Employee Relations Advisor

SCL Education Group; Fleet; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

SCL Education Group is seeking an Employee Relations Advisor to provide professional, business-focused operational workforce advice, manage a complex caseload, and deliver fair casework. You will support the wider People function, ensuring timely progression of cases and compliant outcomes, in a fast-paced education environment.

This fixed-term maternity cover for 12 months offers an opportunity to influence policy development, training, and employee relations across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering operational employee relations advice and casework.
• Solid understanding of employment law and compliance with policies.
• Ability to manage a complex ER caseload with independence and solution focus.
• CIPD qualification preferred or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive, professional, and business-focused ER advice.
• Confidently manage a complex caseload and ensure timely progression of cases.
• Coach employees and managers on resolution, attendance, and disciplinary matters.
• Support the wider People function to achieve strategic objectives in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead on project activities such as restructures, TUPE, redundancies, policy development and training.

Skills

Employee relations

Disciplinary handling

Attendance management

Coaching managers

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

We believe that everyone owns potential; it’s inside us all waiting to be discovered.

We are a post-16 further education provider delivering high-quality education, inspired through sport and performing arts.

With over 20 years’ experience in the industry, we have evolved to become the home of sports and performing arts education for 16-18-year-olds.We are on a journey to set the standard for education that truly inspires young people to succeed and helps current and future generations of sports and performing arts professionals to unlock their potential.

We are proud to teach, motivate and develop more than 4,000 learners in real sport and performing arts environments every year nationwide, helping them on their journey to the next steps in their career.

Main Purpose of Position

The Employee Relations Advisor is a role for an experienced and forward-thinking professional who thinks 'beyond HR' but who is also capable of rolling up their sleeves and ensuring operational efficiency, high quality and fair casework and pragmatic, business focused delivery.

You will deliver comprehensive, professional, and business focused operational workforce advice, confidently manage a complex caseload and be independently solution focused, coaching employees/managers on resolution and learning, disciplinaries and attendance, ensuring compliance with employment legislation and internal policies, and aligned with our organisational values.

You will ensure progression of any formal ER cases is both necessary and completed on time, ensuring appropriate support is in place for the individual and witnesses. You will be supporting the wider People function to achieve strategic objectives, thriving in a fast-paced environment with ever changing priorities.

You will be responsible for a range of complex and sensitive cases, as well as working on project-based activities, which include restructures, TUPE, redundancies, policy development and training.

This is a fixed term maternity cover for 12 months with potential for extension.