HR Advisor
This is a Full Time/Flexible Working, Permanent vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
We’re looking for an experienced, proactive HR Advisor to join Wates Property Services across our North & Central region. You’ll be a trusted partner to managers and employees, championing fair, consistent, and legally compliant people practices while helping us embed excellent HR standards across our operations.
This is a role where your expertise truly shapes outcomes. Leading TUPE activity and managing high‑volume ER cases will be central to your success so if you thrive in fast‑paced, people‑focused environments, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Acting as a go‑to HR partner, providing clear, practical advice across the full employee lifecycle—from performance and absence to redundancy, redeployment, and best‑practice people management.
- Leading the delivery of TUPE transfers, consultations, and wider change programmes.
- Managing a high volume of ER cases, ensuring fair, timely, confident handling of disciplinary, grievance, capability and appeal matters.
- Supporting the design, communication and rollout of updated HR policies and procedures, including briefings and training.
- Coaching line managers, HR Operations and People Directors on applying HR policy, process and employment legislation in real‑world situations.
- Building strong working relationships with external legal partners and Occupational Health to ensure their expertise is effectively utilised.
- Maintaining confidentiality and professionalism at all times, while driving your own ongoing development.
What You’ll Bring
- Knowledge: Up‑to‑date employment law, solid understanding of HR processes, and confidence working with people metrics.
- Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience managing high‑volume employee relations cases.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including drafting outcome letters.
- Experience supporting complex hearings and advising managers through sensitive matters.
- A track record of driving improvements and supporting change.
- High levels of integrity, discretion and a customer‑focused mindset.
- Essential: Demonstrable experience leading TUPE delivery and consultation.
- Qualifications: CIPD qualified (or equivalent).
Where you’ll work
This role sits within our WPS North & Central region. You can be based at Redditch or another WPS site office in the Midlands, with hybrid working (3 days a week in the office) and travel across the region to support local teams.
Please note: We reserve the right to close the advert early at any stage of the recruitment process should we receive sufficient applications
Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.
To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
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