Senior HR Business Adviser

Role Responsibility

This is a challenging and exciting career opportunity within the HR Team, supporting and enabling our service managers to achieve their business outcomes with confidence and competence.
As a senior HR Adviser you will be confident in operating in an advisory capacity and be able to build and maintain positive relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation to deliver business focused solutions. Engaging with the business to understand their needs, making well informed decisions, as well as developing, implementing and evaluating policies, systems and guidance tools in line with HR and OD Strategy.
Working as part of a collaborative, supportive and customer-focused team, we are seeking someone with substantial experience of providing high-level professional HR and OD advice across a wide range of issues, including employee relations, organisational design, reward, employment policy, equality and diversity, culture, resourcing and pensions. You will have a strong knowledge of employment legislation, terms and conditions, and HR policies and procedures, together with the ability to interpret complex information and communicate it clearly to a range of audiences.
Ideally you will have experience of working within a unionised environment and be competent in developing strong and effective working relationships with all key stakeholders.
You should hold CIPD Level 5 with relevant experience and be willing to work towards Level 7, or already hold CIPD Level 7, MCIPD, or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
If you are motivated by helping managers build confidence, improving people practice and contributing to a values-led organisation, we would welcome your application.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact Charlotte Thornton
charlotte.thornton@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Job Description & Person Specification

Senior HR Business Adviser JD - KSH - September 2025.pdf