People Advisor
Salary: £35,000 to £38,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Remote, or based at our head office in London, UK-wide travel required
About Us
One Small Thing is a UK-based charity dedicated to redesigning the justice system through a traumainformed approach. We work to ensure that women and their children affected by the justice system are supported with dignity, compassion, and understanding. By influencing policy, delivering innovative programmes, and creating safe, nurturing environments, we aim to break cycles of disadvantage and enable lasting, positive change. We are a values-driven organisation, committed to collaboration, learning, and placing lived experience at the heart of everything we do.
About You and The role
The People Advisor is a hands-on delivery and advisory role within One Small Thing’s People function. The post-holder coordinates recruitment, training and induction activity, maintains accurate HR systems and people data, and provides practical first-line advice to managers on straightforward, low-risk employee relations matters.
This role provides practical coordination that enables the Head of People and line managers to work confidently, consistently and in line with OST’s values. It combines safer recruitment administration, training coordination, onboarding, people reporting and wider HR support, while maintaining excellent attention to detail and a trauma-informed approach.
The post-holder will also manage straightforward, low-risk employee relations matters, providing practical, policy-aligned guidance to managers and supporting cases through to resolution. Complex, sensitive, formal or higher-risk matters will be escalated promptly to the Head of People, in line with agreed casework boundaries.
This role keeps the day-to-day people processes running smoothly and consistently. The post-holder will make sure vacancies move safely and efficiently, training and mandatory learning are coordinated and tracked, and HR systems tell the truth about our people, compliance and workforce activity.
Working with us
At One Small Thing, we offer a supportive and values-led working environment, alongside a competitive benefits package that includes flexible working, generous annual leave, and access to wellbeing support. We are committed to your development, providing opportunities for learning, reflection and growth, so you can thrive in your role while making a meaningful difference.
Closing Date: 5.00pm on Wednesday 25th November 2026.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
Equity, Inclusion and Safeguarding One Small Thing is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and we actively value the insight and expertise that comes from lived experience of the issues we work with. We welcome applications from individuals with a wide range of backgrounds, including those who have experience of the justice system.
Safer recruitment is central to the safeguarding of adults, children, and young people at risk. One Small Thing is committed to the safeguarding of every woman and child who is part of the Hope Street community and expects all team members to share this commitment.
As part of the recruitment process, the successful candidate will be required to complete the relevant vetting and barring checks. A criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from being appointed.
The DBS check for this role will be at basic level. Failure to declare any relevant information that is later provided by the Disclosure and Barring Service, may result in any offer of employment being withdrawn.
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