Employee Relations (ER) Advisor

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The Role

Empower the Workforce that Shapes Futures - Join us as Employee Relations Advisor

Are you an experienced HR professional with a real zest for all things ER? If you enjoy working in a team that leads on the implementation of effective, current and people focused employee relations, then this could be exactly the role for you.

We are a large Further Education College Group with six sites across East Kent and a workforce of 1500 staff. As part of our People Services team, you will work within a small team of ER Advisors, working closely with the HR Business Partners across the Group. Your role will be varied across the ER spectrum, having responsibility for full case management of ER including grievance, disciplinary and capability, as well as being our experts in applying case law to our procedures and policies and our leads on ER best practice and risk mitigation.

You will be leading on the analysis of ER data to inform strategies and improvement measures for our Business Units. You must therefore have experience of working with HR metrics to inform actions and be confident in presenting your findings to senior managers.

You will be responsible for risk mitigation with all ER cases, assessing each case for potential risk and providing solutions based on your ER knowledge for mitigating those risks. You will need to be experienced and confident in seeking external legal support and interpreting this information to implement effective solutions.

You will also work in partnership with the team of Senior and HR Business Partners to resolve potential or ongoing conflicts across the Group, as well as working to implement best practice of ER within each of our Business Units.

Our HR policies and procedures are key within our organisation, and you will regularly review these and update in line with case law and research into HR best practice. A thirst for research and continual updating of case law knowledge is certainly a must for this role!

Salary: £35,304 per annum

Contract:

Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus highly on our employees!

Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous and Consistent Holiday Pattern
• Flexible Personal Leave
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks
• Wellbeing and Health Support
• Competitive Pension Scheme

Full list of company benefits

We are looking for applicants who genuinely feel a passion for ER, and who want to use their knowledge and experience to ensure we at EKC Group are the best we can be at supporting our staff to maximise their potential.

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.

EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. The Group's designation as a 'designated establishment' means that all posts within EKC Group are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults;

applicants are therefore advised that appropriate safeguarding checks (including an enhanced DBS check) will be undertaken on all successful applicants; job offers will be made on the basis of satisfactory DBS and other checks, including the receipt of two references. If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

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