HR Advisor

HR Advisor

Reference number: JR259532

Location: London

Working pattern: Full Time, 37.5 Hours Per Week

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of roles: 1

Grade : K4U

Salary: £36,121 - £47,206

We are looking for a HR Advisor to join our team.

As an HR Advisor specialising in Employee Relations, you will provide expert, pragmatic,

and commercially sound advice to people managers across Kaplan Professional UK. You

will champion a positive, fair, and inclusive workplace culture by guiding managers

through formal and informal ER procedures, resolving workplace issues early, and

empowering colleagues to achieve their best. You will support and empower our teams

to act with integrity and drive success through:

- Providing expert guidance and coaching to line managers on employee relations
- and performance matters
- Managing ER casework to ensure compliant, fair, and prompt resolutions
- Upskilling management capability through dedicated coaching, toolkits, and
- training
- Maintaining, updating, and aligning people policies with UK employment law
- Analysing ER data trends to recommend proactive interventions and workflow
- improvements
- Supporting cyclical HR processes and key employee engagement initiatives

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who may be currently working as a HR Coordinator, HR Assistant, People Operational Specialist who is looking to expand their skills and build their career with an industry leader.

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What you’ll bring to the role

Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end ER cases, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance management, and complex sickness absence.

- Solid, up-to-date knowledge of UK employment legislation and ACAS best practice guidelines.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to advise and influence managers at all levels diplomatically and constructively.
- CIPD Level 5 qualification (completed or in progress), or equivalent demonstrable practical experience.
- Excellent written skills, with the ability to draft clear, balanced, and legally sound HR correspondence and reports.
- High discretion, integrity, and resilience when managing sensitive, emotionally charged, and confidential matters.
- Practical comfort with digital HR systems, data reporting, and modern workplace tools.

What we do

Kaplan Professional is a leading provider of apprenticeships, accountancy / tax / finance & banking courses, and professional assessments. For almost 80 years, we've helped shape the development and careers of finance professionals.

What we believe in

Our goal is for Kaplan to be a great place to work where everybody can succeed, so we truly live and breathe our values: act with integrity, grow knowledge, empower & support, create opportunity, drive results together.

Kaplan is a global organisation whose mission is rooted in providing equal access to education and opportunities for advancement to people of all backgrounds. We believe diversity, equity and inclusion - of culture, experiences, perspectives - are paramount to creating success and opportunity in an ever-changing world. As an educator, partner and employer, Kaplan is committed to promoting an equitable world in which diverse talent can develop, advance and thrive.

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Our Values

We live, breathe and celebrate our values - they drive what we believe in, how we behave and guide us in creating a culture of success.

• Act with integrity

• Empower and support

• Create opportunity

• Grow knowledge

• Drive results together

What we offer

As well as a competitive salary, transparent pay structures, hybrid/home working where possible, and paths for career progression, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 28 days annual leave + option to purchase more

• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme

• Big discounts on Kaplan courses for you and your family

• Private medical, income protection, and life insurance

• 24/7 confidential helpline providing counselling and other support services

• Company pension contributions

• Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental and Paternity/Partner pay which is well above statutory levels

How to apply

To apply for this role please submit a CV along with a Cover Letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role no later than 11pm on Monday 16th November 2026. Note, we recommend that you apply at the earliest as we reserve the right to close the role before the closing date if we have gathered a suitable shortlist.

Additional Application Information

Kaplan is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.

This role involves working with learners who are under 18 years old and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Recruitment checks are undertaken in accordance with our background checking policy. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure (including children’s barred list) via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. In addition to the DBS check, for roles that include teaching or coaching, a Prohibition from Teaching Check will be completed through the Teaching Regulation Agency.

Our Suitability of Ex-offenders Policy is available on the careers page of our website www.kaplan.co.uk .

Please be aware that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Recruitment checks are undertaken in accordance with our background checking policy. Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Our Suitability of Ex-offenders Policy is available on the careers page of our website www.kaplan.co.uk .

A sponsorship licence is a legal requirement for employers seeking to hire individuals from outside the UK or those who require a work visa to work in the country. Unfortunately, Kaplan Assessment or Kaplan Publishing or Kaplan Professional Awards does not possess this licence at this time.

Application Support

If you require support completing your application or wish to talk to someone about the role before applying please email the Recruitment Team [email protected] .

Disability Confident Scheme

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to interviewing applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role as per the job description and any screening or testing stages. Details of how to request your application be considered under the Disability Confident scheme will be shared with all applicants upon submission of an application.

Furthermore, all applicants invited to attend interview will be given information on how to request reasonable adjustments to attend.