Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Closes: 11th March 2026

Contract:

• 1x Permanent
• 1x Fixed Term for 12 months

We’re delighted to share a fantastic opportunity to join our People Team at the British Library! We’re looking for two experienced Senior Employee Relations Advisors to play a key role in delivering high-quality educational and operational employee relations support.

About the role

You will manage a complex caseload covering a wide range of employee relations matters, ensuring that all casework is managed timely and in a fair and transparent manner. You will ensure that all work aligns with current legislation, best practice, case law, and organisational policies. You will provide high-quality advice and support to enable early resolution of workplace issues, while understanding organisational challenges and risks and offering practical solutions to mitigate against this.

Striving for excellence, you will coach and support managers to build confidence and capability in handling employee relations matters, to positively influence and make an impact through the successful execution of your role.

About you

You will bring with substantial experience of providing employee relations services to staff at all levels. You will have a solution-oriented approach with sound judgement and the ability to professionally challenge when needed. You will have the ability to quickly and effectively build working relationships with stakeholders across the organisation.

For more information, please see the Job Profile.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items – a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

• 25 days’ holiday plus 2.5 privilege days.
• Access to a defined benefit Civil Service pension scheme.
• Flexible working arrangements, including flexi-time.
• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits.

Things you need to know

• We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.
• Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check (DBS check).
• Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn.
• We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.
• We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applicants.

Closing Date: 23:59 on Wednesday 11th March 2026

If you have any questions, please contact BL-recruitment@bl.uk

Please apply via the ‘Apply’ button above.