HR Adviser

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a HR Adviser to join a leading university based in London, supporting schools and professional services. This role is pivotal in delivering high-quality HR advice, ensuring policy compliance, and supporting managers across a wide range of people related activities.

Role information:

-            Salary: £34,610 - £36,636

-            Contract type: Full time, Fixed Term Contract

-            Start date: February

-            Location: Angel

-            Working pattern: Hybrid 3 days on site

-            Department: HR  Directorate

Job profile:

-            Support maternity, paternity, adoption and sickness absence processes, including monitoring entitlements and coordinating Occupational Health where needed

-            Manage end‑of‑employment processes such as resignation, retirement and redundancy, including exit interviews and documentation

-            Advise managers on disciplinary, grievance and capability cases and support investigations and hearings

-            Coordinate recruitment activity, including job description reviews, interview support, and ensuring timely completion of pre‑employment checks

-            Support Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) applications, liaising with the Home Office and advising managers where required

-            Contribute to job evaluation processes, organising and participating in panel assessments when needed

-            Produce accurate HR documentation throughout the employee lifecycle, ensuring consistency with HR standards and timeframes

-            Contribute to HR projects, policy updates, process improvements and HR web page development

Candidate profile:

-            Experience providing HR advisory support in a large, complex organisation, ideally within a unionised environment

-            Strong experience across employee relations, absence management, recruitment and general HR lifecycle processes

-            Experience working with HR systems (ideally Oracle), including generating reports and management information

-            Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage challenging situations and communicate clearly all levels

-            Strong written skills, including drafting HR correspondence and documentation in line with policy standards

This vacancy will be actively shortlisted, so early applications are encouraged to avoid missing out.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all candidates.