Who you are

• Joining us as an Employee Relations Manager, the minimum criteria you’ll need is a Human Resources professional qualification, ideally Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) with post qualification HR experience as a specialist in Employee Relations demonstrating the following skills:
• Experience of managing a formal process of grievance, appeal, capability and disciplinary
• Experience of advising on and being involved in restructures, changes to terms and conditions or negotiated exits weighing up the risks and using judgement
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal - to hold formal meetings, provide and create supporting documentation including report writing
• Attention to detail and ability to self-review own work and others

What the job involves

• Employee Relations Manager – fixed term contract
• Maternity cover for six months duration
• Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals
• Employee Relations is a specialist team, part of People Operations within People & Culture
• We provide everyday advice, guidance and support on complex people matters and change management
• We are the subject matter experts in employment law, application of policies and procedures and managing the employment relationship
• It’s a small team that covers a national remit so location is not important, but this may mean some travel is required
• We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours; we’ll support you to balance your work and life
• Provide advice, guidance and support to Business Leaders, Service Line teams and the wider People & Culture teams on wide-ranging employee relations matters and change management
• Oversee, manage and provide support to the people who chair disciplinary, grievance and appeal investigations, bringing technical skills as well as management skills to effectively support and conclude the process
• Advise on and provide a range of solutions on conflict resolutions and complex long term sickness absence and capability matters
• Project manage discrete projects and/or support on firmwide change programmes such as restructures, redundancies, process reviews, TUPE acquisitions and disposals, business transfers outside of TUPE, and consultation programmes

Benefits

• Life cover
• Income protection
• Matched pension
• Private medical, including anytime access to Doctor@Hand and Stronger Minds
• Professional subscriptions