Employee Relations Specialist

Kingswood Group are supporting large professional services firm with the recruitment of an Employee Relations Specialist on a permanent basis.

This role will join a growing ER & Policy team and will lead on ER cases and provide advice and guidance to the business stakeholders. 

This role can be based in Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, or Sheffield and will be a combination of home and office based, with some travel between offices in line with business demand.   

Responsibilities to include:

• Advising on all aspects of managing underperformance, including informal and formal Performance Improvement Plans, hearings, and appeals, and on complex sickness and disability cases. Providing expertise and support to business and HR stakeholders. 
• Proactively leading on all disciplinary, grievance and appeal cases by managing the overall process
• Leading on investigations including creating reports and recommendations
• Delivering 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 
• Coaching, advising and influencing the business on ER issues efficiently and accurately to ensure best practice is consistently applied 
• Maintaining records of case management and tracking, and reporting on this data.
• Create and deliver training on ER Issues to the business 
• Developing best practice ER and constantly keep up to date with employment law and HR policy changes 
• Supporting the Employment Policy team in creating new policies, reviewing existing policies, conducting research to ensure they are market leading, compliant and up to date.
• Leading or supporting on HR ER related projects, as appropriate.

Essential requirements and experience

• CIPD qualification is essential.
• Demonstrated expertise in handling complex employee relations issues with a strong understanding of UK Employment Law
• Proven experience in a similar role, ideally within a professional services environment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to manage senior stakeholders.

If you have a passion for navigating the complexities of employee relations and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we want to hear from you.