People Advisor

Are you a confident and collaborative HR professional ready for your next challenge?

We’re looking for an experienced People Advisor to join our fun, supportive and high-performing People Team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working at pace, can confidently influence and challenge, and is passionate about creating a brilliant people experience.

As a People Advisor, you’ll play a key role in delivering a high-quality advisory service across the firm. Operating at Business Partner level, you’ll work closely with managers, Partners and employees to shape people practices, drive continuous improvement and support a positive and engaging culture.

If you thrive in a friendly, collaborative team and enjoy building trusted relationships, we’d love to hear from you.

What will I be doing?

You will:

• Provide high-quality advice, guidance and support across the full range of People activities, including absence, performance, employee relations and change management.
• Coach and guide managers—helping them make confident, informed decisions and constructively challenging where needed.
• Assess risk and escalate issues appropriately, ensuring timely and accurate advice.
• Support the delivery of the People Business Plan and contribute to culture, leadership, performance, reward and capability-building projects.
• Work closely with the Head of People and People Manager to ensure seamless collaboration within the wider People Team.
• Contribute to policy and process development, ensuring our approach remains compliant, modern and effective.
• Analyse people data and metrics to spot trends, influence decisions and drive performance improvements.
• Prepare clear, regular reports to support firm-wide decision making.
• Deliver engaging inductions and support a great onboarding experience for new joiners.
• Partner with the Recruitment Manager on end-to-end hiring for experienced lateral roles, ensuring a smooth, innovative and candidate-focused recruitment process.

What we’re looking for

You will have:

• Demonstrable employee relations experience at Advisor or HR Business Partner level.
• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent experience).
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility across all levels.
• Experience leading or contributing to HR/People projects with measurable outcomes.
• A genuine interest in people data and using insights to drive decisions.
• Confidence working both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Resilience, sound judgement, and the ability to challenge constructively and influence outcomes.
• A proactive approach and a passion for continuous improvement.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health & wellbeing benefits
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our offices.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference HR.1225.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.