People Advisor

People Advisor – 6 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Location: Homebased (travel to London or Birmingham may be required)
Salary: £30,880 - £35,907 per annum + £3,000 London allowance (if applicable)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed-Term (6 months)
Team: People & Organisational Development

At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe everyone deserves a life worth living. We’re looking for a compassionate and confident People Advisor to join our People & OD team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact by supporting our managers and teams through a range of employee relations cases—from sickness absence and grievances to disciplinaries and TUPE.

Your role in our mission

You’ll be a key part of our HR operations, helping us create a fair, inclusive and supportive working environment. You’ll:

• Provide clear, empathetic advice on ER matters to managers and staff.
• Support HR Business Partners with casework and reporting.
• Keep our policies, templates and toolkits up to date and accessible.
• Provide guidance on our new HRIS, supporting process mapping and training.
• Collaborate with colleagues across People & OD, Payroll, and Finance.
• Build trusted relationships with external partners like Occupational Health and our EAP provider.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a solid HR generalist background and understands employment law.
• Is confident handling ER cases and supporting managers with sensitive issues.
• Communicates with clarity, kindness and professionalism.
• Spots opportunities to improve processes and make things better.
• Is comfortable using HR systems and Microsoft Office tools.
• Ideally holds CIPD Level 5 and has experience with HRIS or project work.

Why Rethink Mental Illness?

We’re a charity that puts people first—whether that’s the individuals we support or the colleagues we work alongside. You’ll be joining a team that values openness, equity, and hope. We work together, we celebrate together, and we’re committed to making a difference.

Please be mindful that we may need to close adverts early if we receive a high volume of applications, we, therefore, encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer.  We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact - recruitment@rethink.org