HR Adviser at Fife Council in Glenrothes, Fife, United Kingdom

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 05 October 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 27 September 2026

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £43,437.09 - £47,604.34

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week

Location: Fife House, Glenrothes with the option of blended home working

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement.

In HR, we pride ourselves on our ability to work collaboratively, balancing compliance, consistency and pragmatism in our support and advice and support to managers across the Council. Our aim is to deliver a professional HR service that helps managers to support and manage their employees, through planned activities such as workforce planning and workforce change and through comprehensive HR case work. This requires the ability to understand the organisation and the challenges Services face, to build effective working relationships with managers and the Trade Unions, and utilising knowledge and experience to provide timely advice and support to ensure effective case management of a range of operational HR activities. We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic HR practitioner to join our team.

Supporting Statement and Application

In completing your application, please give full details of your relevant work history, qualifications and current CIPD membership status. As part of your application, you are required to attach a supporting statement which outlines how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 sides of A4 and should tell us about your interest in this position and the skills, abilities and experience you would bring to the team, specifically covering:

• Your skill and ability to foster effective working relationships with managers.

• Your skill and ability to interpret and give advice on HR policies and procedures and to reference employment law and good practice.

• Your experience in representing HR at Hearings and formal meetings.

• Your ability to work with autonomy in a fast-paced HR case management role.

Job Details

As an HR Adviser in within HR’s People Solutions Team, you will manage a diverse and often-demanding case load, supporting assigned Service areas. Reporting to an HR Business Partner, you will work with a high level of autonomy on absence management, grievance, disciplinary and performance management cases, providing professional advice to managers to ensure effective case progression within procedures and best practice. You will lead on change projects, supporting consultation, communication and implementation of workforce and structural change of varying scales. You’ll represent HR at Hearings, providing specialist advice, and at a range of meetings, preparing and providing management information and relevant updates.

You’ll also be involved in other assigned projects, such as delivery of training, data collection and analysis, and research, and you will participate in the HR Duty rota, providing information and advice to support our shared service centre model. As an experienced practitioner, you will provide support to newer and developing HR colleagues.

The Person

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent (SCQF level 9) and hold Chartered membership of the CIPD (you need to be able to use the designation Chartered MCIPD).

You will bring substantial practical experience of dealing with a range of HR operational and workforce change activities, ideally working across a broad portfolio of services, and you’ll have the confidence and credibility to navigate complexities. You will have the ability to think systematically and holistically, to assess needs, opportunities and challenges, to recommend solutions and actions, and to adapt to changing priorities. You will be able to communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively, building effective working relationships with managers. You’ll be comfortable working with HR systems and technology, using data and evidence to inform recommendations.

The HR Service

We champion good people management across the Council, supporting all aspects of employment. The HR Service is currently structured around four functional teams: HR People Solutions, covering business partnering (this vacancy) and the Attendance Support Unit; HR Policy and Reward; HR Strategy, Organisational Development and Wellbeing; and Health, Safety and HR Systems.

Within the HR People Solutions Team, led by an HR Service Manager, there are five HR Business Partners, each partnering a Council Directorate, and an HR Team Manager who leads the work of the Attendance Support Unit. You will report directly to an HR Business Partner and be primarily assigned to deliver activities to drive forward case management, employee relations and projects within the assigned Directorate. We value teamwork, knowledge sharing and collaboration and you would be expected to support activities in other areas too.

The HR Service is based in Fife House, Glenrothes, where we have desk-based and collaborative workspaces. We offer an option of a blended workstyle, providing a balance of office working and home working.

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For Further Information Please Contact: Leanne.Harkins@fife.gov.uk