People & Culture Advisor Job at Trafford M LS a minute Full Time NEW

We’re looking for someone in their People career who:

Likes managing moving parts and keeping things on track.

cares deeply about building people experience and culture, working closely with all internal stakeholders on people matters.

Is comfortable owning delivery rather than waiting for instructions.

Wants to contribute to building long-term capability, not just tick off tasks.

You’ll work across different priorities, different deadlines, different systems.

Who We Are

Slater Heelis is a leading full‑service law firm with a long‑established reputation for exceptional client service, deep expertise, and a people‑first culture. Based in Manchester, we’re proud of our heritage – but we’re equally proud of how we’re evolving.

We’re also a regional leader within Lawfront, a group of high‑performing regional law firms across the UK, accelerating growth, innovation, and creating long‑term value for our clients and people.

Lawfront invests in its firms – in people, technology, collaboration, and local acquisitions and our colleagues are some of the best in the profession.

The Opportunity

If you’re passionate about creating great employee experiences, enabling high performance, and shaping a modern People & Culture function, this role is for you.

Are you a current People Advisor, in People Ops and you are looking to take the next step in your career? If you’re driven, curious, and people‑centred, we want to meet you.

This role could be for you if you have:

• 2–3+ years’ people advisory experience, partnering with stakeholders across the business
• A modern, collaborative People & Culture mindset
• A hands‑on, execution‑driven approach – you like getting things done
• Strong organisation and resilience, managing multiple priorities with confidence
• Comfort with ambiguity and change in a high‑growth environment
• Excellent communication skills, empathy, and the ability to build trust quickly
• A proactive, ownership‑driven mindset
• A commitment to personal development and continuous learning
• Strong UK employment law knowledge and high attention to detail
• Tech‑savviness and experience optimising digital tools and platforms

What You’ll Gain

• Exposure and expertise within a scaling environment
• Variety – no two days look the same
• Autonomy and responsibility from day one
• Professional growth through close collaboration with experienced People leaders across Slater Heelis and Lawfront
• Experience across the full employee lifecycle
• The chance to make a meaningful impact on engagement, performance, and firm-wide success

What you’ll be doing (day to day)

People Advisory – Partner with leaders to build positive, high-performing and inclusive environments:

• Provide pragmatic advice across performance, capability, restructuring, redundancy, family leave, flexible working.
• Enable leaders to manage sensitive situations well and make sound, legally compliant decisions aligned with UK employment law.
• Build strong working relationships through proactive guidance, early intervention and ongoing support.

People Operations – Own and deliver core people processes across the employee lifecycle:

• End‑to‑end onboarding through to offboarding
• High‑quality documentation, reporting, and audits
• Managing shared inboxes and acting as a reliable operational point of contact

Process Optimisation – Refine and improve people processes, streamlining workflows and enhancing employee experience.

Change Management – Support and deliver change initiatives, partnering with leaders to embed new ways of working.

People Frameworks & Policies – Help create and update policies aligned with best practice.

People Initiatives – Contribute to key projects across the people roadmap, designing and delivering initiatives that drive engagement and performance.

Upskilling Leaders – Support the development of people leaders, helping them to build high‑performing teams.

Perks & Benefits

In addition to getting the opportunity to work with exceptionally talented people, being a part of a fast-growing business with huge ambition across Lawfront, and being a great place to work, we have a range of benefits including –

• Flexible time off – 25 days annual leave + 1 day for birthday + 8 bank holidays + additional days for your 3-, 5- & 10-year anniversary.
• Career progress – we’ll support your career progression by providing you with the opportunity to grow within.
• Agile working
• Life & Income Protection Insurance
• A wellbeing support package that includes- a 24-hour virtual fully qualified GP service, the ability to book a virtual GP appointment/ ask for a second opinion, 24-hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme, mental health support including free of charge CBT or counselling sessions. Nutritional support sessions Individual physiotherapy consultations and 1-2-1 lifestyle coaching including a 360-wellbeing assessment.
• Up to 4% matched pension contributions
• A sociable community of like-minded professionals with regular on-site and off-site socials and events
• Critical illness insurance
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme and Tech discount scheme
• Health cash plan – Giving you back the cost of routine or regular healthcare treatments such as eye care, dental treatment or physiotherapy.
• 1000+ Discounted gym partnerships
• The opportunity to join an employer that takes Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging seriously – all amazing people are welcome at Slater Heelis.
• up to £5,000 (less tax & NI) bonus for each candidate that you refer to join Slater Heelis who passes probation.
• A benefits portal enabling you to purchase an array of other benefits via salary sacrifice, such as, the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave, season ticket loans, and travel insurance amongst other attractive perks.
• Enhanced family-friendly provisions including maternity and paternity provisions

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Please note:

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

In addition, as part of our screening process, we will be conducting basic DBS checks on successful candidates.