People Advisor - Temporary (up to 18 months)
Salary £34,893 to £41,050 (Dependent on experience) Contract type Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Hours Full Time Additional information 37 hours per week Location Poole, Dorset, England Location description Hybrid working arrangement between home and Poole support centre Interview date 9th and 10th April 2026 Closing Date 29-03-2026 Reference 21332 Documents (please view all documents)
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About us
Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
We’re looking for a People Adviser to join our People Partnering Team. The People Partnering Team supports the RNLI through the provision of customer focussed comprehensive and pragmatic HR advice and support to managers, employees, and volunteers in line with organisational policies, procedures and legal requirements.
Some of the benefits
3. Salary £34,893 to £41,050 (Dependent on experience)
4. Flexible working
5. 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
6. Outstanding pension scheme
7. Life assurance
Your role
As a People Adviser, you will be tasked with focus on the following areas:
8. Providing coaching support, guidance, and employee relations solutions to our managers across the UK and Ireland.
9. Be an expert, operating alongside senior leaders to ensure casework is managed effectively and efficiently.
10. Manage a varied mix of disciplinary, grievance, capability, and absence cases; ensuring advice is in line with organisational policies and procedures as well as a range of HR projects.
11. The ability to develop and maintaining collaborative and productive relationships with a wide variety of individuals, staff and volunteers, and teams.
About you
You will be committed to providing excellent customer service and be able to research, analyse, reason logically and effectively within tight and conflicting timeframes. You will be able to create and maintain effective working relationships with people at all levels and have a proactive approach when handling sensitive or confidential information thoughtfully.
To be considered as a People Adviser you will need:
12. To be tenacious and confident in your HR and legal knowledge
13. Be resilient and be able to hold your own in challenging conversations.
14. Have experience of managing change activities and restructures.
15. Hold a minimum of Level 5 CIPD with experience
Desirable:
16. Experience in reward practice, including job evaluation systems.
Other organisations may call this role; People Adviser, HR Adviser
So, as a People Adviser you will have a sound understanding and a proven track record of the practical application of policies and procedures. Previous experience of reviewing and updating internal policies in line with external changes in employment legislation will be crucial to this role. If you have the ability to organise your own time and workload to ensure advice is prioritised then this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.