Senior HR Adviser

Senior HR Adviser (HR Advisory Team)

Are you looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to develop your HR career?

Our HR Advisory Team currently have a great opportunity to join them as a Senior HR Adviser. Our Advisory Team are part of the HR service at NYC primarily providing an HR enquiry service via phone and email and HR casework support to all of the directorates within North Yorkshire Council plus a number of external customers. The team also undertake a number of other activities including delivering manager skills sessions around key elements of our HR policies and support our HR Business Partner Teams in delivering restructures and service change.

We are a busy front‑facing team based at County Hall in Northallerton but work in a hybrid way with opportunities to also work from home and/or other council offices as appropriate. The ability to travel across the county to deliver our service when required is however essential.

The team sits as part of North Yorkshire Council’s high performing HR and OD Service and we are very proud to have recently won the 2025 PPMA Public Sector HR and OD Team of the Year, the PPMA Gold award as well as a recent award for HR and Payroll provider of the year from Education Today.

Our Senior HR Adviser role is varied, challenging, and rewarding role within a fast paced but highly supportive team.

As a Senior HR Adviser you will be responsible for a number of key areas;

• 1.Lead on more complex casework.
• 2.Hold a lead portfolio of one of our Directorates being the conduit for sharing information between the HR Advisory Team and the HRBP Team.
• 3.Lead on a portfolio area and support the Principal HR Adviser and the rest of the SHRA team in identifying and delivering service developments.