Lead Consultant - HR Advisory

Job introduction

We are seeking HR professionals to join our team to support change management projects which will improve the customer and employee relations experience and support the Council’s ambition to be an organisation that is connected to its residents and the city we serve.

Your role, if appointed, will be to support our managers by providing HR guidance and comprehensive support to managers, focussing on employee relations issues. You will be providing on the ground support to managers in our Housing, Repairs and Maintenance Team and you will be expected to be onsite with the managers a minimum of 3 days per week.

Fixed term for: 9 Months - End Date 21st July 2026

This role is available as a secondment to internal applicants in line with our secondment policy. Before applying, please ensure you have read the Secondment policy to ensure you are eligible to apply. In accordance with the policy, please ensure you have the written approval of your line manager before applying. Evidence of this must be included with your application.

For an informal discussion, please contact Dylan Moorcraft - HR Manager on 07712 411831.

About the role

Lead HR Consultants provide managers with consistent, pragmatic and effective advice on the management and resolution of people issues, mitigating risk to the organisation whilst optimising resources to deliver highly effective and creative solutions.

You will need to work in partnership with managers to establish an understanding of their service and the challenges they face. You will be engaging and consulting with key stakeholders including trade unions and employees.

You will be passionate about delivering outcomes, optimising the flow of work and ensuring quality and accuracy.

Strong organisational skills are a must, with the ability to plan and keep up to date with actions on multiple change projects, keeping to deadlines.

What you can expect:

Brighton & Hove City Council serves a vibrant city by the sea – a place that has ambitions to be a fairer city with a more sustainable future.

As a service, HROD’s role is central to decision making with an established place on the Corporate Leadership Team. We take our responsibilities as an employer seriously and that makes working in HROD in Brighton & Hove exciting, at times challenging and always interesting.

We are a friendly, talented, hard-working team who have experienced rapid change over the past two years in the ways we deliver our services.

As a council, we want our staff to be themselves at work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community but particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as LGB, male or trans as these groups are currently under-represented in our HROD workforce.

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance) and Shortlisting questions guidance as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).