Employee Relations Advisor

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Bank of England Full time

**Employee Relations Advisor - People Directorate**

- **(**010571**)**

**Primary Location** UK-ENG-London

**Job** Human Resources

**Organisation** 121000 - EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

**Job Posting** 13-Mar-2024, 10:33:04 AM

The Bank of England is the UK's central bank. Our mission is to deliver monetary and financial stability for the British people.
The Bank of England is a diverse organisation. Each of its 4,000 plus people are committed to public service and dedicated to promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability.

**The People Directorate**
- The People Directorate is here to shape the Bank’s people strategy, provide information, help and advice to colleagues and line managers to thrive in their roles, and to deliver important people services across the Bank. The directorate is made up of five teams: Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Employee Relations; People Operations; Talent Acquisition and Development, and Reward. Our work helps the Bank to attract, identify, develop, nurture, retain and motivate the people we need to fulfil our mission.

This is an exciting new opportunity to join our friendly People Directorate team at the beginning of a transformation programme to build a modern and professional service as part of the Bank’s Central Services programme - CS 2025.

**Department Overview**
- The Employee Relations team sits within the People Directorate. We work with colleagues and Unite the Union to support effective employee relations and the resolution of workplace issues. This includes using our expertise and experience to ensure that the right people are consulted at the right time with the right advice.
- Our people: We treat all colleagues with respect and dignity and this approach underpins all of our advice, to all staff, regardless of scale or role
- The majority of the ER team have either a CIPD qualification and/or other relevant HR qualifications or experience (e.g. mediation).
- The key responsibilities for the role are:

- Develop strong relationships with and act as point of contact for managers at all levels, including Deputy Governor and provide advice to managers at all levels relating to Employee Relations (ER) and coaching managers where appropriate
- Effectively managing and prioritising a caseload of often complex people-related issues including guiding management and staff during disciplinary processes, and owning end to end management of grievances, business restructures and redundancies, welfare cases and staff disputes. Effective use of Oracle Cloud to input and maintain case information.
- Understanding and where necessary, communicate developments in employment law and practice and advise on appropriate proactive action, including updating and developing policies as directed.
- Advise, guide and support managers at all levels, including Executive Director and Deputy Governor with all matters relating to Employee Relations (ER) coaching managers where appropriate;
- Provide research and support to the Head of ER and/or ER Case Manager (as necessary) on union matters and lead negotiations where required;
- Develop effective relationships with the managers at all levels, including Executive Director and Deputy Governor to promote best practice ER across the Bank of England;
- Monitor developments in employment law and employment practices and advise on appropriate proactive action, including updating policies;
- Provide support across the People & Culture Directorate to Bank-wide change initiatives which have people implications.
- Provide mediation in order to resolve employee disputes.

**Role Requirements**

Minimum Criteria
- Experience working as an Employee Relations Advisor within a corporate organisation, handling a wide and varied caseload
- An ability to analyse information which can be complex and conflicting to provide support to line managers and staff to resolve issues and the ability to balance the weight of evidence, assess the risks to the Bank and recommend courses of action on the back of this
- Ability to liaise and engage with both internal and external legal counsel in order to present cases as clearly and accurately as possible and to limit risk
- Experience of developing workable solutions to complex problems, balancing the policy guidelines with the practicalities of implementation to deliver good outcomes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills - note that written output could also be used in Subject Access Requests (SARs), Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIAs) and any potential or actual litigation therefore accuracy and clarity are essential
- Essential Criteria
- Experience of developing rapport with managers and staff to ensure a full picture can be established in order to reach soundly based recommendations
- Strong personal resilience to deal with complex and sensitive personal cases
- Total discretion and confidentiality when dealing with sensitive staff m

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