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Senior HR Advisor

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  • Job Title: Senior HR Advisor
  • Location: Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 3SG (office based)
  • Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

About the job

As Senior HR Advisor you will provideexpert, pragmatic advice to managersand colleagues across the business, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant people management practices. You will play a key role in managing complex employee relations matters, supporting organisational change, and promoting a positive and inclusive employee experience.

This role will involve:

    • Acting as the lead advisor on complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management, performance, bullying and harassment, and redundancy processes
    • Providing timely, commercially sound advice to managers on ER issues, ensuring alignment with employment law, internal policies, and best practice
    • Managing escalated or high-risk ER cases, balancing legal risk, employee wellbeing, and business priorities
    • Supporting organisational change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE, and consultation processes
    • Identifying ER trends and root causes, providing insights and recommendations to reduce risk and improve engagement
    • Reviewing, interpreting and applying HR policies consistently across the organisation
    • Supporting the development and implementation of HR policies, procedures, and manager toolkits
    • Building manager capability through coaching, guidance, and delivery of ER-related training
    • Acting as a mentor to junior HR colleagues, sharing ER knowledge and best practice
    • Producing ER metrics and reports to inform decision-making
    • Contributing to continuous improvement of HR processes and employee experience

About you

It's important to us that you are passionate about what you do and committed to delivering a pragmatic HR service that balances empathy with commercial and legal considerations.

Our ideal Senior HR Advisor will:

    • Demonstrate experience of managing complex and sensitive ER cases independently
    • Have a strong working knowledge of employment law
    • Show excellent influencing, coaching and stakeholder management skills
    • Be a confident communicator with strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Hold a level 5 CIPD qualification or have equivalent experience

As a national company some travel will be required in this role, therefore access to a vehicle and a valid UK driver's licence is required.

How you'll be rewarded

By joining Churchill Living you will be part of a Company that really cares, and we are proud to offer a wide range of benefits including:

  • Competitive salary
  • 24 days holiday plus the opportunity to buy more or sell it
  • Day off on your birthday
  • Company pension contribution
  • Wellbeing support including Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
  • Health screening
  • Discretionary sick pay
  • Group life assurance
  • Charity fund matching
  • Long service awards and peer to peer recognition scheme
  • Professional development
  • And much, much more!

About us

We are Churchill Living, the leading provider of housing that offers freedom, independence, and unrivalled living value for the over 60s, and we're looking for people like you!

As a family-run, privately-owned business we have a strong culture built on trust and integrity. We're proud of what we do, and the people we work with, and we believe in giving something back to the communities where we operate. Our success is built on our fantastic team of more than 700 Colleagues across the country, which is growing all the time.

We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality apartments in desirable locations across the country for those looking for greater freedom and independence. Our developments are designed to provide safety, support and a sense of community for our Customers to enjoy, ensuring peace of mind for them and their families.

We are proud to have been voted a Sunday Times Top 10 'Best Places to Work' based on our Colleague feedback. Not only that, but we've won a host of industry awards including the prestigious Housebuilder of the Year at the WhatHouse? Awards.

If you want to be a part of an ambitious and successful business which values and appreciates its people, click apply today.

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Senior HR Advisor

Churchill Retirement PLC
Ringwood, UK
Full-Time

Published on 05/02/2026

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