People Relations Specialist

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Peabody Full time

**What we’re looking for**:

- Do you have a strong working knowledge of employment law and HR best practice, including future changes?
- Can you demonstrate an extensive track record of managing employee relations casework, end-to-end?
- Do you hold CIPD Level 3/5 qualification with Associate CIPD status or relevant experience?
- Are you strongly committed to equality, diversity and inclusivity?
- Do you have strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify options and be creative to ensure resolution?

If so, this role is perfect for you

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a People Relations Specialist on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract basis at our Westminster Bridge Road office.

**A bit about the role**:
As a People Relations Specialist, you will manage the coordination of end-to-end employee relations casework, providing a robust, professional, values-based, accurate and timely advisory service in a centre of expertise dedicated to employee relations and wellbeing. This role will be part of a centre of expertise where collaborative team working will be essential to ensure the business receives an efficient employee relations service. Some of the key results for the role include:

- Provide expert advice, support and coaching to managers in respect of the full spectrum of employee relations issues including but not limited to grievance, discipline, capability, and sickness absence.
- Exercise judgement and autonomy in implementing creative, innovative solutions to achieve satisfactory outcomes to employee relations issues, utilising external legal advice where necessary.
- Ensure that all employee relations activity takes account of Peabody’s wellbeing strategy, and that wellbeing data is a key consideration in both case and policy review.
- Establish collaborative and productive working relationships with Peabody’s recognised trade unions and colleague representative groups and networks, ensuring flexibility and multiple pathways to early conflict resolution.
- Undertake basic analysis of employee relations data, uncovering trends, themes, and patterns, presenting these to the strategic partnering team to be considered in the context of business change.
- Ensure an up-to-date knowledge of employment law, caselaw, industry best practice and wider people-related issues.
- This role will require a minimum of 2 days working in the office, one of which will be on a Wednesday._

**A bit about us**:
160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.

The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 104,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

- Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role)
- Up to 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- Family friendly policies
- Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

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