Senior Employee Relations and Change Specialist

at  The Guide Dogs for The Blind

EXTERNAL JOB ADVERT

The Senior ER and Change Specialist helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by providing a business-focussed Employee Relations (ER) service and person-centred wellbeing focus to managers and staff, enabling employees to be their best selves and contribute fully to the organisation. This role will play a senior role within the ER team, addressing employee concerns, resolving conflicts, and managing organisational change initiatives.
We’re committed to enabling our staff to work where best suits the needs of the individual, their team, and the organisation. We want our staff to flourish and work in environments which maximises their potential and best serves our stakeholders.
For this role you’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. We are looking for you to attend the office at least 2 days per week, the remainder of your week may be spent working from home. For this role your Guide Dogs nominated office will be based either in Reading or our National Centre in Leamington Spa.
We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;

DESIRABLE

• Experience of delivering a proactive ER and Change service in a variety of different sectors would be an advantage
• Experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Strong data analysis skills to track trends in employee relations and wellbeing
• The ability to identify and imbed workplace culture within day-to-day HR activity
  For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
  If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.

HOW TO APPLY

If you have any accessibility needs, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or TATeam@guidedogs.org.uk
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.
As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
Please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or TATeam@guidedogs.org.uk if you require any support with your application.

Please refer the Job description for details