Job description:

Contract to start ASAP until 01-05-26 with a possible extension.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced HR professional to provide expert people relationship advice and support across a portfolio of services. Working in close partnership with managers and leaders, you will help build positive employee relationships, increase engagement, and support the delivery of high-quality services that achieve positive outcomes for residents.

This role operates as a trusted HR partner, offering pragmatic, legally sound, and values-led advice. You will work flexibly across service areas as priorities require and play a key role in embedding inclusive, relational, and restorative people practices across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert HR advice on employment legislation and best practice, including complex casework, organisational change, workforce planning, pay and reward, job evaluation, learning and development, and Employment Tribunals
• Support and resolve complex employee relations issues, helping to de-risk people management decisions
• Promote inclusive, relational, and restorative approaches to people management
• Provide people data, insight, research, and best-practice guidance to support evidence-based decision making
• Build and maintain effective relationships with managers, senior leaders, Trade Unions, staff networks, and key stakeholders
• Support the design and delivery of people and inclusion projects across services
• Coach and support managers through training, workshops, and day-to-day advice
• Contribute to the development and implementation of people policies, procedures, and guidance
• Act on behalf of the People Relationship Lead when required

About You

• Strong working knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice
• CIPD qualified or equivalent professional HR experience
• Committed to inclusive, relational, and restorative approaches
• Confident communicator with strong influencing and relationship-building skills
• Analytical, solution-focused, and comfortable working in a complex environment
• Able to work collaboratively across teams and organisational boundaries

Additional Information

• No line management responsibility (occasional coaching/mentoring of HR colleagues may be required)
• Hybrid working, with an expectation of working on average two days per week in Camden

This is an opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking People and Inclusion division, supporting a culture built on trust, empathy, learning, and collaboration.

Disclaimer: On applying for this vacancy, you agree that your personal details will be passed onto our client for their consideration of your suitability for the role. I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to notify iWork Recruitment Limited of any hirer who I do not want my details to be passed onto.

RQ1680284-01-26