsourced HR service to a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple sectors, • Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, directors and senior leaders, influencing decision‑making with commercially grounded HR guidance, • Independently lead and manage complex, high‑risk employee relations cases end‑to‑end, including disciplinaries, grievances, capability, absence, redundancy and TUPE, • Provide clear, confident and legally robust advice, identifying and mitigating employment law risks while balancing commercial outcomes, • Own ER case strategy, including decision‑making around escalation, dismissal risk, and alternative outcomes, • Lead redundancy consultations, including scoping, pooling, selection criteria, and managing challenge from employees, • Navigate sensitive and complex cases involving overlapping risks (e.g. performance, health conditions, discrimination concerns), • Prepare high‑quality documentation including outcome letters, policies, contracts and case reports to a consistently strong standard, • Embed yourself within client organisations where required, building credibility and long‑term relationships, • Support wider HR activity including performance management, organisational change, talent and engagement initiatives, • Contribute to business development activity, proposals and client presentations, • Deliver training to clients on ER, employment law updates and best practice About You • Proven HR generalist experience within a consultancy or highly client‑facing HRBP environment, • Demonstrable track record of independently managing complex and high‑risk ER casework, with clear ownership of outcomes, • Strong and up‑to‑date knowledge of UK employment law, with the confidence to apply this in practice and articulate risk clearly, • Able to provide legally sound, commercially pragmatic advice without over‑reliance on escalation, • Experience leading redundancy programmes and consultations, with a clear understanding of your personal remit and decision‑making responsibility, • Comfortable managing a varied caseload, including multiple concurrent ER matters of varying complexity, • Strong judgement and the ability to navigate ambiguity, particularly in sensitive or high‑risk scenarios, • Confident communicator, able to challenge and influence stakeholders and manage pushback effectively, • Highly organised, resilient, and adaptable in a fast‑paced, multi‑client environment, • Fully CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent) Why Apply? • Opportunity to join a growing and ambitious HR consultancy, • High level of autonomy, trust and client exposure, • Varied and intellectually challenging casework, • Clear opportunity for progression as the business scales, • Collaborative and supportive team environment, • Hybrid working with meaningful client interaction Interested? For a confidential discussion, please apply via Morgan Philips.