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Are you eager to land a brand new role? Our client, a busy local authority in Harrow. Are looking for a Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor to join their organisation.

Job Role: Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor – Sickness Lead
Temporary or Permanent: Temp
Possible End Date: Februrary 2026
Rate of Pay (Umbrella and Inside IR35): £30 per hour
Location: Harrow
Office Based/Hybrid: Hybrid
Short Brief/Requirement:
The Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor (Sickness Lead) is responsible for leading and delivering effective sickness absence management across the Council.

This role provides specialist advice and support to reduce sickness absence levels, implement preventative measures, and ensure consistent application of absence policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Casework including complex casework, organisational change, and other HR&OD initiatives within the Human Resources remit are successfully concluded within deadlines, KPIs and in line with existing Employee Relations SLA.
• Provide specialist advice to managers on complex absence cases, including long-term health conditions, disability-related absence, and stress management as well as complex ER cases
• Provide meaningful monthly, quarterly and annual KPI’s / metrics (dashboard) data and reports for the DMTs typically relating to case management records, sickness absence levels (short / long term), head count, turnover etc, identifying trends and patterns with proposed improvement action plans to work towards the relevant performance indicators.
• Lead on developing reasonable adjustment processes and support for employees with health conditions

Job Requirements:

• A minimum of two years’ relevant experience as a Senior HR Employee Relations Advisor or equivalent 
• Degree and/or CIPD or equivalent professional body qualified or relevant work experience
• Demonstrable record of achievement in employee relations, specifically sickness absence casework, TUPE, and strategic and operational human resources projects

Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review. 

How to Apply:

If you are interested in applying, please press the button below, send your CV to tareeq.smith@temptingrecruitment.co.uk or contact Tareeq on 020 3854 4911 to discuss further.

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