Employee Relations Advisor

3 weeks ago

Worthing, United Kingdom 279 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

You will be joining a team of Employee Relations Advisors based across 3 locations with hybrid working, providing professional people management advice to managers and staff across the Trust. This will include advising on discipline, grievance, performance and sickness cases and supporting investigations and advising at hearings. This role will have a particular focus on sickness case management.

About You

You will be L5 CIPD qualified or working towards that with good communication skills. You must be able to demonstrate experience of participating in and advising on performance management, investigations and hearings with experience of advising on sickness management. Equally important is enthusiasm for HR with a commitment to learn and a willingness to be flexible in approach.

About Us

It is an exciting time to be joining our Employee Relations team having merged into a new structure earlier this year that will enable us to continue to support managers and staff to deliver excellent patient services throughout Sussex.

Join us at UHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better never stops

At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 75 years.

**Improving lives**: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First. Our mission is summed up by our ‘where better never stops’ motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

**Build a career with us**: As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do

1. Manage a caseload of complex employee relations cases in an advisory capacity ensuring they are handled appropriately and in a timely fashion;
- Prioritise work and follow-up tasks on a daily and ongoing basis, working with the Investigating Manager and other key stakeholders to identify and manage changing priorities;
- Timetable cases so that investigations progress within agreed timescales
- Ensure effective and regular communication with all parties during the investigation process;
3. Support and advise managers dealing with employees with sickness/absence, both long and short
term, including providing, managers with regular sickness absence reports relating to their individual areas in order to achieve a year on year decrease in sickness rates.
4. Support and advise managers with employee discipline, grievance, capability, bullying or harassment situations, including meetings and/or interviews with managers and employees, advising on the conduct of formal investigations and the preparation and content of investigation reports.
5. Attend grievance, disciplinary and capability hearings to advise managers, employees and unions on due process and appropriate decisions and sanctions. Ensure proper records are maintained (taking formal notes when necessary).
6. Participate in the evaluation and grading of posts within the organisation, in accordance with Agenda for Change, and advise managers on the impact of the grading across the wider workforce.
7. Contribute fully within the HR team on the drafting, formulation and implementation of existing and development of new policies and procedures.
9. Undertake and assist with any necessary audits e.g. in accordance with NHSLA and other statutory requirements
10. Develop positive and effective working relationships with senior managers, staff representatives and external agencies.
11. Participate in specific project areas as agreed within the Human Resources Directorate, e.g. Health Work and Wellbeing, Equality and Diversity and to share good practice.
12. Maintain an accurate employee relations database and to provide information as required e.g. corporate report and equal opportunities monitoring.
13. Represent and/or deputise for the Employee Relations Manager as required.
14. Liaise and work with HR colleagues as appropriate to maintain effective communication, ensuring that best practice is shared and developed and to facilita

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