People Adviser Temporary until end December 2025

About us

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.

Due to development within the team, we’re looking for a People Adviser to join our Regional People Team. The People Adviser supports Regional People Team, through the provision of customer focussed comprehensive and pragmatic HR advice and support to managers, employees, and volunteers in line with organisational policies, procedures and legal requirements.

Some of the benefits

• Salary £34,893 - £41,050 (dependent on experience)
• Flexible working
• 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
• Life assurance
• Health and dental cashplan

Your role

As a People Adviser, you will be tasked with focus on the following areas:

• Providing coaching support, guidance, and employee relations solutions to our managers across the UK and Ireland.
• Be an expert, operating alongside senior leaders to ensure casework is managed effectively and efficiently.
• Manage a varied mix of disciplinary, grievance, capability, and absence cases; ensuring advice is in line with organisational policies and procedures as well as a range of HR projects.
• The ability to develop and maintaining collaborative and productive relationships with a wide variety of individuals, staff and volunteers, and teams.

About you

You will be committed to providing excellent customer service and be able to research, analyse, reason logically and effectively within tight and conflicting timeframes. You will be able to create and maintain effective working relationships with people at all levels and have a proactive approach when handling sensitive or confidential information thoughtfully.

To be considered as a People Adviser you will need:

• To be tenacious and confident in your HR and legal knowledge
• Be resilient and be able to hold your own in challenging conversations.
• Have experience of managing change activities and restructures.
• Hold a minimum of Level 5 CIPD or relevant experience.

Desirable:

• Experience in reward practice, including job evaluation systems.

Other organisations may call this role; People Adviser, HR Adviser

So, as a People Adviser you will have a sound understanding and a proven track record of the practical application of policies and procedures. Previous experience of reviewing and updating internal policies in line with external changes in employment legislation will be crucial to this role. If you have the ability to organise your own time and workload to ensure advice is prioritised then this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.