East Sussex County Council Hiring for HR Consultant – Advisory at Lewes Full Time

For an informal discussion, please contact Tracey Harwood – HR Manager on 01273 335843 or Triona White – HR Manager on 01273 481764

Do you have excellent communication skills, the ability to build strong relationships and the passion to deliver outstanding customer service using your HR expertise?

Are you looking for a challenge that enables you to utilise your significant HR knowledge, expertise and judgement to provide an exceptionally professional HR Advisory service?

Are you looking to develop your career or find a new opportunity within a large organisation and experience a wide range of different and challenging work?

Do you have excellent influencing skills and the ability to work with team members and a wide range of customers who are seeking solutions?

Are you able to juggle constantly changing priorities and demonstrate resilience in a very fast paced environment?

This is an exciting time to join us. The service has played a vital role in helping the council and its external customers meet the challenges of recent times, and will continue to provide key insight and advice to help the organisations move forward in equally challenging times. We pride ourselves on being a modern, forward-thinking service, and are well placed to ensure that ESCC continues to be a great place to work. If you have the skills and passion necessary to help support this process, we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will be fully supported by our collaborative team to learn about the organisation and our customers and you will be able to work flexibly through being able to work from home as well as coming into the office. You will be expected to deliver a professional HR service to managers across the Council and to our schools and academy customers. You will work within a large team of employee relations specialists as well as being supported by experts from across the department, to build the capacity of line managers to resolve people management issues effectively and professionally within a busy environment. These will include disciplinary, grievance, capability, restructuring as well as advising on issues around pay and terms and conditions.

Additional Information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.

Work Permits: we may be able to obtain a Work Permit for this post but this is subject to meeting the requirements of the UK Border Agency’s Points-based Immigration System.

Due to the restrictions we cannot guarantee that individuals that meet the requirements of the Points-based Immigration System will be issued with clearance to obtain work permits.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, due to disability, to enable you to participate fully in the process please contact the hiring manager on the contact details above.

Reasonable adjustments include things like an offline application form. If you would like to discuss your requirements further, please get in touch.

Equal Opportunities

East Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. All applications are treated on merit.

Job reference

orbis/TP/167648/27057

Location

Lewes

Salary

£30,112 to £36,429

Closing date

25 September 2022

Organisation

East Sussex County Council

Department

Business Services

Contract type

Permanent

Work pattern

Full Time

Hours

37

Job type

Human Resources