Senior HR Advisor

Our client, a leading organisation is seeking a highly credible Senior HR Advisor to deliver specialist advisory support in Herefordshire. You will be joining a supportive, multi-disciplinary team where you will have the autonomy to manage your own portfolio while contributing to the wider growth of a respected HR function. As the new Senior HR Advisor, you'll join a culture that values professional development, innovation, and a commitment to high-quality customer care.

What you’ll be doing:

This is an autonomous role for a solution-focused advisor who enjoys building deep-rooted relationships and providing expert guidance on complex people matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted consultant providing high-quality advice on the full range of HR matters, including employment law, safeguarding, and terms and conditions.
• Complex Casework: Lead and manage end-to-end casework including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, and complex absence cases, acting as the employer’s representative.
• Organisational Change: Provide transformational advice on change management programmes, including redundancy, restructuring.
• Policy & Development: Lead the development of HR policies ensuring they are fit for purpose, legally compliant.
• Commercial Growth: Proactively identify new business opportunities, demonstrating the value-add of HR services to existing and prospective clients.
• Training & Coaching: Design and deliver bespoke HR training for leaders on topics such as recruitment, safer recruitment, and performance management.

What you’ll need:

• Professional Qualification: CIPD Level 7 is highly desirable. We also welcome applications from candidates with significant equivalent experience who are currently working toward their qualifications.
• Sector Expertise Experience within the Education sector.
• Working Pattern & Location agility: This is a hybrid role with a high degree of remote flexibility. However, due to the nature of the service, candidates must reside within commutable distance of the region to provide on-site support and attend urgent face-to-face meetings at schools when required.

What you’ll get in return:

• Generous Annual Leave: 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service up to 31 days.
• Flexible Leave Options: Access to a holiday buy-and-sell scheme to help you balance work and life.
• Market-Leading Pension: An enhanced scheme
• Financial Security: Life Assurance, an annual performance bonus and a commitment to annual salary reviews
• Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive wellbeing hub featuring high-street discounts, retail perks, and a Cycle to Work scheme.
• Culture & Connection: A vibrant social calendar, including dedicated summer and Christmas events to celebrate team success.

If of interest, please apply for a confidential discussion. Pineapple Recruitment Ltd is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client and is acting as a Preferred Recruitment Agency