Employee Relations Specialist

I am looking to speak to enthusiastic Employee Relations Specialist looking for their next opportunity – joining a growing ER & Policy Team in Bristol! This role will lead on ER cases and provide consistent and practical specialist employee relations, employment law, and change management advice and guidance to HR and business stakeholders in line with our HR policies and processes.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Advise on all aspects of managing underperformance, including informal and formal Performance Improvement Plans, hearings, and appeals, and on complex sickness and disability cases.
• Proactively lead on all disciplinary, grievance, and appeal cases by managing the overall process, determining roles and responsibilities when other HR/local involved, and engaging external support if needed.
• Lead on investigations including creating reports and recommendations of a high standard, and on redundancy and restructure cases and projects alongside the HR team.
• Deliver high-quality support, advice, and guidance on a wide range of areas including investigations, discipline and grievance hearings, flexible working requests, TUPE, sickness, contractual queries, and policy to ensure good employee relations are maintained.
• Coach, advise, and influence the HR Team, Line Managers, Partners, and Senior Leaders on ER issues efficiently and accurately to ensure best practice is consistently applied across the business.
• Maintain records of case management and tracking, and report on this data.
• Create and deliver training on ER Issues to Partners, Line Managers, and HR Teams.
• Develop best practice ER and constantly keep up to date with employment law and HR policy changes and share this knowledge with the wider HR team.
• Support the Employment Policy team in creating new policies, reviewing existing policies, and conducting research to ensure they are market-leading, compliant, and up to date.
• Lead or support on HR ER related projects, as appropriate.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Deep technical employment policy and employee relations expertise, supported by relevant work experience.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, representing the ER function with professionalism.
• Excellent people management skills and highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise, influence and operate as a coach/mentor to managers and individual members of staff, constructively challenging where necessary.
• Practice of leading, evolving, and driving forward people-related or change projects.
• Collaborative and proactive in seeking opportunities to work with colleagues to co-create solutions that meet the needs of multiple client groups.
• Expert understanding and grasp of how to operate within an environment of multiple HR policies and procedures.
• Well organised with the ability to work to tight deadlines with excellent attention to detail whilst remaining calm.

Benefits:

• Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
• Flexible, hybrid working policy
• Generous bonus scheme
• Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
• Holiday exchange scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.