Employee Relations Advisor
7 months ago
Job Introduction
DAC Beachcroft is looking to appoint an Employee Relations (ER) Advisor into our HR Team based in Bristol or Leeds. This is a fixed term contract opportunity for 6 months.
The role's main focus is to provide both pro-active and re-active expert advice, solutions, coaching and support to managers and colleagues on a range of generalist, more complex people matters across the colleague life cycle.
Although the role will be based in Bristol, the role will support the employee populations across a number of our offices and so travel -may be needed to provide face-to-face support as and when required by the business. The role will be part of a national ER team who report into the ER Lead.
Main Responsibilities
Working closely with management, colleagues and the relevant HR Business Partner to advise on a range of employee relations issues, including but not limited to:
- Providing proactive, consistent and commercially focussed advice and coaching support to develop manager capability, drive a culture of high performance and encourage colleague engagement and well-being.
- Case management to drive the resolution of performance, probation, attendance, disciplinary and grievance issues, ranging from informal discussions, to formal investigations, formal hearings and appeal stages.
- Advising the business and relevant HR Business Partners on the design and end to end implementation of change programmes (e.g. TUPE and redundancies).
- Supporting managers to deal with, or when particularly sensitive sometimes directly manage, complex and long term absence cases.
- Involvement in resolving more complex queries (e.g. benefits, maternity, absence or policy related) which are escalated from the DAC Beachcroft shared services HR Service Desk
- Providing consistent and commercially focussed advice to line managers and colleagues in HR around Employee Relations issues.
- Managing the end to end maternity process.
- Supporting the ER Lead and other HR colleagues in relevant project work and initiatives, for example involvement in ensuring ER policies are relevant for changing business needs.
- Analyse ER data to identify recurring trends and themes and derive insights that help shape relevant programmes and interventions.
- Keeping up to-date in changing employment law landscape and conducting ER training as part of the Learning & Development offering as necessary.
- Dealing with ad-hoc or regular reports, including appropriate analysis of information where required.
- A strong understanding of UK employment legislation and general Employee Relations principles and practices, preferably gained in a similar advisory role.
- Demonstrable experience of handling Employee Relations cases, either within a generalist or specialist role.
- A CIPD qualification, or part qualification, is desirable but not essential.
- Experience of working in a professional services or financial services environment is desirable.
- Great communication skills, the ability to influence and engage colleagues and key stakeholders.
- Ideally of graduate calibre, with minimum 5 GCSE passes including English and Maths (or equivalent).
- Proactive and willing to take ownership of tasks and projects.
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise effectively and deal calmly with the pressure of deadlines and conflicting priorities.
- Team oriented, flexible and enthusiastic with a positive and committed approach.
- Reliable and able to work on own initiative, with good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- A good level of computer literacy including use of Excel, PowerPoint and word is essential.
- Some experience of HR systems and/or administration essential.
About The Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.
We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.
We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.
Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in w
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