Employee Relations Advisor

Assist, develop and support operational links with customers management to represent the service and promote and maintain effective communication and visibility of our service working in a hybrid working environment.

You will support the culture development, as defined in our People and OD strategy, enhancing our commitment to EDI, enabling sound decision- making and helping it be a great place to work and serve our community.

You Assist in HR & OD project work and contribute to the review of procedural systems and processes, alongside providing day to day advice and casework management and you will help us show the impact of our work through reporting, workforce dashboards and compliance, accurate and timely correspondence and record keeping. You will support the delivery of the Employee Relations service, working with our talented team, including restructuring and reorganisations, enabling system and procedural guidelines to be followed

About you

You will have experience of people management and organisational development, the underlying principles and practice and legislative framework and changes. You will have knowledge and understanding of a full range of HR policies, procedures, processes and experience of interpreting and applying these to provide information to managers.

About Us

To assist the delivery of a professional Human Resources Advisory and Policy service through the provision of wide breadth of management and staff support within a customer focussed service, as well as our schools and academies; and/or or other traded partners. To take ownership of enquiries, liaising with customers and suppliers as necessary, seeking responses from HR colleagues and others where required, to ensure any advice/response reflects customer policy and procedures, and legislative requirements and provides an optimum service. To work within a team of Senior ER manager, ER manager, ER advisor and HR apprentice., Hiring managers are encouraged to ensure that their interview panel is diverse, and representative of a range of protected characteristics, to help remove unconscious bias and ensure candidates are treated fairly during the selection process. Some characteristics may not be obvious, but our panels are diverse wherever possible. We have a number of measures in place to inform and support our approach, including mandatory EDI and unconscious bias training for all staff, safer recruitment training for diverse panel members, engaging with our staff networks and encouraging allyship. We are fully committed to removing barriers and enhancing the diversity of our workforce., We are proud to be a diverse and welcoming Borough. Our aim is to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve, and staff feel a sense of belonging. We celebrate and respect differences and appreciate the value of having a diverse workforce. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to thinking differently about disability and taking action to improve how we recruit, retain and develop disabled people. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for a role.

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and inclusive staff networks who help drive our diversity agenda.

We are an accredited London Living Wage Employer and this means that everyone working at the Royal Borough of Kingston, regardless of whether they are permanent employees or third-party contractors and suppliers receive the London Living Wage. The real Living Wage is higher than the government’s minimum, or National Living Wage, and is an independently calculated hourly rate of pay that is based on the actual cost of living.

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As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. We operate hybrid working, a flexible working model which allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week. It enables staff to achieve a work life balance whilst still meeting the needs of the organisation.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)

• Three volunteering days per year in Kingston or Sutton

• Flexible and agile working arrangements

• Comprehensive learning and development programme

• Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres

• Interest free season ticket loans

• Local Government Pension Scheme

• Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

• Zip car scheme

• Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses

• Confidential wellbeing and counselling support

• Subsidised gym membership