Employee Relations Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 226980**Salary**:

- £29,527 - £37,725- plus £1,750 location allowance**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- C4**Contract type**:

- Temporary
- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 12 months**Type of role**:

- Human Resources**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Hanslope, South East England, MK19 7BHAbout the job

**Summary**:

- You’re a Human Resources professional, in the true sense of the word. You’re trusted and experienced in employee relations and you’re well-versed in best-practice people management. Promoting a healthy, diverse and inclusive culture is what you thrive on. So, are you ready to see what more you can do? Join FCDO Services: a diverse organisation offering everything from embassy construction to cyber security to diplomatic deliveries, for governments worldwide.**Job description**:

- Bring casework experience to complex situations
- With colleagues across skillsets and continents, our Employee Relations casework can be complex, but you’re up to the task. As a growing leader, you’ll use your knowledge and experience to inspire a culture of continuous improvement, and develop casework strategies that help us support colleagues and manage financial and reputation risk. Whether it’s employment tribunals, supporting wellbeing, or engaging trade unions, you’ll guide your team to provide a prompt, efficient service.
- Support diversity that takes us all further
- Diversity is always at the forefront of your mind, so you’ll work closely with others to find new ways to foster a healthy, diverse and inclusive workforce. You’ll support in every way you can, whether it’s managing the provision of our Mediation and Harassment Advisor services, raising awareness of our policies and ethical code, or promoting us as an inclusive employer of choice through delivering events, you’ll be active in helping us be more consciously inclusive every day.
- Impact our global network
- This role is your chance to help strengthen the culture at FCDO Services, as well as our positive relationship with our people. Your employee relations expertise will support our workforce. As well as experience of casework, employment law and managing a quality service, you’ll bring your CIPD Level 5 qualification (or equivalent experience) to do the best job you can. In short? It’s your job - bigger.
- It takes a diverse team to protect a diverse world.
- The vital work we do takes an incredible community of colleagues, with different skills, backgrounds, cultures and identities. We support every individual, so that you always know you’re welcome and valued. It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And Employers for Carers. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation.**Responsibilities**:

- Skills- Employee relations;
- Dispute resolution;
- Attendance management;
- Managing poor performance;
- Disciplinary;
- Change management;
- Risk management;
- Incident resolution;
- Analyse, interrogate and evaluate data;
- Interpret professional/technical documents;
- Customer/Supplier relationship management

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience- Extensive employee relations experience and employment law knowledge;
- Project management and organisational change experience;
- Strong influencing and communication skills
- Level 5 CIPD qualification or equivalent experience;

**Benefits**:

- Alpha. This is a defined benefit occupational pension scheme. As your employer we also make a substantial contribution.
- Partnership pension account. This is a stakeholder pension with a contribution from us. How much we pay is based on your age. We pay this regardless of whether you choose to contribute anything. You do not have to contribute but, if you do, we will also match your contributions up to 3% of your pensionable earnings. The contributions are in addition to the age-related employer contribution mentioned above.
- A leave allowance of 25 days per annum
- 9 days per annum public and privilege days

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**Security**:

- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Medical**:
**Selection process details**:

- Shortlisting will be conducted against the Job Specific Skills, Knowledge & Experience outlined in the Role Profile.
- Interviews will be conducted using a mixture of Behaviours and Job Specific questions, psychometric testing, presentation or job specific exercise.
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:

- Open to UK nationals only.**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined