Employee Relations and Wellbeing Advisor
Location: Sevenoaks
Salary: £35,500 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week, Hybrid working available (minimum 2 days in the Sevenoaks office) with equipment provided for home working
If you are someone who brings calm, practical support to complex situations, this is your chance to make a real difference-helping managers handle employee relations and wellbeing matters fairly, lawfully, and in line with organisational values.
What you will be doing:
- Provide expert, risk-aware support to managers and colleagues on employee relations (ER) and wellbeing concerns
- Manage a caseload of ER matters end-to-end-logging queries, creating case files and escalating when appropriate
- Monitor sickness and carry out sickness reviews, working closely with Occupational Health
- Support managers with complex sickness absence and health-related capability conversations
- Help resolve conflict by facilitating difficult conversations with empathy and professionalism
- Collaborate across the People Team, supporting Strategic People Partners where needed-particularly in areas such as bids, TUPE and redundancy
- Gather and use ER data to support insight, consistency and continuous improvement
What you will bring:
- CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent experience in a people operations team)
- Strong confidence with HR information and case management systems, alongside Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
- Excellent working relationships skills-able to collaborate confidently and also work independently
- Solid understanding of English and Maths at Level 2
- A proactive, fair-minded approach to managing risk and ensuring consistency
Additional information:
- Permanent role, 37 hours per week
- Salary: up to £35,500 per annum
- Hybrid working available (minimum 2 days in the Brasted office) with equipment provided for home working
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