Employee Relations Specialist

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Independent Office for Police Conduct Full time

Job Introduction
The purpose of the role is to lead on providing expert employee relations on organisational change including, restructures (a senior management review and review of support roles), re-organisations, and redundancies. To ensure that effective and productive consultation with staff and trade unions is conducted, as well as supporting leaders and project teams delivering change and transformation.

To lead on individual consultation meetings with staff, including senior managers, impacted by change, and manage any resulting employee relations issues, including grievances. To work with the People Management and Wellbeing team to ensure that redeployment processes are fully exhausted.

We use the Success Profiles recruitment framework, to find out more, please click here.

interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 13 May.

Main Responsibilities
Provide effective leadership to ensure that:

- Organisational change and transformation projects, such as restructures, realignments, and implementation of new technology and processes are effectively delivered.
- Complex casework, such as grievances raised, because of change and transformation are managed promptly and effectively and seek ways to mitigate financial risk and legal recourse.
- Restructure, redeployment, and realignment activities are managed sensitively and in accordance with IOPC policy and employment legislation.
- Consultation with staff is effectively conducted and proposals offered by colleagues are given full consideration by leaders, and support management with providing a written response.
- Support People Business Partners to ensure that our redeployment and realignment processes are fully exhausted to reduce exit costs.
- The People Directorate is represented through membership of the relevant boards, including IOD (Improving Operational Delivery), to provide advice and influence decision making, and ensure the impact on people is fully considered.
- Lead on ensuring that any regulatory redundancy notices (if applicable) are lodged with the appropriate government body in a timely manner.
- The People directorate is always represented appropriately.
- Lead on the creation of new job role profiles for senior managers, following a review of the senior structure, and arrange for job evaluation.
- Ensure regular communication with trade union colleagues so that they are kept up to date with the changes.
- Engage with senior managers and staff impacted by restructures and ensure that they are made aware of their rights and updated on a regular basis.
- Work effectively with change and transformation project teams to ensure that senior managers and staff receive regular communications and updates.
- Develop reports providing updates on organisational change and transformation, for management board and the People & Culture committee.
- Lead on consultation with the recognised trade union, via the Joint Negotiating Committee.
- Work collaboratively with the Director of People and other People Directorate colleagues to ensure that employee relations such as redundancies, redeployment and selection processes comply with HR best practice and employment legislation.

You’ll be an experienced and confident Employee Relations Manager or People Business Partner with exposure to providing expert advice on restructures, and organisational change. You will also have:

- Recent experience of delivering and or advising on change and transformation.
- Experience of providing expert employee relations advice to senior managers / leadership teams.
- Recent experience of managing multiple redundancies.
- Experience of negotiating and consulting with trade unions.
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.

You’ll be able to find full details of the role requirements in the job description on the IOPC website.

The IOPC has a hybrid working arrangement which means staff work in a range of locations including from home. All staff in the People Directorate are required to work from their base office, or another office for business reasons, one day per week.

Due to the nature of this role the post holder will need to travel on a regular basis to the IOPC offices, this means it is likely that you will need to work from an office 1 - 2 days per week.

**_The role requires basic security clearance (BPSS)_**

**Reasonable Adjustments**

The IOPC is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. We are open to providing you with the tools you need to succeed. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, please see below some examples of reasonable adjustments that we can provide:

- Extra time for presentations or interview questions
- Formatting changes such as colours for text or background on written assignments
- Questions presented in writing during interviews

About The Company

The IOPC is the independent police complaints watchdog for Eng

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