Redeployment Consultant

You’ll be joining the Recruitment & Attraction team, working at the heart of Dorset Council’s approach to internal mobility and employee support. This role is all about people, helping colleagues affected by organisational change to navigate the redeployment process with clarity, compassion, and practical guidance. You’ll work closely with the HR Centre of Excellence to deliver a joined-up, consistent service, while remaining plugged into live recruitment activity to actively identify and match people to suitable opportunities. Although this post uses a generic HR Adviser job description, your focus will be on delivering and shaping the council’s redeployment process, ensuring every step, from skills capture to selection outcome, is coordinated and well supported. You’ll help define how the process works in practice, supporting the use of a central register, expression of interest forms, and internal shortlisting approaches. You’ll also track outcomes, support managers with expectations, and input into key decisions around trial periods, training, and reasonable adjustments. We’ll support your development, encourage fresh thinking, and give you space to lead on this important work during a time of transformation.

What you can expect to be doing You will:

• support eligible employees to identify suitable roles and prepare internal applications
• advise and guide both employees and managers throughout the redeployment process
• help to actively match people to roles using live data and insight
• liaise with recruiting managers to support shortlisting, selection and appropriate offers
• coordinate consistent tracking of redeployment activity, outcomes and feedback
• support the application of salary protection, trial periods and fixed term contract terms
• shape new tools and processes, including the skills and preferences form and reporting dashboard

About you You’ll bring relevant experience with knowledge of HR and recruitment, with the confidence to work independently and the emotional intelligence to support people through change. You’ll be organised, thoughtful in your communication, and committed to delivering fair, consistent and people-centred outcomes. You’ll enjoy making systems better and spotting ways to improve how we do things, and most of all, you’ll care about making a difference when it counts.