Employee Relations Consultant

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Advise on medical employee relation issues, ensuring that cases are managed in accordance with Maintaining High Professional Standards (MHPS) and Trust Policies. Support and advise wider team members with ER advice relating to sickness and performance cases and initial stages of ER casework designed to encourage reflective practice and develop confidence in decision-making. Act as HR representative on Trust hearing and appeal panels ensuring consistency and appropriateness of recommendations. To guide and support managers in the use of a wide range of ER interventions designed to resolve people-management issues early including process documents, best-practice advice, training, facilitated meetings, mediation and coaching.
To promote a partnership approach with managers and trade unions in decision-making and problem solving. To promote a culture of staff engagement and staff empowerment by confidently influencing and supporting positive decision making in relationship to ER casework. Report on activity and performance data for the ER service and take action to improve the service and remedy any deficiencies as appropriate, including introducing new policy and practice, escalating cases, case learning reviews, identifying issues from casework and embed learning for the managers and wider service. To support and coach managers to ensure we embed people centred policies, toolkits and practices that support a fair, proportionate and compassionate approach to people management.
This will include how we deal with conduct, performance and sickness absence concerns as well as situations involving interpersonal relationships. To undertake routine HR policy reviews to ensure these are people centred, fit for purpose, compliant with legislative changes, aligned to NHS and Trust values and reduce bureaucracy wherever possible. Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time.
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