Senior Employee Relations Advisor

BBC Group and Public Services; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking two Senior Employee Relations Advisors for fixed-term contracts. The role involves advising managers on employee relations, managing complex cases, and delivering training. Excellent career progression and training opportunities are offered, alongside a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Defined pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience managing a large caseload including complex cases.
• Ability to deliver presentations to Managers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory support to BBC Managers on employee relations.
• Deliver HR services and resolve complex queries.

Skills

UK Employment Law

Interpersonal Skills

Presentation Skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Case Management Software

Job description

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Band: C

Contract details: 2x 6 month FTC/attachment roles - starting ASAP.

Location: Home based with regular weekly travel to BBC bases

Salary: £29,000 - £39,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London weighting may be applicable for this role.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact Reasonable Adjustments . For any general queries, please contact: BBC HR .

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

This role will be mapped on BBC Career Path Framework as Senior HR Advisor.

Job Introduction

Manager Advice is looking for x2 Fixed Term Contract Senior Employee Relations Advisors to join our team. We are a dedicated team offering counsel and support to BBC Managers on matters related to employee relations. You'll serve as the first point of call, addressing a comprehensive array of topics such as DC&G, Health & wellbeing, FTC, Leave, and family matters.

Main Responsibilities

The Role Will

• Perform an advisory/support role in a specialist team and provide this to BBC Managers, including Senior level.
• Use specialist knowledge, data systems and follow clearly defined processes in order to deliver HR services to an agreed SLA.
• Often deliver pre-defined pieces of work, as well as having to answer ad hoc specialist requests as part of a wider specialist team.
• Require Advisors to work independently to resolve complex queries but will also work in partnership as part of a wider specialist team to manage more complex issues and projects.
• Be predominantly a case management role delivered by telephone/on-line, however, you’ll also be involved with delivering training and projects as required.
• Require travel to attend sites throughout the UK for regular weekly and ad hoc meetings.
• Require Senior Advisors deal with complex cases, up to and including ending of contracts where required.
  
  

Are you the right candidate?

As a Senior Advisor You Will Need To

• Have excellent up to date knowledge of UK Employment Law – including Northern Ireland
• Be able to demonstrate experience of managing a large caseload including complex cases up to and including dismissal across a full range of ER matters.
• Be used to delivering presentations to Managers and colleagues across an organisation, ideally on company policy and HR related matters.
• Be a team player, and be comfortable in covering colleagues cases in their absence and actively supporting other Advisors’ development.
• Have previous experience using the full Microsoft Office suite, and data bases or Case Management software – recording all activities and actions on cases to ensure a full audit trail.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, to enable you to quickly build relationships with Managers, Business Partners and key stakeholders to ensure a timely resolution to issues, whilst working remotely and on-site.
• Have empathy, pragmatism and creativity to enable you to see all sides of a situation and seek an appropriate tailored resolution within policy, law and precedent.
  
  

Desirable

• Fluency in written and oral Welsh is desirable but not essential.
  
  

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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