HR Advisor (maternity cover)

This is a fixed term role to cover a period of maternity leave (up to 12 months)

The role

At Energy Saving Trust, the HR advisor plays a key role in delivering expert guidance and support to both management and employees, ensuring HR practices align with legal requirements, company policies, and business goals.

You’ll act as a critical liaison between managers and employees, addressing workplace challenges, promoting a positive culture, and driving organisational success. This role is vital in supporting our HR function, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, encouraging a productive, engaged, and thriving work environment.

The team

The HR Centre of Excellence is a vital support function, serving as a foundation for the organisation's success. Our role is to listen, support, advise, and empower our people throughout the entire employee lifecycle, ensuring an inclusive and equitable experience for all.

We believe our people are our greatest asset, and we’re committed to making everyone feel they belong, are included, and can thrive. From recruitment to offboarding, we create pathways for growth, development, and the full realisation of potential.

We don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk. We’re constantly challenging ourselves to be the best professionals we can be, contributing to making Energy Saving Trust a fantastic place to work. Our values guide us, and we maintain an open and honest culture.

Successes are celebrated, and lessons are learned. We've built a culture of openness and vulnerability, allowing each team member to bring their whole self to work every day.

What you will do

• Provide expert HR guidance on key areas such as sickness absence, performance, grievances, and disciplinary actions, using a coaching approach where possible. Ensure compliance with legal requirements and internal policies while fostering a positive, supportive workplace.

• Drive successful onboarding and induction processes, gathering feedback to improve employee retention and reduce turnover.

• Advise on HR policies and procedures, ensuring compliant and solution-focused hearings with thorough follow-up.

• Analyse and present feedback to HR business partners, offering data-driven insights and actionable solutions for continuous HR improvement.

• Stay ahead of HR trends and legal developments, continuously evolving strategies to keep our HR approach innovative and forward-thinking.

What you will bring

• Demonstrated experience as an HR advisor or in a similar HR role.

• In-depth knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, and industry trends.

• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

• Excellent organisational skills with a keen eye for detail.

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Solution-oriented with a proactive, forward-thinking approach.

• Strong empathy with the ability to adapt communication to suit various situations.

• Eager to learn, grow, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

For more information, please see the Job description- HR Advisor

Please submit an anonymised CV and cover letter, removing your name, address, email address, and any other identifying details. Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter may be rejected.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

We’ll support you with:

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)

• True flexibility in how and where you work

• Strong pension & life assurance

• Enhanced family leave

• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)

• Professional development support

• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page

Reasonable adjustments: We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with [email protected] or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.

Diversity and inclusion
Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role. Find out more here.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK