Senior Employee Relations Adviser

Are you an experienced ER professional who is at your best when there is plenty to get stuck into?

We are recruiting a Senior Employee Relations Adviser to join a busy HR team at a time of significant activity and change.

This is not a role for someone who wants to sit on the sidelines providing theoretical HR advice. Our client needs a confident, pragmatic ER practitioner who can pick up a case, understand what needs to happen and move it forward.

You will work alongside an experienced HR colleague, sharing a varied ER caseload and supporting managers across the organisation.

You will manage and advise on a broad range of employee relations matters including:

• Grievances and disciplinaries
• Performance and capability
• Short and long-term absence
• Conduct matters
• Complex and sensitive employee issues
• Investigations and formal processes
• Organisational change and consultation where required
• Coaching managers through challenging people situations
• Reviewing and improving HR policies, templates and processes

Initially, there will be plenty of reactive ER work. As additional capacity is created within the team, there should also be the opportunity to become involved in more proactive HR work and improvement projects.

We are particularly interested in someone who has strong hands-on ER experience and is comfortable managing cases independently.

You will need sound knowledge of UK employment law, but equally important is knowing how to apply it practically.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Commercial, pragmatic and solutions focused
• Confident advising and appropriately challenging managers
• Comfortable managing multiple ER cases simultaneously
• Quick to assess situations and determine what needs to happen
• Able to operate without extensive structure or step-by-step guidance
• Highly organised and responsive
• Comfortable working in an evolving environment
• Someone who follows things through and gets them finished

You will probably have worked as a Senior HR Adviser, Senior ER Adviser, Employee Relations Adviser, HR Business Partner or experienced HR Generalist.

Commercial-sector experience would be particularly attractive.

Because there is a genuine opportunity to make a difference.

The environment is busy, fast moving and not everything is wrapped up in perfect processes. There is plenty to do.

For the right HR professional, that is exactly what makes the opportunity interesting.

If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves, solving problems, supporting managers and seeing the impact of your work, we would love to hear from you.

Gray & Associates is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.