Employee Relations Advisor

HR Advisor Opportunity at UK Power Networks

Are you an experienced HR professional who can provide confident, practical advice on complex people matters? UK Power Networks is looking for an HR Advisor to join the HR Operations team in London, Elephant and Castle. This permanent role offers a salary depending on experience, a 7.5% bonus, and the opportunity to work in a center of excellence supporting managers across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and structured case management support on people policies and procedures, including sickness absence, disciplinary, grievance, performance improvement, discrimination, bullying and harassment, redeployment, and redundancy matters.
• Work closely with managers, Trade Union and employee representatives, HR Business Partners, HR Services, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, Pensions, Legal, and Occupational Health to ensure cases are managed consistently, fairly, and in line with policy.
• Advise on employment law, terms and conditions, HR policy, and procedures, manage casework to agreed timescales, maintain accurate HR system records for reporting, support managers with governance and audit actions, and review employment change requests submitted through My UKPN.
• Monitor sickness absence and poor performance, coach managers through each stage of the relevant process, and support long-term sickness cases with Occupational Health input.
• Play a key role in delivering a responsive HR Operations service, improving manager capability through coaching and workshops, supporting policy and procedure development, contributing to working groups and job evaluation panels where trained, maintaining reporting systems, providing management information, and supporting welfare coordinator or call agent duties during system emergencies.