Job Description

Contractual hours

36

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Human Resources

Date posted

04/03/2025

Job reference

R00000916

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Fixed term until 30/04/2026

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: B

Salary: 34,608 per annum

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and supportive Advisory team as a HR Advisor.

As HR Advisor, you will provide comprehensive advice and support to managers and employees across the full range of employee related issues. You will work closely with the Senior HR Advisor to cultivate strong working relationships, develop line management capability and ensure all advice is in line with employment law and BL policies. You will contribute to a varied and busy workload, managing case work such as grievances, disciplinaries, absence management and recruitment consultations. You will also work on the reporting of key metrics, providing data for proactive planning.

We are looking for someone with the following:
relevant generalist HR experience, with experience of providing HR support and advice holding, or working towards, professional qualifications (CIPD or equivalent) ability to work in a fast paced environment, with good interpersonal and communication skills experience of working on projects with set outcomes and timescales up to date knowledge of employment law and professional HR issues

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

A competitive salary. A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade). Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period. 25 days holiday. Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits

Closing date: 11 May 2025

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.