Interim Senior Employee Relations Advisor

Description:

We are working with an NHS organisation who are seeking to appoint an interim Senior Employee Relations Advisor. This is an interim assignment for 6 months initially and will pay between £175 - £225 per day.

Key responsibilities will include:

Provide an expert corporate employee relations advisory service to managers, modelled extensively around e-access and e-tools, that ensures the organisation becomes and remains an employer and provider of choice;
Ensure that “every conversation is a coaching conversation” when advising managers on employee relations issues.
Provide timely and effective interpretation of developing employment law and local and national NHS HR policy and procedures;
Minimise the risk to the organisation of an increased employee relations workload;
Act as the focal point for managers on all employee relations matters. Providing detailed advice and guidance to managers on the interpretation of organisation policies and procedures and employment legislation;
Work autonomously, manage a mixed case load of Disciplinary, Performance, Grievance and complex sickness absence cases, plus any other relevant employee relations case work as determined by the Employment Relations Manager and/or Deputy Head of Employee Relations;
Review cases that are logged for the Just Culture Panel and assess and advise if the cases should be managed informally or go forward for review by the panel;
Support the Employee Relations helpline rota and take calls and e-mails to advise line managers on a range of employee relations queries;
Extensively review formal outcome letters and management cases/investigation reports;
Advise on Medical cases in line with the disciplinary and capability procedures and in line with specific medical guidance. To support the case manager at formal meetings and hearings;
Support line managers with the fixed-term contract process and ensuring fixed term contracts are ended fairly and robustly. Where appropriate support managers at the formal meeting and review outcome letters.

The ideal candidate will have:

Graduate calibre or person with significant relevant experience;
CIPD or equivalent;
Evidence of continued learning/development;
Developed written and oral communication skills for a variety of formal and informal purposes.
Analytical skills to be able to assess and understand employee relations issues in order that they are resolved in a pragmatic and timely manner;
Experience in providing employee relations advice and support to managers in a large complex organisation with union recognition.

If you are interested in this role, please email me on (url removed) with your latest CV included, along with your availability and expected rate in line with the above.

If you do not receive a response within 72 hours (3 working days) of receipt, please assume that on this particular occasion, your application did not meet the client’s requirements for this specific role