Circa £36,000 per annum (dependent on skills & experience)
Hybrid: Peterborough,Huntingdonor Lincoln &Home-working
Full-time and permanent, 37 hours per week
12 monthFixed Term Contract/Secondment
This role provides you with the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base office location could be inPeterborough,HuntingdonorLincoln.
Supporting our People
An opportunity has arisen to join our respected, specialist teamprovidingeffective Employee Relations advice to our businessstakeholders. Youwill report to an Employee Relations Manager and be part of our centre of excellence.
You will be the first point of contact for general queries relating to policy and procedures, providing high quality advice and guidance. In addition, you will provide a professional ER case management service to ensure our business managers deal effectively with their people management issues, in both informal and formal processes, in areas such as absence management, investigations, disciplinaries, flexible working requests, grievances & performance capability.
You will balance best practice with the need to support sound business decisions, whilst building strong working relationships to be able to persuade and reassure managers on a specific course ofaction, ensuringall implications are considered.
As a valued employee,you’llbe entitled to:
1. Full private healthcare with no excess
2. 25days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with theoptionto swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
3. A flexible working culture
4. Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
5. Life Assurance at eight times your salary
6. Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
7. Bonus Scheme
8. Lots of great discounts
9. Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
10. Paid time off whenyou’rephysically and mentally unwell
11. An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family
What does it take to be an Employee Relations Advisor?
12. A graduate or Level 5 CIPD qualified or equivalent HR management qualification or experience isadvantageous
13. Ability to build effective relationships across all business levels
14. A resilient individual who can manage emotional and distressingsituations
15. Previousexperience of caseload management isadvantageous
16. A logical thinker with the ability to problem solve, work to changingtime framesand reactive situations is essential
17. You will need to have ahighattention to detail.
18. The roleisfast-pacedand you will need to be able tomulti-task.
19. Evidence of being proficient in MS Office applications (particularly Word and Excel) and the ability to interpret and analysenumerical/statisticaldata.
20. You will be expected to travel across the AW region.
21. Proven up to date experience of Employment Law knowledge would be an advantage.
Opportunities are open to all suitably qualifiedcandidates.
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.
Closing date:12April 2026
Interview Dates - Week commencing - Monday 20th April
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