HR Advisor
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
- Hybrid (Huntingdon, UK)
- 02/01/2026
Job Description
We're looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our friendly, busy HR team and play a key role in supporting colleagues across the organisation.
This is a hands-on generalist role with real variety, reporting to the Strategic HR Business Partner.
What you'll be doing:
- Managing a wide range of employee relations cases
- Supporting the delivery of HR initiatives such as the Appraisal process, inductions, and Learning & Development
- Supporting restructures and organisational change, including job evaluation
- Drafting and rolling out HR policies
- Using HR systems to produce workforce reports
- Contributing across the full employee lifecycle and mentoring colleagues where needed
What we're looking for:
- CIPD Level 5 (essential) and HR generalist experience, including experience in employee relations, policy development and organisational change
- A degree or equivalent experience
- Experience working in a public sector or unionised environment
- A confident communicator who can build trust and influence at all levels
- Comfortable working with HR systems, data and reports (IRIS Cascade desirable)
- Values-led, collaborative, and committed to inclusion and wellbeing
Why this role matters:
This role sits at the heart of our organisation's people agenda. You'll help turn our People Plan into action, supporting organisational change, building manager confidence, and ensuring our HR practices are fair, consistent and inclusive.
What we offer:
- A supportive HR team, working closely with the Strategic HR Business Partner and HR colleagues
- Opportunities to contribute to meaningful projects that make a real organisational impact
- Hybrid working, with 1–2 days per week in our Huntingdon office
- This role is advertised as a full-time, permanent position, but we're happy to consider flexible working requests and part-time working patterns (minimum 0.8 FTE or 30 hours per week).
What you'll earn (you won't find "competitive salary” written instead of a figure on our watch!)
From £42,839
What you'll receive in return (Benefits)
- Annual leave starts at 26 days, plus Bank Holidays
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Access to Vivup, our Benefits Platform, including Lifestyle Discounts, Gym Membership and Home Electronics Salary Sacrifice Schemes.
- Professional Membership Scheme
CIPD Requirement
Level 5 Required
Email Contact for candidates
Donya.Taylor@cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk
Closing Date
18/01/2026
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