Opportunity
We’re looking for a People Advisor who is passionate about creating great employee experiences, enabling high performance, and shaping a modern People & Culture function. If you are currently a People Advisor in People Ops and you want to take the next step in your career, we want to meet you.
Qualifications
- 2‑3+ years of people advisory experience, partnering with stakeholders across the business.
- Modern, collaborative People & Culture mindset.
- Hands‑on, execution‑driven approach – you like getting things done.
- Strong organisation and resilience, managing multiple priorities with confidence.
- Comfort with ambiguity and change in a high‑growth environment.
- Excellent communication skills, empathy, and the ability to build trust quickly.
- Proactive, ownership‑driven mindset.
- Commitment to personal development and continuous learning.
- Strong UK employment law knowledge and high attention to detail.
- Tech‑savvy and experience optimising digital tools and platforms.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- People Advisory – Partner with leaders to build positive, high‑performing and inclusive environments: provide pragmatic advice across performance, capability, restructuring, redundancy, family leave, flexible working; enable leaders to manage sensitive situations well and make sound, legally compliant decisions aligned with UK employment law; build strong working relationships through proactive guidance, early intervention and ongoing support.
- People Operations – Own and deliver core people processes across the employee lifecycle:
- End‑to‑end onboarding through to off‑boarding.
- High‑quality documentation, reporting, and audits.
- Managing shared inboxes and acting as a reliable operational point of contact.
- Process Optimisation – Refine and improve people processes, streamlining workflows and enhancing employee experience.
- Change Management – Support and deliver change initiatives, partnering with leaders to embed new ways of working.
- People Frameworks & Policies – Help create and update policies aligned with best practice.
- People Initiatives – Contribute to key projects across the people roadmap, designing and delivering initiatives that drive engagement and performance.
- Upskilling Leaders – Support the development of people leaders, helping them to build high‑performing teams.
What You’ll Gain
- Exposure and expertise within a scaling environment.
- Variety – no two days look the same.
- Autonomy and responsibility from day one.
- Professional growth through close collaboration with experienced People leaders across Slater Heelis and Lawfront.
- Experience across the full employee lifecycle.
- The chance to make a meaningful impact on engagement, performance, and firm‑wide success.
Who We Are
Slater Heelis is a leading full‑service law firm with a long‑established reputation for exceptional client service, deep expertise, and a people‑first culture. Based in Manchester, we are proud of our heritage and of how we are evolving as a regional leader within Lawfront, accelerating growth, innovation, and creating long‑term value for our clients and people.
Perks & Benefits
- Flexible time off – 25 days annual leave + 1 day for birthday + 8 bank holidays + additional days for 3‑, 5‑ and 10‑year anniversary.
- Career progress – support for career progression within the firm.
- Agile working.
- Life & Income Protection Insurance.
- Wellbeing support package – 24‑hour virtual GP service, virtual GP appointments, Employee Assistance Programme, mental health support including free CBT or counselling sessions, nutritional support sessions, individual physiotherapy consultations and 1‑2‑1 lifestyle coaching including a 360‑wellbeing assessment.
- Up to 4% matched pension contributions.
- Community – sociable community of like‑minded professionals with regular on‑site and off‑site socials and events.
- Critical illness insurance.
- Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme and Tech discount scheme.
- Health cash plan – reimbursement for routine or regular healthcare treatments such as eye care, dental treatment or physiotherapy.
- Discounted gym partnerships.
- Up to £5,000 (less tax & NI) bonus for each referred candidate who passes probation.
- Benefits portal enabling you to purchase an array of other benefits via salary sacrifice, such as buying and selling annual leave, season ticket loans, and travel insurance.
- Enhanced family‑friendly provisions including maternity and paternity provisions.
Legal & Employment
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas for this position. In addition, as part of our screening process, we will be conducting basic DBS checks on successful candidates.
