Employee Relations Consultant

Job Type: Fixed Term Contract (9 months)

Location: This is a hybrid role; you will be required to go into your local office from time to time (Edinburgh, Birmingham or Telford), but you will have the flexibility to work predominantly from home should you want to.

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: Monday 6th April 2026

Salary and benefits: Up to £50,000 DOE plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Meet the team: Kate Wells will be hosting a virtual open forum on Thursday 26th March 2026 at 12pm if you would like to hear more about this opportunity.

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The role

We're looking for an expert Employee Relations Consultant to lead and deliver complex organisational transformation programmes. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you'll shape, guide, and execute people related change with precision, professionalism, and legal integrity.

• Lead redundancy and consultation activity, including business case development, selection criteria, redeployment strategies, and overall colleague experience.
• Partner with HRBPs and senior leaders to shape people led change, ensuring a high quality colleague experience within a fair, safe, and compliant framework.
• Provide expert, risk based advice rooted in strong knowledge of employment law, case law, regulation, and best practice to enable clear, confident decision making.
• Act as the lead consultant on ER implications of organisational change, ensuring decisions are commercially sound, compliant, and consistently applied.
• Coach leaders through complex and sensitive change, building capability and supporting decisive, informed leadership.
• Monitor evolving legislation and case law, proactively adjusting processes and advising stakeholders on required changes.

You'll partner closely with:

• People Leaders across the business
• HR Directors, Business Partners, and the wider People Leadership Team
• Other HR centres of excellence such as Reward, Payroll and Talent Acquisition
• External providers including our preferred outplacement support provision

What are we looking for?

• Track record of leading impactful redundancy and restructuring programmes, delivering fair, compliant, and effective consultation and selection outcomes.
• Demonstrable expertise in UK employment law, with the ability to apply it confidently and pragmatically. Experience navigating regulatory requirements is advantageous but not essential.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing ability, shaping decisions and guiding HRBPs and senior leaders through complex organisational change.
• Delivers clear, confident, risk based ER advice that enables leaders to act decisively during transformation.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

We're reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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