Employee Relations Specialist
Job Type: Full-time or part time (minimum 30 hours per week)
Salary: Starting from £55,000 (depending on experience)
Location: South East England (hybrid)
This is a hybrid role where you’ll mainly work from home, with regular travel across the South East (Sussex, London and Kent) for client and internal meetings.
About us
We’re a full-service HR consultancy that partners with clients to help their people and businesses thrive. Sometimes we act as their in‑house HR team, sometimes as an extension of their existing people team — but always as a trusted partner that genuinely cares.
People sit at the heart of every business success story. Our job is to help clients create workplaces where those people can do their best work — even when things get tricky.
What you'll be doing
As an Employee Relations Specialist, you’ll be the person clients turn to when things get complex or sensitive. You’ll bring clarity, fairness and calm confidence to a wide range of ER issues, helping clients navigate situations that really matter.
Here’s a snapshot of what your day-to-day might include:
* Managing and advising on a range of ER cases — grievances, disciplinaries, bullying, harassment, whistleblowing and more.
* Carrying out investigations that are thorough, balanced and evidence-based.
* Supporting clients through restructures, redundancies, consultation processes and other business change exercises.
* Advising on negotiated exits, supporting without‑prejudice conversations and settlement agreement processes.
* Drafting high‑quality ER documentation such as invite letters, outcome letters, and investigation reports.
* Developing, reviewing and updating handbooks, policies and employment contracts.
* Helping clients understand risk — what’s urgent, what’s important and what they need to think about.
About you
You’re an experienced Employee Relations professional who knows your stuff when it comes to employment law, policy development, and complex casework. You bring the perfect mix of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and empathy.
You’ll need:
* Recent experience as ER/HR/People Partner, HR/People Business Partner, or People Advisor/Partner (where ER formed a core part of the role).
* Strong experience managing complex and various ER casework end-to-end.
* Experience drafting and updating policies, handbooks and employment contracts.
* Experience supporting negotiated exits and settlement agreements.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to explain the complex simply.
* Highly organised, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
* Skilled in drafting, reviewing, and implementing policies, handbooks, and contracts.
* Confident supporting organisational change projects such as restructures and redundancies.
* Commercially minded and able to balance compliance with practical advice.
* Tech‑savvy and comfortable using Microsoft Office and digital systems.
* Happy to travel occasionally and hold a full UK driving licence.
Ideally, you’ll be CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent), but what really matters to us is that you bring the practical experience and confidence to deliver great ER advice. Experience working in an HR consultancy would be a bonus.
The Perks
We might be biased, but we think this role is exciting, fun, challenging, and full of opportunities to grow. Because we like to look after our people, here’s what you can look forward to when you join us:
* Competitive salary (starting from £55,000 per annum FTE)
* 25 days’ annual leave to start, rising to 27 after one year and 29 after two years, plus bank holidays
* Career qualifications supported and paid for where relevant with progression and development opportunities
* Monthly homeworking allowance and all equipment provided
* Flexible working patterns to make sure you have a good balance between your work and home life
* Strong internal and external support and a friendly, collaborative team
* Pension scheme options (including salary sacrifice) and 4% employer pension contributions, with a minimum of 4% employee contributions
* Life assurance at four times basic salary
* Shopping discounts platform, flu vaccinations and technology and cycle to work salary sacrifice schemes
* Enhanced family leave
* Twice yearly all staff get‑togethers
* Access to a 24/7 employee assistance programme for emotional and practical support
* A range of other health and wellbeing benefits
* A growing, progressive business with people at its heart
Equal opportunity statement
We really want our workforce to be representative of all sections of society, so we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
How to apply
There are a few stages in our application process which help you get to know us as much as it helps us get to know you. This includes an initial screening stage (a quick call and written assessment), a virtual interview, psychometric testing and a concluding in‑person meeting.
If this sounds like your kind of place, apply now — we can’t wait to hear from you.
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