Employee Relations and Policy Advisor - FTC

Employee Relations and Policy Advisor - FTC

Department : Business Services - Human Resources

Employment Type : Fixed Term Contract

Location : Bristol

Description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Employee Relations (ER) Advisor to play a key role in supporting our people managers and colleagues across the full colleague lifecycle. This is a varied role where you’ll offer expert advice, coaching, and tailored solutions on a wide range of people matters – from day-to-day queries to more complex cases.

You’ll be part of a collaborative national ER team, working together to deliver high-quality, consistent support across the business. The role may also involve providing in-person support where required by the needs of the business.

This role is a fixed-term contract.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with management, colleagues and the relevant HR Business Partner to advise on a range of employee relations issues, including but not limited to :

Employee Relations

• Providing proactive, consistent and commercially focussed advice and coaching support to develop manager capability, drive a culture of high performance and encourage colleague engagement and well-being.
• Case management to drive the resolution of performance, probation, attendance, disciplinary and grievance issues, ranging from informal discussions, to formal investigations, formal hearings and appeal stages.
• Advising the business and relevant HR Business Partners on the design and end to end implementation of change programmes (e.g. TUPE and redundancies).
• Supporting managers to deal with, or when particularly sensitive sometimes directly manage, complex and long term absence cases.
• Involvement in resolving more complex queries (e.g. benefits, maternity, absence or policy related) which are escalated from the HR Operations Team
• Providing consistent and commercially focussed advice to line managers and colleagues in HR around Employee Relations issues.
• Advising managers and colleagues on the Firm’s HR policies and employment best practice as they apply to day to day management of colleagues.
• Providing guidance around the Flex Forward approach to working and managing the formal flexible working application process.
• Supporting the ER Lead and other HR colleagues in relevant project work and initiatives, for example involvement in ensuring ER policies are relevant for changing business needs.
• Analyse ER data to identify recurring trends and themes and derive insights that help shape relevant programmes and interventions.
• Keeping up to-date in changing employment law landscape and conducting ER training as part of the Learning & Development offering as necessary.
• Dealing with ad-hoc or regular reports, including appropriate analysis of information where required.

Policy Development and Implementation

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

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