HCR Law
HR Consultant
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About The Role
We are seeking an experienced HR professional who enjoys variety, complexity, and the opportunity to work with different organisations. This could be the role for you. Our HR Consultancy team combines practical people expertise with employment law insight, helping clients tackle everything from day-to-day HR challenges through to business-critical strategic projects.
About The Team
Our HR Consultancy team sits within HCR’s Employment and Immigration team, providing organisations with practical, commercially focused support across the full employee lifecycle.
By combining HR expertise with legal insight, we help clients navigate everything from day-to-day HR challenges through to complex organisational change, workplace investigations, and strategic workforce projects.
As our consultancy offering continues to grow, we are looking for a HR consultant who is passionate about HR and project management. We are looking for someone who enjoys working closely with clients and has experience in playing a key role in delivering integrated HR and legal solutions.
About The Role
This role will offer variety, and no two days will look quite the same.
You will be a trusted adviser to a varied portfolio of clients, providing practical HR support that helps organisations manage their people effectively. From supporting managers with employee relations matters to supporting or leading the implementation of organisational change on the ground, you’ll be involved in a broad range of interesting and often complex projects.
Working closely with employment lawyers, you’ll provide joined-up advice that combines commercial HR expertise with an understanding of the employment law landscape alongside an in-depth knowledge of the client.
Your work is likely to include:
- Working directly with clients through project-based assignments/secondments, giving you genuine insight into the organisations you support. This can include being seconded directly into a client’s HR function to either lead or support the implementation of HR projects on the ground.
- Advising clients on employee relations matters.
- Leading workplace investigations and mediation assignments that will include complex and sensitive matters.
- Drafting and reviewing contracts of employment, policies, handbooks, and HR documentation.
- Supporting restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, and organisational change projects.
- Advising on disciplinary, grievance, capability, and absence management processes.
- Delivering client training, workshops, and employment law updates.
- Contributing to business development for the HR Consultancy team both internally and externally.
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Qualifications And Experience
We are interested in speaking with experienced HR professionals who enjoy building trusted relationships and providing pragmatic advice that makes a real difference to clients.
You will bring:
- CIPD Level 5 (HR Consultant) or CIPD Level 6 & (Senior HR Consultant) qualification or equivalent.
- Strong generalist HR experience gained within consultancy, advisory, or business partnering environments. You will demonstrate experience in project-based work.
- A solid understanding of UK employment law and its practical application.
- Experience managing employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, and absence cases.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ideally, you will have experience leading projects, advising senior stakeholders, and supporting the development of others.
Why Join?
You will be joining a collaborative and ambitious team where you will have the opportunity to work across varied and challenging projects, build meaningful client relationships, and develop your expertise across both HR and employment law.
About Us
Benefits of working with us:
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Flu vaccinations
What does HCR believe, achieve, and stand for?
As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 70, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders, and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service, we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.
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With eleven offices in England and Wales, our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff, and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons has led to the addition of two new office locations (Northampton and Milton Keynes), and even further growth in London and Cambridge.
With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.
At HCR, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.
We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.
A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible, will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership.
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