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Employee Relations Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
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
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