Job Description
Employee Relations Investigator
Department
Human Resources
Salary
Starting from £38,784, rising to £46,049
Closing date
Wednesday 17 December 2025
This is an opportunity to take on a staff investigator role working alongside a highly skilled, forward-thinking and developmental HR team.
About the role
This role will focus on carrying out high quality investigations into a wide range of issues, including under the Universitys Dignity & Respect Policy, Staff Disciplinary Policy, the Grievance Policy and, where applicable, the Research Misconduct Policy. In doing so, you will ensure that they are carried out in a transparent, rigorous, professional and timely manner, taking into account the wellbeing and safeguarding of all of the parties involved.
You will take the lead responsibility as the investigator in assigned investigations into reports of varying complexity, which will primarily focus on staff respondents, but may, on occasion, include student reporting parties. In this role, you may investigate alone or, on occasion, with support from an HR Advisor or Business Partner.
You will determine if there is a case to answer and, if found, will attend formal hearings and present the disciplinary case and cross examine the respondent staff member.
You will also have the opportunity to contribute to policy development, dev...