Employee Relations Advisor - Government

Role: Employee Relations Advisor

Contract Length: 6 months

Location: Hybrid/Exeter – 1 day per week on site

IR35: Inside

Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate

Security Clearance: SC requested

Spinwell is recruiting for an Employee Relations Advisor for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

• Be the Employee Relations expert by nature and lead the ER function – demonstrating best practice ER and task management to the team, constantly keeping up with employment law/wider CPD and policy change, whilst providing complex case escalation (up to Employment Tribunal) and utilising extensive knowledge from vast cross industry ER experience to continuously drive improvement for the service.
• Foster strong and respected working relationships with various stakeholders – including Contract management for OH/EAP services, managing the relationship with the Trade Union (Prospect), ensuring collaborative working across our organisation by supporting development of Line Managers and being better together across our People team and working practices.
• Inspire and deliver continuous service improvement – Drive excellence by being able to multi-task across several key people projects, utilise and understand the importance of people metrics and reporting, be open to change, bring new ideas and championing innovative ways of working.
• Be a passionate People professional – you live and breathe it and are focused on quality, ethical practice enhancing the overall Employee Experience.

• Working at Chartered CIPD or strong evidence of equivalent professional experience in a similar context showing you live and breathe the people profession

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

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As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.