HR Adviser

Job Title: HR Adviser
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Salary: £44,686 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Location: Finsbury Park, London N4
This role is based at the employer's Head Office in Finsbury Park with some flexibility to work from home for one day per week after a successful probation period.

This housing association is looking for an experienced, people focused HR Adviser (they call this role a People and Culture Adviser to join their small team and play a key role in delivering high quality, generalist HR support across the organisation.

This is a varied, hands-on role where you'll work closely with managers and colleagues, providing sound advice across the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding through to employee relations, performance management, policy implementation and learning & development. You'll be a trusted adviser, confidently balancing best practice with a pragmatic, solutions focused approach while using sound judgement skills.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a small, but supportive, People and Culture Team working on all aspects of generalist HR advice and support. You should be a resilient, professionally curious person who enjoys working independently as well as part of a small team.

You will work closely with the Head of People and Culture in a generalist capacity, to support with continuous improvement across all areas of P&C work, while helping to support and achieve the organisation's organisational objectives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing first-line, advisory support to managers on a wide range of ER matters, including disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and performance.
• Independently managing ER casework end-to-end, ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent and legally compliant.
• Supporting recruitment and selection activity, including advising on job design and interviews.
• Coordinating onboarding and probation processes, helping new starters feel supported and role-ready from day one.
• Assisting with the development, review and implementation of HR policies and procedures aligned to acas best practice.
• Maintaining accurate HR records and supporting reporting using the employer's HR system, Cezanne.
• Contributing to organisational projects such as wellbeing, engagement, EDI and culture.

You

The employer is seeking a proactive and committed individual with strong interpersonal skills who can provide an excellent, customer-focused service to employees, managers, and senior leaders. This is a busy and varied role, so they are looking for someone who likes working in a fast-paced environment while ensuring consistency and accuracy alongside considering and minimising risks.

The organisation needs you to come with:

• Proven experience in a generalist HR role.
• Solid working knowledge of UK employment law and confidence handling ER cases.
• Confidence in advising and influencing managers at different levels.
• Excellent communication skills, with a professional, empathetic and nonjudgemental approach.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• CIPD qualification (or working towards), or equivalent experience.
• A great sense of humour will serve you in good stead, and your sound judgement skills will be second to none.

About The Employer

The employer is a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. They have a brand new strategy that you will help them meet the objectives. Their ambition is for the communities they are anchored in and exist to serve, and they have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times they know they'll achieve nothing unless they are equally ambitious for their own people.

The employer strives to be a values led organisation and make them at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions.

The organisation can't be a brilliant landlord if they don't partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them?

If you're a capable and enthusiastic HR generalist who enjoys variety, challenge and making a positive difference, the organisation would love to hear from you.

Staff Benefits

The employer offers you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years' service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits They have a health cash plan, and will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.

Inclusion and Diversity

The employer wants the organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents.

Deadline: 09:00 Monday 27 April 2026
Interview: 12 May 2026

Interested?

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