Job Description

The Senior People Consultant acts as a strategic liaison between the People Function and Enterprise areas , ensuring alignment of people strategies with organisational goals.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead and participate in year cyclical people-related activities.
• Advise managers on complex employee relations issues.
• Facilitate and support organisational design processes.
• Implement workforce planning and talent management initiatives.
• Support change management and organisational development activities.
• Analyse and present people metrics to inform decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with employment law and internal policies.
• Coach line managers on core people processes, instilling people management best practice to drive enhanced line manager capability, and escalating concerns, demand or opportunities.

Authorities & Dimensions:

• No budget responsibility unless managing people related budgets for a team.
• The job will influence and guide budget holders’ decisions relating to people-related cost effectiveness.
• The job may operate within a single Enterprise area or multiple areas.

Essential Skills

• Level 5 CIPD Associate Diploma / Foundation or Undergraduate Degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• CIPD Associate Accreditation or willingness to work towards.
• Knowledge and experience in Senior level human resource practices.
• Ability to apply commercial awareness / business acumen to strengthen business partnering capability.
• Organisational design methodology and practice.
• Strong understanding of HR principles, employment law and best practices.
• Ability to handle confidential information with professionalism and integrity.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in HR information systems and reporting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading change initiatives.
• Experience of working in a trade union environment, developing and maintaining strong, collaborative trade union relationships.

Desirable Skills

• Coaching and mentoring training, experience, or qualifications.
• Leadership development tools / techniques training or qualifications.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Claire Keenaghan

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to be between Monday 2nd November & Monday 16th November 2026.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C (9-4) GCSE in English Language, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

Contracted Supply Workers (CSWs) are not eligible to apply to internal vacancies. CSWs are welcome to apply to external vacancies advertised on our external vacancies board.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. The competencies will be issued when invited to interview.

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

During the interview, you will also be expected to give a 15 minute presentation on the following topic:

‘Senior People Consultants are aligned to business areas, this opportunity would partner with Portfolio’s within COO.

Can you describe your approach to building a in-depth understanding of the Portfolios you would align to?

• What information and data would help you build your understanding of the Portfolio and the people metrics?
• How would you use the data and insight to develop an effective people plan?
• Considering the operational context at Sellafield, what do you see as the key people-related priorities required to drive efficiency and performance?”

This presentation should be sent to recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk via email at least two working days before your interview. You should also take four paper copies of your presentation to your interview in case of any IT issues on the day.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk

Please ensure that you save a copy of this advert for future reference if you make an application for this role.

The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 18th October 2026.