Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Employee Relations Advisor to work in York on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Employee Relations Advisor job is £32,500 per annum.
Benefits:
- A competitive salary of up to £32,500 per annum, depending on experience.
- 33 days of annual leave.
- Group life assurance coverage.
- Eye care voucher scheme.
- Company pension scheme.
- Recognition through long service and staff awards.
- Nationwide employee discounts, including savings on dining out and shopping.
- Access to the Blue Light Card, offering discounts online and in-store for NHS, emergency services, social care, and armed forces personnel.
Main Duties:
- Offer expert advice and manage cases across the organisation related to disciplinary issues, grievances, formal capability/performance concerns, long-term absences, and AWOL situations, ensuring adherence to employment law, best practices, and company policies.
- Refer more complex employee relations (ER) cases to the ER Manager when necessary.
- Assist in upskilling people managers by providing training on disciplinary and grievance procedures, with a focus on their specific roles and responsibilities.
- Provide continuous and clear guidance to managers on their responsibilities throughout the process.
- Attend formal hearings as needed, offering advice and supporting managers in concluding robust and defensible outcomes.
- Undertake complex investigations, compiling evidence and mitigation to assist relevant personnel in making timely and informed decisions.
- Draft thorough, precise, and objective investigation reports, ensuring all supporting evidence is included and providing recommendations on whether disciplinary action should proceed.
- Monitor and report on case volumes, statuses, and trends, updating People Business Partners on significant or high-risk cases within their regions.
- Assist in the preparation and defence of Employment Tribunal (ET) claims, including organising necessary documentation.
- Support People Business Partners with restructuring projects, redundancies, and TUPE processes when required.
Requirements of the Employee Relations Advisor:
- Educated to degree level, NVQ equivalent, or comparable qualification.
- Demonstrated experience in an HR or Employee Relations (ER) Advisor role.
- Current knowledge of employment law and HR best practices, with the ability to apply them effectively in practical scenarios.
- Proven experience in conducting employment investigations, including those related to grievances, disciplinary actions, and attendance management.
- Expertise in providing advice on a broad range of HR matters, covering all ER issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, and attendance management.
- Experience handling restructures, redundancies, and TUPE processes.
- Ability to review and/or experience in reviewing HR policies and procedures.
Contact:
This Employee Relations Advisor job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
