People Specialist

People Specialist – 9 Month FTC Salary: £45,000 + Benefits Contract: 9 Month FTC Hybrid: Highly flexible – office attendance around once every fortnight Locations: Peterborough, Watford, Bristol or Birmingham

The Role

A broad HR opportunity combining hands-on Employee Relations, business partnering and people projects. You’ll work directly with managers across the business, owning ER cases while supporting wider change, workforce planning and HR initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently manage a varied ER caseload including disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence and wellbeing.
• Advise and coach managers on complex people matters, confidently challenging where appropriate.
• Provide pragmatic advice in line with UK employment law and commercial priorities.
• Support organisational change, restructures and workforce planning.
• Contribute to wider HR, culture and transformation projects.
• Review people data across ER, absence, engagement and performance to identify trends and risks.
• Build strong relationships with managers and stakeholders across the organisation. Ideal Candidate
• Strong hands-on Employee Relations experience is essential.
• Confident managing ER cases independently rather than simply providing administrative support.
• Good working knowledge of UK employment law.
• Experienced advising, coaching and influencing managers directly.
• Broader HR exposure including change, restructures, workforce planning or people projects.
• Commercial approach with the ability to balance policy with business needs.
• Comfortable interpreting HR data and identifying trends.
• Ideally experienced within a larger or complex organisation supporting multiple stakeholders. A great next step for a strong HR Advisor who wants broader business partnering exposure while remaining hands-on with complex ER and people projects. Interested? Apply today!! JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us