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HR Advisor \n\nDepartment: Human Resources\n\nSalary: Starting from £30,805, rising to £37,174\n\nClosing date: Sunday 27 July 2025\n\nWe have an exciting, fixed term opportunity for a proactive and highly organised HR Advisor in the HR Service Delivery team to support the delivery of an efficient and effective ER service. You will join a busy advisory team who are responsible for providing clear, outcome focused HR advice to line managers and individuals. \n\nThe role of HR Advisor at the University of Bath is a varied and interesting one working with a range of stakeholders based in Faculties and Professional Services Departments.
You will work closely with the matrix team and HR Business Partners in order to deliver a timely and legally compliant service as well as working with our colleagues in Reward, Workforce Development, Culture and Inclusion and Safety, Health and Wellbeing. \n\nAbout the role\n\nThe aim of the role is to enable excellent people management practice and build the capability of individuals, teams and departments to meet the University’s and the department’s objectives. The role will support designated business areas, developing effective working relationships with key stakeholders, whilst working for and alongside HR Business Partners.\n\nThe HR Advisor will support the delivery of the HR Strategy and work in such a way that supports pace, innovation and customer service in HR service delivery.
\n\nAbout you\n\n- CIPD qualified or equivalent\n- Effective knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice and its practical application appropriate to a generalist advisor role\n- Proven experience of delivering outcome- and customer-focused HR advice and guidance\n- Strong communication and relationship building skills\n- Able to advise, support and coach managers to manage employee relations issues effectively\n\nFurther information: \n\nThis HR Advisor position is available on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected end date of 30/06/2026.\n\nFor an informal discussion about the role please contact Carol Jess, however, please submit your application via the University website.\n\nWe consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality, receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university.
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.\n\nWe're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. \n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\nWe're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:\n\n- Free counselling services through Health Assured\n- Cycle to work scheme\n- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme\n- Staff discount at Team Bath gym\n- Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees\n- Staff discount on language courses\n- Generous employer contributory pension schemes\n- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance\n- A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more\n- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath\n- Local discounts and more\n- A family-friendly workplace \n- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce\n- Relocation allowance\n- Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses\n\nFind out more about our benefits and watch the video via the apply button to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us on X and LinkedIn.\n\nWe are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.