Employee Relations Advisor

at  Brainkind

MAIN PURPOSE:

To use your employee relations expertise to coach and support people managers in all aspects of employee relations
To provide pragmatic, consistent, and timely advice in accordance with employment law and people policy and procedures to minimise formal cases and resolve cases in a timely and fair way.
To manage the process of internal investigations into complex issues, alleged gross misconduct or serious SOVA (Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults) cases across the organisation.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide advice and case management across the organisation for disciplinary, grievance, and formal capability / performance, long term absence and AWOL issues, working in accordance with employment law, best practice and people policies and procedures.
• To escalate more complex ER cases as necessary to the ER Manager.
• To support the upskilling of all people managers on disciplinary and grievance procedures and their roles and responsibilities within the process.
• To provide clear ongoing guidance to managers on their role and responsibilities within a process.
• To attend formal hearings if and where necessary, to provide advice as required and to support managers to finalise outcomes that are robust.
• To conduct some of the more complex investigations and report the evidence and mitigation to enable relevant personnel to assess and determine a resolution within a defined timescale.
• To prepare thorough, accurate, objective, and concise investigation reports in accordance with the approved format, ensuring that all supporting evidence is complete, and concluding with a recommendation as to whether a disciplinary case should follow.
• To report on case volumes, case status and trends and update People Business Partners on cases within their regions that are more complex or considerable risk in nature.
• Where ETs arise, to support with the collation of bundles and defence against claims.
• To support People Business Partners with restructuring projects, redundancies and TUPE situations where required.

*PLEASE NOTE WE WILL BE SHORTLISTING AND INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES ON A ROLLING BASIS UNTIL THE ROLE IS FILLED THEREFORE, WE RECOMMEND APPLYING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. *

All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.