Employee Relations Manager

 

Main characteristics

Location

Ashford, Kent

Company

Eden Brown Synergy

Salary

£30/hour

Employment type

Temporary

Category

Personnel / Recruitment

Job summary

Employee Relations Manager

I am working with a Public Sector Organisation based in Ashford who are looking for an Employee Relations Manager for 3 Months Initially.

The role is full time, to start ASAP and paying up to £30 PAYE per hour.

Job Purpose

The post holder will act as the ER subject matter expert and cultural change agent for employee relations, supporting the Trust to implement and embed a Just Restorative, value's based and person-centred approach to how we manage all areas of employee relations casework feeding into the development of our people managers and HR practitioners.
The post holder will lead the Employee Relationship team, ensuring that concerns and complaints are expertly triaged, and HR Investigations are completed to a high standard in a timely manner and that systems are in place to mitigate conscious and unconscious bias. Duties and Responsibilities

Act as the subject matter expert for employee relations providing input and advice to people managers, ER team, HR and OD team, and mentoring/coaching as necessary.
Ensure the provision of advice and support on all aspects of employee relations including disciplinary, grievance, sickness and absence management, capability, MHPS and employment tribunals.
Ensure the provision of robust timely advice, coaching and support to investigating officers and/or people managers in writing initial assessment and ER reports, and their use at formal hearings.
Manage a caseload of highly complex ER cases, with minimal supervision and provide advice on panels up to and including dismissal.
Support the management of highly complex employment relations cases, including those involving medical staff, providing expert advice on policy, procedure, and technical points of employment law.
Ensure the delivery of robust, balanced, and timely investigations outcomes to serious and/ or complex, misconduct cases, including allegations of bullying, harassment, and discrimination.
Build collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders, including people managers, staff side, staff network leads, Freedom to Speak Up guardians, Occupational Health, and HR colleagues, ensuring flexibility and multiple pathways and points of access to conflict resolution support.
Research, consult, benchmark, draft and implement best practice policies, templates procedures, guidelines, and toolkits in line with employment legislation and organisational requirements.
Develop branding and communication strategies and effectively use a variety of communication channels, and mediums to promote and raise awareness of the employee relations service, tools, policies, guidance, implementation and embedding of the Just Restorative principles into the ER service.
Lead on continuous improvement, practice reflection, peer review and CPD in employee relations for the ER and HRBP team, ensuring appropriate mechanisms and forums are in place to enable this.
Monitor and report on data, and analysis around case themes, outcomes, and delivery against KPIs monthly.
Lead on responding to Employment Tribunal claims, in collaboration with the Deputy Director. Knowledge & Skills

Considerable experience of working in a complex, unionised organisation
Considerable experience of leading and managing a complex and varied Employee Relations case load, including the resolution of complex absence, MHPS, disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and capability cases, including dismissal and appeal.
Experience of writing and implementing HR policies and procedures, facilitating, and managing change in organisational policy /HR practice.
Experience of providing HR advice on formal hearing panels to a high standard.
Extensive experience of working in partnership with Trades Unions
NHS Constitution
Demonstrable knowledge of employment law and HR best practice and how to interpret this.
Thorough understanding and ability to interpret NHS terms and conditions of employment Please only apply for this post if you are an experienced Employee Relations Manager and available to start on no more than a week's notice.

Thank you

Priyanka Sharma(Eden Brown Synergy)

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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