Employee Relations Adviser in Edinburgh

The Employee Relations team at Edinburgh Napier University plays a pivotal role in developing and delivering practices to enhance our colleague experience, through supporting and providing advice to managers on complex Employee Relations cases, while ensuring compliance with relevant employment legislation.

We are an ambitious team who actively encourage innovative thinking about how we can do things differently both within the ER, Policy & Advice Team and the wider People Team. We have a new opportunity for an Employee Relations Adviser to join us for 24 months, as part of the ER team, supporting our managers across the University in managing case activity by ensuring the consistent application of our policies and processes.

The Role:

As an Employee Relations Adviser, you will have the opportunity to use your experience within an HR or People team, and your understanding of policy application, to provide professional advice to our managers and employees on the application of people policy, ensuring their understanding of current legislation, best practice approaches and people policy principles.

As someone with strong interpersonal and communication skills, you will have remit to play an active part in building and maintaining relationships with our key stakeholders across the University, including our Trade Union Colleagues, establishing an early intervention/resolution approach to case work. These interactions will also give you a prime opportunity to support, coach and develop managers/senior leaders on case management, to enable confident management decisions.

Having gained some experience in an HR capacity, you will be in an excellent position to ensure the effective management of allocated case activity including absence management, performance management, disciplinaries, grievances and conflict resolution, in line with current policy and legislation, seeing cases through to effective conclusion in line with best practice and legal obligations.

This role also offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of our policy framework and to take part in wider People Team projects, supporting your own professional growth and broadening your HR experience particularly if you're looking to deepen your ER expertise within the Higher Education sector.

What we will need from you:

• Demonstrable experience in Employee Relations casework within an HR/People function
• Strong understanding of people policies, and experience advising managers on their application
• Experience of providing advice to managers and knowledge of case management support
• Experience of advising and coaching managers at all levels on the application of policy and people matters, including the interpretation of employment legislation.
• Experience of prioritising and managing a varied case load.
• Knowledge of current and forthcoming employment legislation.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and influencing skills.

Benefits we offer:

We're committed to providing a supportive, inclusive and flexible working environment. Our benefits include:

• A minimum of 41 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• 17.6% employer pension contribution
• Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
• Professional development and progression pathways

Salary: £31,236 - £37,694 per annum (depending on experience)

Contract: Fixed Term, Full time (24 months)

Hours: Full Time 35 hours per week

Additional information:

Interviews: 1st of May - face to face interviews at Sighthill. On this occasion, the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship or visa support for this role. International applicants will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

The University is committed to inclusion, demonstrated through our work in respect of our diversity awards and accreditations and hold Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champion status. We are a flexible Employer.