Employee Relations Specialist
1 day ago
Watford
About The Role All potential applicants are encouraged to scroll through and read the complete job description before applying. Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. Where will you be working? As an organisation, there is little we dont do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom. Want to come and be a part of it? What will you be doing? • Manage ER cases across multiple case types including disciplinary, grievance, attendance, and performance matter up to and including ACAS Conciliation where necessary, • Coach and guide managers to handle issues confidently and early, • Support managers in the preparation of case materials and outcome documents in high-risk cases, • Maintain accurate case records and progress tracking on the designated CMS (Freshdesk/Oracle), • Communicate or escalate complex or high-risk matters to the Lead ER Specialist or Head of ER Operations, • Support training, briefings and capability-building work, • Support ER Advisor development, • Contribute to the continued development of our Group Policies and Templates Suite through partnership with the Policy and Compliance Team, • ER Projects (from time to time) including supporting TUPE, Union or Redundancy Programmes and issues within assigned business areas, • Settlement agreements (where applicable)What youll bring, • Previous People Business Partner/ER Casework experience (e.g., PBP or experienced ER Advisor), • Practical, steady, and confident communication, • Organised and proactive in progressing cases, • Commercially aligned and can advise on business outcomes (i.e. Settlements) where necessary, • Matched or contributory pension scheme, • Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, • Employee assistance programme, • My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts, • Life assurance, • Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes, • Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave, • Reward and recognition schemeIn addition, this role offers;, • Private health care and health care cash plan for you, • Discretionary bonus scheme, • Were responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet, • Were open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations, • Were together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts #LI-EO1 #MGroupG INDNAT