Blackstone Recruitment are working with a large group of SEN Schools who require a temporary Employee Relations Advisor to work with them on intiailly a temp basis for 3 months.
Location: Home based (with one day per week to central office) Some travel to Central Office Services will also be required - office based in Twigworth
Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 dependent upon relevant experience - equivalent day rate will be paid and negotiated for the temp vacancy
Hours: 40 hrs per week
Our client:
Our client are one of the largest providers of SEND educational and care services in the country, supporting over 1,200 children, young people and adults, and employing over 1,500 staff spread across 27 services around England.
They're currently looking for an Employee Relations Advisor to work within the Employee Relations team, support the delivery of an effective and efficient Employee Relations Service across the Group.
The Role:
Effective and fair management of Employee Relations is an essential part of our commitment to providing quality provision and to the overall Engagement and Wellbeing of our Teams. Due to our exciting and continuing growth we are expanding the employee relations team.
Reporting to our Employee Relations Partner and working collaboratively with the Regional HR Business Partners, you will advise and support our Service Leadership teams with people management issues such as unplanned absence, probation, grievance, disciplinary and capability.
Additionally, you will support investigating managers to ensure investigations are robust and carried out in a timely manner, supporting regional HR Administrators to ensure hearing documents (letters, papers for hearing, guidance for Chair) are produced to the appropriate standard.
The role will also give you the opportunity to guide, coach and train line managers in the development of their people management skills.
In collaboration with the wider HR teams, you will also play a key role in the development and maintenance of HR policies, procedures and toolkits and provide support on the delivery of ER projects.
Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of the team when required.
Experience:
Successful candidates need to demonstrate:
* CIPD level 5 qualified or equivalent
* Demonstrable experience of management of ER cases in a complex environment.
* Up to date knowledge of UK employment law, relevant case law and decisions
* High attention to detail and levels of accuracy
* Effective interpersonal skills – both written and verbal
* Ability to coach line managers to enable them to effectively deal with their ER issues
* Ability to build effective and positive relationships with managers across the Group and with external parties such as union representatives
* An understanding of legislative and regulatory frameworks for education and care environments would be an advantage although not essential
Whilst the role is home based, candidates will need the ability to travel regularly to our Central office in Twigworth, Gloucester (once a week), as well as being able to attend our services as and when needed to support ER processes and the development of positive relationships with Service leadership. Whilst driving is not essential and travel can be expensed for public transport, please bear in mind our services are countrywide and some are semi-rural locations.
Please APPLY now or contact Kirsty at Blackstone Recruitment for further information