Employee Relations Advisor in Belfast

Overview

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted advisor on a variety of employee relations issues including performance, disciplinary, grievance, absence and flexible working for the HRBP team, and line managers as necessary.
• Providing consistent and commercially focussed advice to the HRBP team around ER issues, including being able to outline and quantify risks.
• Conduct thorough and objective investigations into ER issues, gathering relevant information and conducting interviews as necessary.
• Attendance as HR representative at formal meetings as required including disciplinary, grievance and appeal hearings ensuring fairness at all times.
• Produce carefully considered and accurate correspondence on ER matters such as scripts, emails and formal communication including invites and outcome letters.
• Supporting line managers and HRBPs to manage complex and long-term absence related cases.
• Be able to provide objective feedback for future learnings within the HRBP team and wider firm.
• Liaise with the Employee Relations Manager for necessary support on senior or complex ER issues.
• Supporting the business and HRBPs in implementing change programmes, including restructures, ensuring integrity and minimal disruption throughout the process.

Case Management

• Managing a variety of cases from inception to completion providing guidance to HR colleagues and line managers throughout.
• Continued oversight of the firm’s case management system ensuring cases are being managed both timely and thoroughly and escalating concerns identified.
• Monitoring the case management system for reporting purposes and analysing data to identify themes and trends.
• Liaising with Employee Relations Manager, the General Counsel’s Office and with the support of external employment lawyers in relation to more complex cases.
• Assisting with the management of any employment tribunal claims.

Policy & Project Work

• Assisting in the regular review and updating of firmwide policies to ensure legal compliance, seeking to make improvements to working practices whilst ensuring alignment to the employer and firm values.
• Where required, work with the relevant team on the implementation of new policies and driving forward relevant initiatives.
• Supporting wider HR project work as required and relevant to the role.

Documentation

• Working with the HRBP team and Projects HR Manager to ensure ER policies, processes and precedents are relevant for changing business needs and support the firm wide EVP.
• Ensure all ER letter templates, wider HR templates and associated documentation are kept up to date and held centrally for use by the wider team.
• Provide assistance in contract terms of employment interpretation and guidance.
• Review and update relevant guides and toolkits for the HRBP team on ER matters.

Learning & Development

• Interpreting changing UK employment legislation and providing information and relevant updates for the HR team as appropriate.
• Provide coaching, training and upskilling to the wider HR team and line managers.
• Identify relevant e-learning and review, update and create content for the relevant audience and platform.

Relevant Experience

• Demonstrable experience in an ER advisory capacity, including experience of employment tribunals, complex case work, disability and mental health cases.
• In-depth knowledge of employment law, regulations, and HR policies and practices.
• Experience of working in professional services firms with complex matrix structures preferred.
• Mediation experience desirable.
• At least 3 years of demonstrable experience in an ER advisory capacity, including experience of employment tribunals, complex case work, disability and mental health cases.

Seniority level: Associate

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Human Resources

Industries: Legal Services and Law Practice