HR Consultant (Senior HR Advisor / Junior HR Business Partner) UK876675/LI in Southampton

Hybrid | 3 days office‑based + client sites

Morgan Philips are delighted to be exclusively representing a growing HR consultancy in the search for a high‑calibre HR Consultant to join their high‑performing team. This is a fast‑paced, client‑facing role suited to a confident and commercially astute HR professional who can operate with a high degree of autonomy. You will be expected to provide clear, legally sound and pragmatic advice across a wide range of complex employee relations scenarios, acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders.

The Role

• Deliver a professional, outsourced HR service to a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple sectors
• Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, directors and senior leaders, influencing decision‑making with commercially grounded HR guidance
• Independently lead and manage complex, high‑risk employee relations cases end‑to‑end, including disciplinaries, grievances, capability, absence, redundancy and TUPE
• Provide clear, confident and legally robust advice, identifying and mitigating employment law risks while balancing commercial outcomes
• Own ER case strategy, including decision‑making around escalation, dismissal risk, and alternative outcomes
• Lead redundancy consultations, including scoping, pooling, selection criteria, and managing challenge from employees
• Navigate sensitive and complex cases involving overlapping risks (e.g. performance, health conditions, discrimination concerns)
• Prepare high‑quality documentation including outcome letters, policies, contracts and case reports to a consistently strong standard
• Embed yourself within client organisations where required, building credibility and long‑term relationships
• Support wider HR activity including performance management, organisational change, talent and engagement initiatives
• Contribute to business development activity, proposals and client presentations
• Deliver training to clients on ER, employment law updates and best practice

About You

• Proven HR generalist experience within a consultancy or highly client‑facing HRBP environment
• Demonstrable track record of independently managing complex and high‑risk ER casework, with clear ownership of outcomes
• Strong and up‑to‑date knowledge of UK employment law, with the confidence to apply this in practice and articulate risk clearly
• Able to provide legally sound, commercially pragmatic advice without over‑reliance on escalation
• Experience leading redundancy programmes and consultations, with a clear understanding of your personal remit and decision‑making responsibility
• Comfortable managing a varied caseload, including multiple concurrent ER matters of varying complexity
• Strong judgement and the ability to navigate ambiguity, particularly in sensitive or high‑risk scenarios
• Confident communicator, able to challenge and influence stakeholders and manage pushback effectively
• Highly organised, resilient, and adaptable in a fast‑paced, multi‑client environment
• Fully CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent)

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to join a growing and ambitious HR consultancy
• High level of autonomy, trust and client exposure
• Varied and intellectually challenging casework
• Clear opportunity for progression as the business scales
• Collaborative and supportive team environment
• Hybrid working with meaningful client interaction

Interested? For a confidential discussion, please apply via Morgan Philips.