HR Advisor (Maternity Cover – up to 12 months)

🌱 HR Advisor (Maternity Cover – up to 12 months)

Organisation: Energy Saving Trust
Location: Largely remote (UK) with optional offices
Contract: Fixed-term (maternity cover, up to 12 months)

What this role is really about:
This is a hands-on HR Advisor role where you’ll be trusted to give expert, practical advice to managers and employees across the full employee lifecycle. You’ll sit at the heart of people decisions — balancing legal compliance with empathy, coaching, and a genuinely people-first culture.

Key responsibilities:

• Advising managers on sickness absence, performance, grievances, and disciplinaries

• Supporting fair, compliant, and well-run HR processes and hearings

• Driving strong onboarding and induction experiences

• Analysing feedback and sharing insights with HR Business Partners

• Keeping HR practices up to date with employment law and best practice

• Promoting a positive, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture

What they’re looking for:
✔️ Proven experience as an HR Advisor (or similar level)
✔️ Strong employment law knowledge
✔️ Confident communicator who can influence at all levels
✔️ Calm, empathetic, and solution-focused
✔️ Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
✔️ Comfortable handling sensitive and complex people issues

Why this role stands out:
🏡 True flexibility – many people work fully remote
🌍 Purpose-led organisation tackling the climate emergency
🌴 25 days holiday + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave
👶 Enhanced family-friendly policies
💼 Strong pension & life assurance
🚲 Green travel benefits
📚 Ongoing professional development support
💚 Wellbeing allowance

Application tips (important):
⚠️ You must submit an anonymised CV and cover letter
(Name, address, email removed — applications without a cover letter may be rejected)

Who this role is ideal for:

• An experienced HR professional ready for a meaningful, values-led organisation

• Someone returning to work who wants flexibility without stepping back in seniority

• HR Advisors who enjoy coaching managers rather than just policing policies