Strategic Employee Relations Lead

Liverpool City Council; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days holiday

Flexible working (Agile)

LGPS pension scheme

Learning & development opportunities

Health and wellbeing programme

Cycle to Work

Employee volunteering

Medicash

Job summary

Liverpool City Council seeks an Employee Relations Operations Lead to steer a high‑quality service across a major local authority. You will lead Senior Employee Relations Partners and ER Partners, delivering strategic and operational guidance to managers on complex employment matters.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, Legal Services and Trade Unions to drive policy improvements and reduce risk while developing a skilled ER team and ensuring customer‑focused service delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading employee relations services and managing complex, sensitive and high-risk employment matters.
• Experience of leading, developing and motivating HR or employee relations teams.
• Extensive knowledge of employment law, employee relations practice and local government employment issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Employee Relations professionals with direction, coaching and oversight.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership across disciplinary, grievance, attendance, capability, performance, flexible working, redeployment and organisational change matters.
• Drive continuous improvement using performance data and casework intelligence to inform policy and service delivery.

Skills

Employee relations leadership

Stakeholder management

Employment law knowledge

People management

Performance data analysis

Job description

Liverpool City Council seeks an Employee Relations Operations Lead to steer a high‑quality service across a major local authority. You will lead Senior Employee Relations Partners and ER Partners, delivering strategic and operational guidance to managers on complex employment matters.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, Legal Services and Trade Unions to drive policy improvements and reduce risk while developing a skilled ER team and ensuring customer‑focused service delivery.