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Employee Relations Manager - Cambridge (Hybrid) - Initial 3 Months
Lorien's Public Sector team is currently supporting the search for an experienced Employee Relations Manager.
This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional with a strong Employee Relations background to support senior leaders across a wide range of complex workforce matters.
The role is initially fully onsite in Cambridge before moving to a hybrid working arrangement. This is an Inside IR35 contract for an initial 3-month term, with likely extensions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert Employee Relations advice and guidance on complex HR casework
- Manage disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence management and performance-related cases
- Support and guide managers through investigations, hearings and appeals
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, policies and HR best practice
- Advise senior stakeholders on complex and sensitive workforce matters
- Build and maintain effective relationships with managers, employee representatives and trade unions
- Support organisational change and workforce transformation initiatives
- Deliver HR training, coaching and development sessions for managers
- Contribute to policy development, review and implementation
- Monitor and assess risks associated with employee relations cases, escalating where appropriate
- Produce reports, management information and workforce data analysis to support decision-making
- Promote a positive employee relations culture across the organisation
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Key Skills & Experience
- Significant Employee Relations experience within a complex organisation
- Strong knowledge of employment law and its practical application
- Experience managing complex disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and capability cases
- CIPD qualified or equivalent HR experience
- Experience advising senior managers and stakeholders on workforce matters
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to manage a varied and demanding caseload independently
- Strong report writing, investigation and case management experience
- Experience designing and delivering management training
- Ability to work autonomously whilst contributing to a wider HR function
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands
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Desirable Experience
- Previous experience within healthcare, public sector or other highly regulated environments
- Experience working within unionised organisations
- Knowledge of complex terms and conditions frameworks
- Experience supporting organisational change and transformation programmes
- Exposure to job evaluation, workforce planning or workforce transformation initiatives
- Experience working within large, multi-site organisations
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