A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our newly formed Employee Relations / Investigation Team. You will be responsible for providing high‑quality, expert advice regarding all formal ER matters, ensuring our formal investigations are completed to an excellent standard, in a timely way, consistent with employment legislation and best practice.
Values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
Responsibilities
* Provide advice and guidance for all formal Employee Relations cases, ensuring staff members who are involved in these difficult and challenging processes feel supported.
* Provide expert advice, coaching and training for managers involved in these processes, to ensure we deliver a best‑in‑class ER service, supporting Commissioning Managers, Hearing Chairs and Investigating Officers, to ensure they are confident in undertaking these roles and are clear about their responsibilities.
* Contribute to policy development, implementation, research and review, using an Experience‑Based Co‑Design approach, to ensure we are constantly making improvements in our practice, incorporating feedback from staff and managers involved in these processes, and following best practice guidelines.
* Interpret employment legislation and case law, providing authoritative advice on all ER related issues, ensuring the Trust is prepared in advance of any legislative changes.
* Share learning and recommendations from all formal ER cases with the Senior People Business Partners, to ensure these are implemented and improvements are made, driving a robust approach to data, standardisation, consistency and clarity of approach.
* Identify, monitor and analyse trends within the ER cases, identifying opportunities for improvements to be made, and providing advice on the options available.
* Maintain consistently high professional standards.
The recruitment encourages applications from the widest variety of people, welcoming those from a global majority background, with a disability (visible or not) and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026.
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