Location: Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Watford
Capability: Corporate Services
Experience Level: Manager
Type: Full Time
Business Area: People & Resourcing
Contract type: Permanent
Employee Relations Manager - Partnership
Base Location: Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester & Watford
Summary of Role Purpose
Reporting to the Head of Employee Relations, with a dotted reporting line into the HR Director in the Partnership Office, the ER Manager - Partnership is accountable for managing end to end Employee Relations activity relating to Partners (salaried and in some instances equity), providing expert, commercially pragmatic ER support and risk based advice.
What will you be doing?
- Be responsible for complex, sensitive and high risk ER cases, providing clear advice, direction, challenge and support
- Coach and advise partner reviewers on performance management approaches (including Reaching Performance Plans), ensuring appropriate documentation and guidance is provided
- Support partners to manage complex sickness absence and health related capability matters, including advising on complex OH referrals and workplace adjustments
- Support the ethics champion and whistleblowing process involving Partners, including conducting initial fact finding, engaging relevant stakeholders and consulting on appropriate resolution or escalation to formal investigation where required
- Drive consistent risk and values based decision making, aligning legal compliance, employee experience and commercial outcomes
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy and professional judgement
- Take a proactive, consultative and pragmatic approach to managing quality and risk in collaboration with senior stakeholders
- Build strong and credible stakeholder partnerships across the business and HR, acting as a trusted advisor and SME
- Ensure accurate and timely case recording and data quality to satisfy our internal governance and regulatory reporting requirements
- Maintain strong external stakeholder relationships (e.g., Occupational Health and other specialist advisors)
- Undertake proactive and regular review of key ER themes and trends across the partnership
What will you need to do it?
- Extensive experience in Employee Relations including with senior level individuals
- Deep knowledge of ER and employment law, with the ability to apply judgement pragmatically
- Proven credibility advising and influencing at a senior level
- Ability to interpret Employment Law and apply commercial decision making to drive outcomes
- Strategic and analytical thinker, with the ability to translate data, insight and trends into clear recommendations and actions
- Experience of working within regulated organisations is desirable
- Experience of working within partnerships is desirable
- Experience of informal dispute resolution and mediation is desirable
Locations
- Birmingham
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Watford