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Are you our new Employee Relations Specialist?

Due to our continued expansion, we are excited to be hiring an Employee Relations Specialist to join our team.

We are an award-winning, well-respected HR services consultancy to over two hundred local small and medium-sized businesses. We offer guidance and support to help ensure that businesses get the best from their team and stay on the right side of employment law. Our clients say that we are professional, pragmatic and personable in our approach. We are looking for an Employee Relations Specialist to support one particular client with their high volume, complex employee relations cases.

What are the key responsibilities for the Employee Relations Specialist?

• Developing relationships with the key stakeholders to build trust and gain knowledge and insight into their business and particular challenges.
• Manage a caseload of employee relations issues from start to finish, through a well structured process to ensure timely progression of investigations.
• Liaise directly with our lawyers and insurers where cases proceed to tribunal.
• Support the wider team with employee relations cases, where your caseload allows.
• Develop and implement process improvements to help evolve our approach to ER management in line with changing legislation, employee expectations and commercial pragmatism.
• Update our systems to ensure that our data is accurate and meaningful for effective reporting.
• Facilitate engaging training courses to provide employee relations development where required.

What are the key skills required of the Employee Relations Specialist?

• Exceptional employment law knowledge and understanding of how businesses can mitigate the risk of disputes.
• Significant experience of managing a full range of employee relations issues regarding conduct, performance, absence, discrimination, harassment cases and SOSR, from informal resolution through to tribunals.
• Being friendly and personable is really important. We build strong relationships with our clients as we pride ourselves on being their pragmatic, non-judgemental, trusted business advisor.
• A proven track record of being able to work through complex documentation, with a savvy and keen eye for detail.
• Being a friendly, trusted, supportive team player who brings warmth and integrity is essential

What will you receive in return?

• Salary of £50,000 per annum
• Please note that we are office based as the ability to listen and support each other with ER cases is crucial to our business model
• 37.5 hours per week, 9.00am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday
• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Snack Perks every month
• Life insurance
• Travel insurance for employee and family
• Investment in professional development
• The opportunity to be part of a growing, commercially savvy, well respected and ambitious business.
• Autonomy, flexibility, challenge and plenty of fun along the way.
• If you would like to apply, please send your CV and a cover letter explaining why you are interested in joining us. *Definitely no agencies please*

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Profit sharing

Application question(s):

• Without relocating, are you within 30 minutes commute of KT12 1RZ?

Licence/Certification:

• CIPD Level 5 (minimum) (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person