Employee Relations Specialist

Enjoy a role with a high content of Employee Relations? Enjoy upskilling and training line managers on all things ER?

HRLife are looking to speak to ER focused advisors looking for their next challenge!

Based in Milton Keynes and working as part of a wider, close-knit, supportive HR team, you will be supporting in day-to-day ER issues, utilising your knowledge of employment legislation, policy and best practice to guide and advise and ensure risk is mitigated.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Providing advice to managers for more complex ER cases which will include a range of issues
• Identifying, assessing, managing, resolving and mitigating risk.
• Case management; supporting them through to early conciliation and employment tribunal.
• Creating and delivering face to face and virtual training of HR related matters including Investigations, Disciplinary, Grievance, Appeals and UK Employment Legislation.
• Creating documentation showing 'what good looks like’ for training and development purposes around key HR subjects.
• Ensuring policies and procedures support best ER practice.

Previous experience of working in a multi-site or blue-collar environment is a must, as is a track record of dealing with high volume, complex ER cases. You’ll be:

• Comfortable dealing with complete ER cases, Subject Access Requests, preparing documents for employment tribunals.
• Ideally CIPD level 5 qualified.
• Highly tenacious and resilient, flexible to change in demands.
• Confident in taking ownership of issues to resolution in a timely manner.
• Not shying away from having difficult conversations.
• An excellent communicator able to adapt and build rapport/provide advice to all level.
• An active listener who is naturally inquisitive and able coach people to reach a resolution.

Hybrid working - 3 days office in Milton Keynes, 2 at home