Senior HR Business Adviser

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Senior HR Business Adviser

Role Responsibility

This is a challenging and exciting career opportunity within the HR Team, supporting and enabling our service managers to achieve their business outcomes with confidence and competence.

As a senior HR Adviser you will be confident in operating in an advisory capacity and be able to build and maintain positive relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation to deliver business focused solutions. Engaging with the business to understand their needs as well as developing, implementing and evaluating policies, systems and guidance tools in line with HR and OD Strategy.

Working as part of a collaborative, supportive and customer-focused team, you will be required to work on a range of complex projects such as re-organisation, reward, employment policy, resourcing and pensions as well as handling a complex caseload including disciplinary issues or complaints and ensuring that these are managed in accordance with procedures and employment law.

Ideally you will have experience of working within a unionised environment and be competent in developing strong and effective working relationships with all key stakeholders.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will take place during the week commencing 3rd November 2025.

Contact Details

For more information on this role, please contact:

Paula Foster paula.foster@kent.gov.uk

Charlotte Thornton charlotte.thornton@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.