Employee Relations Specialist

Festival of Work; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-based role

Occasional travel

Job summary

Festival of Work seeks an experienced Employee Relations Specialist to join a national health and social care charity. This full-time, home-based role includes travel. You will deliver expert ER guidance, manage complex cases, and deputise for the ER Manager, ensuring compliant and practical people solutions.

Significant ER experience is essential; employment law knowledge is required with CIPD Level 5 or equivalent, and an additional employment law qualification is desirable.

Qualifications

• Significant demonstrable experience in an employee relations focused role.
• Experience and knowledge of essential employment law.
• Experience across generalist HR remit including ER and learning and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert employee relations advice to managers and employees.
• Manage complex casework including disciplinary and grievance issues.
• Mentor and coach People Advisers and oversee escalations.
• Support line managers up to Senior Management level on ER matters.

Skills

Employee relations

Case management

Advising managers

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Employment law qualification desirable

Job description

Our client, a leading national health and social care Charity now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join their team in the role of Employee Relations Specialist. This is a full time and permanent home-based role, with some occasional travel required, offering a salary of up to £40,000 per annum, plus attractive benefits. As a subject matter expert on all things Employee Relations, this role will ideally suit someone currently working as a Senior HR Advisor or Employee Relations Partner, with complex case work forming a core part of their role, who wants to really hone their ER skills and experience. Reporting to (and deputising for) the Employee Relations Manager, you will use your employee relations expertise to provide creative, practical People solutions and specialist advice to both managers and employees, including the management of complex casework.

Key responsibilities

• Ensuring that People advice provided is in line with organisational policies and procedures, best practice and employment legislation in order to minimise the risk to the organisation
• Acting as a mentor and coach to People Advisers, supporting their growth and ensuring employment law and practice knowledge is consistently up to date
• Acting as the escalation point for contentious complex cases and overseeing the case management of any potential gross misconduct or dismissals, whilst ensuring case work is managed robustly, fairly and in a timely and legally compliant manner
• Supporting line managers with all casework issues of employees up to Senior Management level. This includes formal and informal disciplinary and grievance cases, long-term and intermittent sickness absence management and any welfare concerns raised by employees or their managers of a complex nature
• Managing and organising caseloads, prioritising as appropriate along with reviewing and expediting the overall status of cases with the People Advisers

To be considered

• Significant demonstrable experience in an employee relations focused role
• Experience and knowledge of the essentials of employment law and managing complex employee relations cases
• Experience delivering functional HR expertise across the full generalist remit including recruitment, reward, organisational development, change management, employee engagement, employee relations and learning and development
• CIPD level 5 or equivalent professional qualification, with an employment law qualification being highly desirable