Senior People Advisor, Band 6
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing expert support and guidance on employee relations processes, ensuring timely and compliant resolutions. You will contribute to developing professional knowledge within the People Advisory Team and promote a restorative, just, and learning culture across HR practices. The position supports managers and staff in interpreting employment terms, policies, and legislation, and handles casework related to discipline, capability, grievance, and sickness absence. It also includes supporting change management and undertaking project work.
Essential criteria
- CIPD Level 5 and willing to or working towards CIPD Level 7
- Evidence of recent CPD
Desirable criteria
- Degree level education or equivalent
- Associate Member CIPD
- Operational HR advisory role
- Policy Development
- Interpreting and advising on terms and conditions, policies and procedures
- Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Delivering a diverse HR service to meet the needs of the business
- A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law and demonstrable experience of its pragmatic application
- Qualities
- Ability to mix with a wide range of people and form relationships quickly
- CIPD Level 5 and willing to or working towards CIPD Level 7
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Degree level education or equivalent
- Associate Member CIPD
- Operational HR advisory role
- Policy Development
- Interpreting and advising on terms and conditions, policies and procedures
- Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Delivering a diverse HR service to meet the needs of the business
- A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law and demonstrable experience of its pragmatic application
- Qualities
- Ability to mix with a wide range of people and form relationships quickly
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior People Advisor, Band 6
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
You will be able to provide expert support and guidance to employee relations processes within the Trust, supporting managers, staff and colleagues to deliver timely, just and compliant resolutions of cases. We are in the process of introducing a restorative, just and learning culture, across all are HR practices and processes. We capture and analyse employee relations data in order to identify to the Business Partners trends within their areas of responsibility for intervention.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of professional knowledge and practice across the People Advisory Team, supporting colleagues to develop their skills and professional capability. Promote and embed a Restorative, Just and Learning Culture (RJLC) approach across people casework, ensuring practice is consistent, reflective and focused on learning and improvement.
About us
The People Advisory Team is part of the People & OD Department which includes People Operational Services, Leadership and OD, Recruitment, and Professional Education. Our team provides a People Advisory service focusing on employee relation casework, and production of key employee relation statistics, but also encompassing reward and retention
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