HR Consultant in Eastbourne

We're appointing an HR Consultant in the HR Advisory Team that will report to an HR Manager. The post holder will work with a team of HR professionals providing an effective HR Advisory Service across the council service areas and schools across Brighton & Hove.

This role is fixed term until 31 January 2028.

Interviews to be held: 17 November 2026

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please email Kate Vallance at Kate.Vallance@brighton-hove.gov.uk or Vicky Baldwin at Vicky.Baldwin@brighton-hove.gov.uk .

About the role

HR Consultants in this team:

• Deliver a Human Resource Advisory Service to employees and Managers which builds the capacity of line managers and staff to resolve people management issues effectively and professionally.
• Contribute to the effective running of the Human Resource Advisory Service by working flexibly across all directorates and ensuring a professional and high quality service is delivered at all times.
• Manage complex case work using a variety of approaches and to lead on specific projects as directed by the Human Resource Managers.

One of our key areas of focus as a department is to support the directorates to proactively understand, engage with and respond effectively to the city's diverse communities and changing demographic.

The team works in a hybrid way with a combination of working from home, from the office (Hove Town Hall) and attendance at meetings as needed.

HR Advisory Services

The remit of the HR Advisory Team will continue to focus on the provision of a high quality professional advisory service to the organisation, and for managing case work to embed a culture of early informal resolution, fairness, tackling discrimination and ensuring that complex employment matters are dealt with effectively and sensitively. HR Consultant roles, reporting to HR Managers, work across schools and the council. The HR Consultants' focus will be on complex employee relations casework, ensuring high quality and consistency.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants' responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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