Employee Relations Manager

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews, is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Employee Relations Manager to work in York on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Employee Relations Manager job is £47,000 per annum.

Benefits of the role:

• A competitive salary of up to £47,000 per annum
• 33 days of annual leave
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Company Pension
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking
• Nationwide employee staff discounts including eating out and shopping
• Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store

Purpose of the role:

• Lead an organisation-wide employee relations (ER) support service that delivers excellent employee experience in a timely, high-quality and customer-focused way.
• Use your employee relations expertise to lead the ER team and to coach and develop people managers to create and deliver an ER cultural change that promotes early intervention and minimises the number of formal processes.
• Collaborate with people managers, People & OD Business Partners and the Central People functions to develop and deliver employee relations policies and procedures, ER training and ongoing coaching across the whole organisation, with the aim of continually improving employee relations and minimising risk and issues.

Main Duties:

• Lead a team of ER specialists to ensure that ER case management support is delivered across the organisation, ensuring process compliance and in line with agreed procedural timelines.
• Provide advice and guidance to the ER team and to focus personally on the management and resolution of more complex and/or high-risk ER issues.
• Manage the upskilling of all people managers on disciplinary and grievance procedures and their roles and responsibilities.
• Provide clear ongoing guidance to managers on their role and responsibilities within a process.
• Work in accordance with employment law and people policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the development of related people policies and procedures that support the strategic objectives of the organisation and comply with employment law and best practice.
• Report on case volumes, case status and trends via various reports and update People & OD Business Partners on cases within their regions.
• Where ETs arise, draft defence against claims, prepare witness statements and collate bundles and other preparation prior to the hearing.
• Support People & OD Business Partners with restructuring projects, redundancies and TUPE situations where required.
• Ensure that all relevant ER policies and procedures are legally compliant and that any changes are communicated to key stakeholders in advance of any legislative changes.
• Seek to improve processes to ensure that you and your team work effectively and efficiently at all times to minimise the timeframes for all ER cases.

Requirements of the Employee Relations Manager:

• Educated to degree/comparable NVQ level or equivalent
• CIPD qualification (level 7) or working towards
• Proven experience in managing an ER team
• Up to date and in-depth knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice and ability to practically implement
• Ability to identify risks appropriately and to mitigate where possible whilst taking a pragmatic approach
• Significant experience of advising on a wide range of HR matters including all ER issues from disciplinaries and grievances to attendance management
• Substantial experience in dealing with complex case management through to resolution and in employment tribunal case preparation
• Experience in dealing with restructures, redundancy and TUPE situations
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills

Contact:

This Employee Relations Manager job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.