Employee Relations Partner

7 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom EDF Limited Full time

Aztec West, Bristol, Satellite Delivery Centre, Bridgwater or HPC Site, Bridgwater. Minimum of 3 days in the office per week with some travel between sites required.

Are you **passionate **about **people** and **leadership?** Interested in a career **working with people** and helping them to **thrive?**

**If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to develop your HR career.**

**The Opportunity**

At Hinkley Point C (HPC) we are building two new nuclear reactors, the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK providing low carbon electricity for around six million homes.

We are looking for an **Employee Relations (ER) Partner** to join the HPC project, and play a pivotal role in further developing the expertise and talent within the UK that is vital for both our Hinkley Point C Project and more widely across the EDF Group of companies.

As an ER Partner, you are an integral part of the HR Business Partnering team and wider Employee Relations community, ensuring that employees and managers receive expert and timely advice from first point of contact by providing informal case support through to dismissals and appeals.

You will provide pragmatic advice to managers, discussing options, risks, and resolutions to deliver and meet business need whilst also ensuring the people experience is considered throughout the lifecycle of each case. You will ensure that the advice provided is legally compliant and in line with our employee policies by working with the HR Business Partners and wider Employee Relations community to understand best practice and ensure the information you are providing is correct.

**Pay, benefits and culture**

This role would suit either an experienced ER partner, or someone looking for a development opportunity, and the salary of £36,000 - £52,000 (negotiable depending on experience) reflects this. Alongside salary, we are delighted to offer a variety of flexible benefits to support our people in their everyday lives.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Ensuring that HR advisory activities are delivered with user experience as the primary focus in support of our ambition to make HPC and supporting programmes and functions including EPR Engineering and EPR Programme the best place to work that it can be.
- Building effective working relationships with your stakeholders across the business, including Trade Union representatives, you will provide timely advice and guidance on a wide range of HR practices.
- Assisting managers across the business, aiding them in their understanding and implementation of our policies in relation to your employment case portfolio.
- You will assist managers in organising informal and formal case meeting, where appropriate including providing information and HR advice from initiation to resolution, escalating cases, where appropriate.
- Attending formal case meetings (whether in person or virtually), you will be responsible for taking appropriate notes and preparing relevant outcome documentation.
- Maintaining up to date records and suggesting improvements, you will be proactive in your approach, presenting options for the manager to enact, providing feedback where applicable and appropriate.
- Where there are points and elements of cases which increase risk to the individual and business, you will discuss appropriate action with the HR Business Partner Team and/or Employee Relations team.
- Supporting the wider community, you will provide valuable feedback and insight from your case work to enrich the data used in workshops, training, coaching and guidance to support development and growth.
- Promoting and championing diversity and inclusion as fundamental elements of our culture.

**Who you are**

Your background may include some of the following:

- You have previous experience working in an HR role advising on the management of employment cases, with the ability to interpret our policies, with a good up to date understanding of employment law.
- A strong collaborator, taking an initiative, self-motivated and work well both individually and within teams, connecting with the business keeping stakeholders up to date, informed, whilst always maintaining confidentiality.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders such as Trade Unions, senior leaders, staff and external parties.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with pr

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